Chapter 8 Interoperability with Legacy Video Conferencing Devices

Overview

mixes the G.711 channels for all CTS endpoints into a single G.711 audio and switches CIF and G.711 to CUVC. As the dominant audio segment changes throughout the meeting, CTMS switches the CIF video stream accordingly. Audio-only participants on the CUVC side can join directly into the CUVC.

Figure 8-1 Cisco TelePresence Interoperability: From CTS/CTMS to CUVC

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As shown in Figure 8-2, audio and video coming from CUVC to CTMS is switched to all CTS endpoints when the audio coming from CUVC is deemed to be the most dominant segment. The CIF image from CUVC is presented on the left screen of each CTS-3000 surrounded by black borders. With the CTS-1000, the CIF image is displayed when CTMS senses that the CUVC participant is the active speaker. The incoming 352x288 CIF image is stretched to 4CIF when displayed on either the CTS-1000 or CTS3000 high-definition plasma screen.

Note If you wish to see more than one CUVC participant displayed at one time, you can customize the CUVC MCU layout configuration to display up to 16 CUVC participants. We recommend the 1x1 layout for consistency with the Telepresence experience.

 

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MCS 7800 Series specifications

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