Polycom 3725-77601-001H Polycom CMA System Overview, Polycom CMA System Features and Capabilities

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Polycom® CMA® System Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Polycom® Converged Management

Application™ (CMA®) system and includes these topics:

•Polycom CMA System Features and Capabilities

•Polycom CMA System Models

•Minimum System Requirements

•Working in the Polycom CMA System

Polycom CMA System Features and Capabilities

The CMA system is an integrated scheduling and device management platform for video conferencing that can include these features:

•The Polycom CMA Desktop client for Windows and MAC operating systems—an easy-to-use video and audio conferencing application that lets your users see and hear the people they call on their desktop system.

•Automatic provisioning for dynamically-managed endpoint systems and scheduled provisioning for standardly-managed and legacy endpoints.

•Automatic softupdates for dynamically-managed endpoint systems and scheduled softupdates for standardly-managed and legacy endpoints.

•On-demand conferencing using embedded MCUs or external MCUs.

•Conference scheduling via the CMA system Web Scheduler or the optional Polycom Scheduling Plugins for Microsoft® Outlook® or IBM® Lotus® Notes.®

•Advanced routing to distribute audio and video calls across multiple conferencing platforms (MCUs), creating a single seamless resource pool.

•Firewall management capabilities which enable videoconferencing across firewalls.

•Gatekeeper as well as alternate and neighboring gatekeeper functionality.

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