Chapter 1 Introducing Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Release 5.3

Features and Benefits of Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration

4.At the scheduled meeting time, invitees use the information in the meeting notification to join each aspect of the conference: the Cisco MeetingPlace web and voice conferences and the video conference hosted on the Cisco IPVC MCU. Video participants attend the video aspect of the conference via a room-based video system or via IP video cameras on their desktop, such as Cisco VT Advantage. Participants can join the different media using any of several methods.

5.Cisco MeetingPlace initiates the voice conference on the Cisco MeetingPlace system and the video conference on the Cisco IPVC MCU, and establishes the link that joins the audio of the video conference with the audio of the voice conference.

6.After participants are in the integrated conference, audio-only and video participants can converse seamlessly with each other. Video participants can control their audio and video transmission and display from within the Cisco MeetingPlace web-conferencing meeting room.

7.If the conference needs to continue past the time it was scheduled to end, Cisco MeetingPlace evaluates whether conferencing resources are available on both the Cisco MeetingPlace audio server and on the Cisco IPVC MCU, then determines whether the conference can be extended.

Video conferences can also be added to an existing Cisco MeetingPlace conference on an ad-hoc basis, if resources are available.

For details about the end user experience and process for using Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration, see Chapter 5, “Using Cisco MeetingPlace Video Conferencing” and Chapter 2,

“Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Components and Process.”

Features and Benefits of Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration

Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration offers the following features:

Enhances meeting effectiveness by bringing together multiple media to create a rich-media conferencing environment.

Offers a solution that integrates readily into existing networks and IP infrastructure.

Includes tools to manage video-conferencing resources for optimal availability.

Simplifies the processes of scheduling, distributing notifications, attending, and participating in multiple media for end users.

Leverages the existing video-conferencing capability of the Cisco IPVC MCU and networking and telephony infrastructure, such as Cisco CallManager, to provide a complete and unified multipoint conferencing solution for Cisco customers.

Extends important resource management tools from Cisco MeetingPlace to the Cisco IPVC MCU, allowing you to plan, allocate, and measure resource use, and thus to maximize the utility of video-conferencing resources.

Resource management features include the following:

The ability to schedule video-conferencing resources in advance. Cisco MeetingPlace manages the scheduling of video-conferencing resources on the Cisco IPVC MCU, which does not have built-in scheduling functionality.

Floater and overbook ports to optimize port availability and minimize waste of conference ports. This increases the availability of conference ports for ad-hoc video conferences.

User profiles to limit use of conferencing resources to designated meeting schedulers and groups.

Statistics on video usage that are included in standard Cisco MeetingPlace reports, so you can easily evaluate needs and manage all resources.

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