Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Installation Guide

Extended echo cancellation 
limit for line echoes

Previous releases of MeetingPlace provided echo cancellation per port 
for up to 128ms of line echo. With this release, in specific IP 
deployments where the line echo exceeds the current limit, you may 
extend this to up to 350ms of echo tail. This option is configurable only 
through Cisco

 

Customer Support. For details, contact your Cisco

 

customer support representative.

Single Number Access for 
reservationless SIP 
deployments

For enterprise-wide deployment of reservationless meetings, you can 
easily require multiple 8112 or 8106 systems to support your 
conferencing volume. In previous releases of MeetingPlace, each 8112 
system required a different access phone number. The new Single 
Number Access feature allows participants to dial a single phone 
number for all their meetings, regardless of their location, even when 
multiple 8112 or 8106 servers are deployed. If a meeting is located on a 
different server, the participant is transferred through IP to the 
appropriate server to attend. (For more information, see Chapter 9 of 
the Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 System Manager’s Guide.)

This feature is available only in all-IP environments using the 

SIP call control protocol, and is not available for T1, T1-PRI, or E1 
deployments.

Reservationless meeting 
access configuration by profile

Previously, reservationless meetings were set up system wide, and then 
all profile users of the system could use the feature. In this release, in 
addition to system-wide access, system managers can designate certain 
groups of users to have reservationless meeting access through their 
profile and group settings. (For more information, see Chapter 9 of the 
Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 System Manager’s Guide.)

Profiles with greater than nine 
characters can initiate 
reservationless meetings

In previous releases, profiles with greater than nine characters could 
not use reservationless meetings. This restriction has been removed by 
extending the Meeting ID field length to match the length of a profile 
field. (For more information, see Chapter 9 of the Cisco MeetingPlace 
Audio Server 5.2 System Manager’s Guide.)

Multi Access Blade MA-4

A new access blade is now available for smaller E1, T1-PRI, or IP 
deployments—the Multi Access Blade MA-4. While the MA-16 
supports up to 480 ports per blade, the MA-4 supports up to 120 access 
ports of either E1, T1-PRI, or IP configuration.

CD-ROM for MeetingPlace 
8112 and 8106 systems

All software upgrades are now provided on a CD, and all systems must 
be upgraded with a CD-ROM drive.

The MeetingPlace 8112 Audio Server 5.2 no longer 

supports a tape drive. Before you upgrade to the 5.2 software from 
version 5.1.0 or earlier, you must have the tape drive replaced with the 
CD-ROM drive. (See the Important note on 

.) For more 

information, contact your Cisco

 

customer support representative.