Polycom EDOC2501b manual Overview, Scope of This Document

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Overview

About the Polycom® RealPresence® SVC-Based Conferencing Solutions Deployment Guide

This guide describes the Polycom® RealPresence® SVC-based conferencing solution. This guide provides an overview of SVC-based conferences and the steps required to configure and use the SVC conferencing solution to add real-time, on-demand multipoint video SVC conferencing to your environment.

Scope of This Document

This document provides you with the solution overview and how to configure the Polycom components for SVC-based conferencing solution to embed it into your environment.

This chapter, “Overview” includes the description of the following topics:

•"Scope of This Document”

•"Intended Audience”

•"Acronym Definitions”

Chapter 2, “Solution Overview,” describes the Polycom SVC conferencing solution and includes the following topics:

•"SVC Conferencing Overview”

•"Using the SVC-Based Conferencing Solution”

•"Using SVC-Enabled Endpoints in a Mixed AVC and SVC Conference”

Chapter 3, “SVC System Architecture”, describes the SVC solution system design and the Polycom components that are deployed for SVC-based conferencing. This chapter includes the following topics:

•"System Architecture for Enterprise Deployment”

•"Polycom System Environment Components”

•"A Typical SVC-Based Conference Deployment Scenario”

•"Supported Features in the RealPresence Collaboration Server”

Chapter 4, “Configuration”, details the configuration procedures for the Polycom components using the SVC-based conferencing solution. This chapter includes the following topics:

•"Configuring the RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) for SVC Only Conferences”

•"Configuring the RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s for SVC Only Conferences”

•"Configuring a Mixed CP (AVC) and SVC Conference on the RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s”

•"Configuring the RealPresence Virtualization Manager (DMA)”

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