Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 manual Deployment Architectures

Appendix I - Polycom Open Collaboration Network (POCN)

Deployment Architectures

The following multipoint topologies are given as examples. Actual deployments will depend on user requirements and available infrastructure:

●Single company with Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure

CTS and Polycom Telepresence Rooms in a corporate environment.

●Company to company via Service Provider

Model 1: Mixed Polycom and Cisco infrastructure at one of the companies, Cisco only infrastructure at the other.

Model 2: Polycom only infrastructure at one of the companies, Cisco only infrastructure at the other.

Single Company Model - Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure

The deployment architecture in Single company with Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure - Polycom endpoints using SIP shows a company that has a mixture of Polycom and Cisco endpoints, room systems and telephony equipment that needs to enable multipoint calls between all its video and audio endpoints using the Collaboration Server as the conference bridge.

As shown in Single company with Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure - Polycom endpoints using SIP, Cisco Telepresence endpoints can connect to conferences using the TIP protocol, Polycom endpoints connected to the same conferences using SIP protocol.

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