Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Installation Guide

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Cisco MeetingServer 5.1 Installation Planning Guide  
 
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Cisco Systems 
                                  
March 2003 
Travan-NS 20 Cleaning Cartridge
A cleaning cartridge for use with the 
Travan-NS tape drive. The head of the tape drive should be cleaned 
approximately once a month. 
MeetingPlace Smart Blades
Components required to provide physical 
connectivity to your telephone network.  
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Smart Blade
The Smart Blade is Latitude’s proprietary high 
performance conferencing card. It provides digital signal processing 
to ensure the highest voice quality as well as superior conferencing 
functions. 
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T1 Smart Blade
The T1 Smart Blade enhances the Smart Blade by 
adding T1 PSTN connectivity directly to the card.  
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IP Access Blade
The IP Access Blade enhances the Smart Blade by 
including the necessary Ethernet interface for IP-based telephony. 
The IP Access Blade supports both the G.711 and H.323 telephony 
protocols. MeetingPlace IP is required for full functionality. 
Multi-Access Blade
Includes the necessary trunk interface card 
functionality for T1 ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI) and E1 digital 
telephony. For T1 PRI, the Multi-Access Blade supports AT&T, Bell, and 
Nortel protocols. For E1, the Multi-Access Blade supports Euro ISDN and 
QSIG protocols. Each Multi-Access Blade requires at least one Smart Blade. 
The Multi-Access Blade supports up to 16 spans. 
Break out Box and Cables
The break out box provides a standard RJ-45 
telephony interface for E1/T1 PRI systems. It will interface to a maximum of 
16 cables. There will be 16 cables shipped with each Multi-Access Blade 
(MA-16) and two Trunk Interface Cables (with Telco 50 connectors) to 
connect each MA-16 to the break out box. 
Each MeetingPlace M3 server comes equipped with 12 Smart Blade slots. 
Each T1 Smart Blade holds 96 PSTN access ports; each IP Access Blade 
holds 48 IP access ports.  
 
Note: Since IP Access Blades do not provide conferencing capability, IP 
telephony requires the pairing of two IP Access Blades with a Smart 
Blade. 
System Database Disks
The system incorporates two 36-gigabyte hard 
drives for MeetingPlace server software and the system database. Space is 
allocated equally on each drive, resulting in an extra database and system 
space as follows: