Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Maintenance Manual

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February 27, 2004
Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server System Manager’s Guide
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Getting started
This chapter discusses the following topics:
About MeetingPlace
The MeetingPlace suite of voice and web conferencing products is an 
integrated communication and productivity tool that is deployed on the 
corporate network behind the company firewall for unprecedented security. 
Access to MeetingPlace conferences is easy via popular end-user desktop 
applications like web browsers, IM clients, and standard IP-based phones.
Because MeetingPlace integrates with common interfaces, such as groupware 
clients, web browsers, and PSTN and IP-based phones, users can quickly 
schedule and attend conferences using their preferred interface from any 
location.
MeetingPlace uses your organization’s existing telephony or IP-based 
infrastructure to provide voice conferencing over PSTN and IP phones.
MeetingPlace can also be integrated with your organization’s standard 
business applications, such as e-mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Lotus Notes. 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. 
Attending conferences
Users can easily attend “meet me” conferences. At a predetermined time and 
date, participants dial the MeetingPlace phone number and enter a 
meeting ID, a unique number that identifies each meeting.