Polycom DOC2230A manual MGC Unit Main Features

Chapter 1 - Before You Begin

MGC Unit Main Features

The MGC unit offers the following features:

•Supports a large number of ports (48 for the MGC-50, 96 for the MGC- 100) running at 128 Kbps

•Universal slots, telco grade high availability with hot-swappable modules, redundancy, on-line upgrading and dynamic resource allocation

•Support for standard network interfaces (ISDN, ATM, T1-CAS, LAN and V.35 serial) for the easy integration of conference elements into external network management and billing systems

•Support for up to 16 operator workstations (PCs) connected to either a local or remote MCU; each operator workstation can be connected to several MGC units

•Multirate conferencing and Transcoding (audio and video, including high bit rate video and data bit rate conversion)

•Channel aggregation according to H.221, BONDING and Multirate (H0)

•Automatic rate detection upon endpoint connection to the conference

•H.320/H.323 video, T.120 data and Greet and Guide conferencing

•Quality of Service for IP networks

•Enhanced Continuous Presence (multi-image video)

•Ad Hoc conferencing

•IVR (Interactive Voice Response)

•Windows 95®/Windows 98®/Windows NT®/Windows 2000®/ Windows XP® based operator station

•Multiple operators per conference

•Multiple conferences and MCUs per operator

•TCP/IP - LAN - Internet access

•Supports serial communication (V.35/RS-530/RS-449) (optional)

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