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Chapter 3 Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing for a Segmented Meeting Access

About Segmented Meeting Access

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing supports two SMA configurations, which you can decide upon during the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing installation. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.”

About the SMA-1S Configuration

Note For system requirements, see the “Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server Requirements” section of the Release Notes for your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing release. New installations of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 require a Cisco MCS.

In a Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server (SMA-1S) configuration, a single web server is placed in a network segment, such as a demilitarized zone (DMZ), and two websites provide access to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing. One of the sites is only accessible from behind the firewall. The other is accessible from inside or outside the firewall.

While internal users have access to the full-access Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing user interface, external users have limited access to an attend-only web page that only allows attendance to external meetings.

The benefits of this configuration are cost effectiveness, since you only require one web server, and a moderate level of security. However, this configuration is more complex to deploy than the Segmented Meeting Access-2 Servers (SMA-2S) configuration and involves setting up virtual websites. It also requires a segmented DNS for a single click-to-attend notification link. If you want to maintain a single click-to-attend link, more DNS work is required.

Figure 3-1 Segmented Meeting Access - 1 Server Configuration

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