Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Installation Guide

MeetingPlace Smart Blades

Components required to provide physical connectivity to your telephone 
network. They include the following:

• Smart Blade. The Cisco proprietary high performance conferencing 

card. It provides digital signal processing to ensure the highest voice 
quality as well as superior conferencing functions.

• T1 Smart Blade. The Cisco proprietary high performance 

conferencing card. It provides digital signal processing to ensure the 
highest voice quality and superior conferencing functions. This Smart 
Blade also provides the ability to connect up to 4 T1 spans (96 phone 
calls) using E&M Wink Start, Loop-Start, and Ground-Start call 
supervision.

• MA-4 card (AudioCodes TP1610 Ultralite). Provides 4 spans of T1 or 

E1 PRI or 120 VoIP ports

• MA-16 card (AudioCodes TP1610). Provides 16 spans of T1 or E1 

PRI or 480 VoIP ports.  Needed only for ISDN and/or VoIP 
connectivity. Can provide either T1/E1 PRI connectivity or VoIP 
connectivity. These Multi Access Blades enhance the Smart Blade by 
including the necessary Ethernet interface for IP-based telephony. 
MeetingPlace IP Gateway is required for full functionality.

Breakout box and cables

The breakout box provides a standard RJ-45 telephony interface for E1 
and T1 PRI systems. It interfaces to a maximum of 16 cables. For each 
MA-16 shipped with the 8106 server, 16 telephony cables and two trunk 
interface cables (50-pin Amphenol connectors) are included to connect 
each MA-16 to the breakout box; for each MA-4 shipped with the 8106 
server, four telephony cables and one trunk interface cable (50-pin 
Amphenol connector) are included to connect each MA-4 to the breakout 
box.

Each MeetingPlace 8106 server comes with 6 Smart Blade slots. Each T1 
Smart Blade can provide up to 96 PSTN access ports. Each Multi Access 
Blade can provide up to 480 IP or E1/T1 PRI ports.

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:

• System Database Disk 1. Supports up to 500 megabytes of primary 

system files, 800 megabytes of temporary work space, and 
five gigabytes of alternative space for storing the automatic database 
backup from disk 2. Disk 1 also includes 22 gigabytes of additional 
storage and user and meeting names.

• System Database Disk 2. Supports up to 500 megabytes of alternate 

system files, 800 megabytes of temporary workspace, and 
five gigabytes of alternative space for storing the automatic database 
backup from disk 1. Disk 2 also includes 22 gigabytes of additional 
storage and user and meeting names.

Network interface

A pair of 10/100 Ethernet ports on the CPU card transition module. The 
first port is used as the primary network interface. (The second network 
interface is not available at this time.)