Cisco Cisco TelePresence MCU 4510 Installation Guide
Scalability and resiliency
Unified CM provides excellent resiliency by removing the need to configure conferences directly on individual
MCUs. Many MCUs can be added to Unified CM in order to provide a large pool of available ports.
MCUs. Many MCUs can be added to Unified CM in order to provide a large pool of available ports.
Known limitations
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Scheduled conferencing is not supported.
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Cascading is not supported.
Deploying an MCU as a trunk for Rendezvous conferencing
using Unified CM
using Unified CM
In this deployment a trunk is created between Unified CM and the MCU (see figure below). Unified CM can
be trunked to Cisco VCS to allow calling from devices registered to either call control platform.
be trunked to Cisco VCS to allow calling from devices registered to either call control platform.
Scheduling via TMS is not supported to trunked MCUs but Rendezvous conferences can be created with
either a set number range or created as and when needed based on a prefix configured in the Unified CM
route pattern.
either a set number range or created as and when needed based on a prefix configured in the Unified CM
route pattern.
Figure 5: Unified CM Rendezvous deployment: media and signaling overview
The supported non-scheduled methods are described in the table below.
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