Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Maintenance Manual

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Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 Customer Engineering Guide (for Cisco MeetingPlace 8106)
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Understanding MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2
This chapter describes:
what’s new in the MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 software
understanding MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 for the 8106 server and its components
connections to other business systems
What’s new in MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 software
MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 is a comprehensive software release with new features including VoIP 
improvements and an extension of IP scalability to 960 user licenses. This release is available for 8112 
and 8106 systems.
MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 adds several new features that are outlined in 
. For a detailed 
explanation of each feature, refer to the MeetingPlace Audio Server System Manager’s Guide.
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MeetingPlace Audio Server 5.2 New Feature
Area
Improvement
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Increased scalability up to 960 IP ports.
SIP protocol support.
G.729a compression codec support.
Hold and transfer feature.
Multiple IP gateways.
Registration, admission, and status (RAS) support.
Extended echo cancellation limit for line echoes. This may 
also benefit PSTN customers, especially those who use 
international multi-server meetings.
Reservationless meetings
Single number access for reservationless deployments
Reservationless meeting access configuration by profile
Profiles with greater than nine characters can initiate 
reservationless meetings