Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 manual Deployment Architecture 2 RealConnect Cascaded Conferences

Appendix H - Deployment Into Microsoft Environments

Deployment Architecture 2 - RealConnect Cascaded Conferences

Cascaded VMR Participants (Lync 2013 clients) connect to a conference on a Microsoft AVMCU which is cascaded with a Collaboration Server that is paired with a DMA.

With this deployment architecture, participants connecting to the conference by way of the Collaboration Server are referred to as Cascaded VMR Participants.

●Lync clients connect to the Lync 2013 AVMCU in either ad hoc or scheduled scenarios.

●The Cascaded VMR connects as a Lync client to the AVMCU.

The Collaboration Server utilizes the SVC Codec’s Temporal Scaling capability to send up to three simulcast video streams of different resolutions, of the current speaker to the AVMCU.

●The Collaboration Server receives media from up to five different Lync clients from the AVMCU.

●Lync clients experience a Microsoft Point to Point conference with Cascaded VMR Participants appearing as Lync clients.

●Cascaded VMR Participants experience a conference with Polycom video layouts.

●Lync clients will see the active speaker from the Cascaded VMR while Cascaded VMR Participants will see up to 5 Lync clients in addition to other participants.

●Lync 2013 clients, connected by means of the Lync AVMCU, in point to point calls, can connect to Collaboration Server VMR participants by escalating the Lync call to a multipoint conference, including the Collaboration Server VMR meeting room and its participants.

The Contact List can be used to select participants followed by, right-clicking and selecting Start a Video Call.

An ad-hoc (Meet Now) Lync conference can be started; a drag-and-drop operation can then be used in the Contact List to add a Cascaded VMR to the conference.

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