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Chapter2 Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Components and Process
Overview of Components
Cisco MeetingPlace
Web Conferencing
•Displays a user interface to schedule and attend meetings.
•Displays video participant status.
•Provides the web-conferencing meeting room from whic h users can join
and control video conferences.
•Includes components that enable the Cisco Meet ingPlace audio server to
communicate with CiscoMeetingPlace Video Integration.
Cisco MeetingPlace
for Outlook
(Optional)
•Presents a convenient scheduling interface to end users.
•Provides meeting notifications that offer users two ways to “click to attend”
video, voice, and web conferences.
Cisco MeetingPlace
for Lotus Notes
(Optional)
•Schedule and attend Cisco MeetingPlace meetings that include video
directly from the Lotus Notes environment.
Cisco IPVCMCU •Processes the video streams to provide the vide o capability of the system.
•Communicates with the video endpoints.
H.323 gatekeeper •Routes calls between the video endpoints and the Cisco IPVC MCU, based
on the number dialed.
•Handles the IP protocol signaling.
Cisco IPVC PRI
Gateway (Optional)
•Enables H.320 video endpoints to participate in video conferences on the
Cisco IPVC MCU.
Cisco MeetingPlace
Video Integration
•Monitors the configuration of the Cisco IPVC MCU and passes current
status to the Cisco MeetingPlace audio server.
•Authorizes the Cisco IPVC MCU to create and initiate video conferences.
•Initiates the creation of the audio channel between the CiscoIPVC MCU
and the Cisco MeetingPlace audio server.
•Passes information between the CiscoMeetingPlace audio server and the
Cisco IPVC MCU.
•Coordinates capacity by transmitting meeting scheduling, initiation, and
termination information between the various components.
•Controls the behavior of the Cisco IPVC MCU based on meeting type and
requests placed via the Cisco MeetingPlace web-conferencing meeting
room.
•Controls entry of participants into video conf erences, based on the number
of video ports scheduled on the Cisco Meet ingPlace audio server for the
conference, plus available video floater and video overboo k ports, if any.
•Tells the CiscoIPVC MCU when to terminate conferences.
•Keeps track of information for all conference participants in the
Cisco IPVC MCU and their corresponding particip ant IDs assigned by the
Cisco MeetingPlace audio server.
•Monitors the link between the Cisco MeetingPlace audio server and the
Cisco IPVC MCU and supports recovery if the connection is lost.
Table2-1 Components Needed to Integrate Video Conferencing in Cisco MeetingPlace (continued)
Component Functions