Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 Cisco TIP Support, Lync 2013 Participant Monitoring, Mainandinslave

Appendix H - Deployment Into Microsoft Environments

Cisco TIP Support

Polycom’s solution that allows the Collaboration Server to natively inter-operate with Cisco TelePresence Systems using Cisco TIP protocol is supported.

MLA (Multipoint Layout Application) is required for managing Cisco TelePresence layouts (whether Polycom ITP Systems are deployed or not. MLA is a Windows® application that allows conference administrators to configure and control video layouts for multipoint calls involving Polycom Immersive Telepresence (ITP) systems. For more information see the Polycom® Multipoint Layout Application (MLA) User’s Guide for Use with Polycom Telepresence Solutions.

System behavior can be controlled by adding the MS_AV_MCU_ MONITORING System Flag and setting its value accordingly as summarized in the following table.

System Behavior by MS_AV_MCU_MONITORING System Flag Value and MLA Mode

MS_AV_MCU_MONITORING	MLA Mode	Collaboration Server Side	Lync 2013 AVMCU Side
MAIN_AND_IN_SLAVE	Room Switch	Sees the AVMCU current speaker.
		Sees all connected Lync Clients in
(Default)	CP Layout
		the layout.
NO	Room Switch	Sees a Lync Client which may or	Sees the Collaboration
(Not recommended)	CP Layout	may not be the current speaker.
			Server hosted current
			speaker in a 1x1 layout.
	Room Switch	Sees the Lync 2013 AVMCU
		current speaker.
YES
	CP Layout	Sees cascaded slave Lync 2013
	(Not	AVMCU s as empty cells in the
	recommended)	layout.

For more information see Collaboration With Cisco’s Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) and Collaboration with Microsoft and Cisco.

Lync 2013 Participant Monitoring

Lync Clients connected to a conference using the Collaboration Server Hosted architecture will experience normal monitoring, with the addition of the MS SVC codec.

Lync Clients connected to a conference using a Lync 2013 AVMCU Cascade link will be monitored as a single participant. In the Conference list the Lync 2013 AVMCU is listed as Lync AVMCU_x, where x is an incrementing number, should multiple conferences be connected using Lync 2013 AVMCU Cascade links.

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