Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Directory Services Maintenance Manual

Latitude Communications MeetingPlace Directory Services System Manager’s Guide

Getting Started—A 

MeetingPlace 

Overview

This chapter provides you with an overview of how MeetingPlace 
works and integrates with your organization’s network. This 
chapter also provides information about MeetingTime and the 
MeetingPlace gateway options.

MeetingPlace uses your organization’s existing IP-based         
and/or telephony infrastructure to provide voice and web 
conferencing using Cisco IP and standard PSTN phones.

MeetingPlace can also integrate with your organization’s 
standard business applications, such as e-mail and fax. To 
facilitate integration with these resources, system options are 
installed on a Windows-based server that communicates with 
MeetingPlace over your network.

To facilitate advanced user interfaces and integration with other 
shared network resources, the MeetingPlace conference server 
also connects to your Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area 
Network (WAN). The conference server communicates with 
MeetingPlace desktop software products to facilitate integration 
with other network resources.

Figure 2-1 displays how the entire MeetingPlace family 
integrates with your organization’s network.