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Cisco TelePresence MCU Deployment Guide
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Table 4: MCU with Conductor deployment capability overview
Conference type
Options
Ad hoc
Rendezvous
– configured on Conductor and dynamically
placed on an MCU at conference start.
Dynamic escalation
– using Multiway (partially supported)
Scalability and resiliency
A single Conductor or Conductor cluster supports 30 MCUs, and multiple Conductor clusters can be
deployed to the same VCS, if required. Conductor also allows seamless growth of conferences
beyond the limits of a single MCU’s port count by dynamically cascading MCUs to form conferences
that span multiple devices.
deployed to the same VCS, if required. Conductor also allows seamless growth of conferences
beyond the limits of a single MCU’s port count by dynamically cascading MCUs to form conferences
that span multiple devices.
Conductor provides excellent resiliency by removing the need to configure conferences directly on
individual MCUs. In addition, Conductors can be clustered to provide resiliency at the Conductor level.
individual MCUs. In addition, Conductors can be clustered to provide resiliency at the Conductor level.
Known limitations
Limited Multiway support: certain corner cases such as using Multiway during a cascaded call
are unsupported.
are unsupported.
Conductor controlled MCUs cannot be used for scheduled conferences.
If an MCU becomes unavailable while a conference is in progress participants must redial in
order to join a new MCU.
order to join a new MCU.
Deploying an MCU using Unified CM
In this deployment the MCU is used as a media resource in Unified CM (see the figure below), which
also manages the MCU. Unified CM can be trunked to VCS to allow calling from devices registered to
either call control platform.
also manages the MCU. Unified CM can be trunked to VCS to allow calling from devices registered to
either call control platform.
There is no scheduling in this scenario, but devices registered to Unified CM that support the
conference softkey can join multiple calls together on an MCU, and Rendezvous conferences can be
configured for users to join.
conference softkey can join multiple calls together on an MCU, and Rendezvous conferences can be
configured for users to join.