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Chapter1 Introducing Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Release 5.3
Features and Benefits of CiscoM eetingPlace 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 an d voice conferences and the video
conference hosted on the CiscoIPVC 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 VTAdvantage. 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 establ ishes 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 o n both the Cisco Mee tingPlace 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 Chapter2,
“Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Components and Process.”
Features and Benefits of Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Cisco MeetingPlace VideoIntegration 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 CiscoIPVC MCU and networking and
telephony infrastructure, such as CiscoCallManager, to provide a complete and unified multipoint
conferencing solution for Cisco customers.
•Extends important resource management tools from Cisc o 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:
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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.
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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.
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User profiles to limit use of conferencing resources to designated meeting schedulers and
groups.
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Statistics on video usage that are included in standard Cisco MeetingPlace reports, so you can
easily evaluate needs and manage all resources.