Polycom MGC-100 Manuale Utente

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Chapter 1 - Before You Begin
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MGC Unit Main Features
The MGC unit offers the following features:
Supports a large number of ports (48 for the MGC-50, 96 for the MGC-
100) running at 128 Kbps
Universal slots, telco grade high availability with hot-swappable 
modules, redundancy, on-line upgrading and dynamic resource 
allocation
Support for standard network interfaces (ISDN, ATM, T1-CAS, LAN 
and V.35 serial) for the easy integration of conference elements into 
external network management and billing systems
Support for up to 16 operator workstations (PCs) connected to either a 
local or remote MCU; each operator workstation can be connected to 
several MGC units
Multirate conferencing and Transcoding (audio and video, including 
high bit rate video and data bit rate conversion)
Channel aggregation according to H.221, BONDING and Multirate (H0)
Automatic rate detection upon endpoint connection to the conference
H.320/H.323 video, T.120 data and Greet and Guide conferencing
Quality of Service for IP networks
Enhanced Continuous Presence (multi-image video)
Ad Hoc conferencing
IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
Windows 95®/Windows 98®/Windows NT®/Windows 2000®/
Windows XP® based operator station
Multiple operators per conference
Multiple conferences and MCUs per operator
TCP/IP - LAN - Internet access
Supports serial communication (V.35/RS-530/RS-449) (optional)