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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 3545 PRI Gateway and 3545 Serial Gateway Release 5.5
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Chapter1 Functionality
About CiscoUnified Videoconferencing 3545 Gateway Applications and Topologies
About Conferencing via Leased Lines

The serial gateway enables conferencing between H.323 endpoints on IP networks connected via a

leased line (as shown in Figure 1-8).

Figure 1-8 Conferencing via Leased Lines
About IP-to-Legacy MCU Conferencing

The serial gateway provides an IP-to-serial interface for communication with legacy MCU equipment

(as shown in Figure 1-9).

Figure 1-9 IP-to-Serial Interface Communication via Legacy MCU
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