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Cisco TelePresence Multiway Deployment Guide (Cisco VCS X7.2 and Conductor XC1.2)

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Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 4

Objectives and intended audience .......................................................................................................... 4

Overview of Multiway™ ........................................................................................................................... 4

Centralized resources for conferencing ........................................................................................... 4

Intuitive conferencing ....................................................................................................................... 4

Cisco Multiway with Conductor ......................................................................................... 5

The advantages of using Conductor and Multiway ................................................................................. 5

Deployment scenario ............................................................................................................................... 6

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Designing a dial plan ............................................................................................................................... 7

Summary of configuration process .......................................................................................................... 7

Configuring a search rule on the VCS ..................................................................................................... 7

Configuring a search rule towards Conductor: ................................................................................. 7

Configuring a Multiway conference alias on the Cisco TelePresence Conductor................................... 8

Configuring the endpoints using TMS Provisioning Extension ................................................................ 9

Configuring the endpoints manually for use with Conductor ................................................................... 9

Cisco Multiway without Conductor ...................................................................................10

Deployment scenario ............................................................................................................................. 10

Summary of configuration process ........................................................................................................ 10

Prerequisites for system configuration .................................................................................................. 11

Cisco VCS configuration ........................................................................................................................ 11

Cisco VCS and H.323 MCU ........................................................................................................... 12

Cisco VCS and SIP MCU ............................................................................................................... 13

Cisco VCS and MCU supporting both H.323 and SIP ................................................................... 14

Cisco VCS with H.323 endpoints initiating a Multiway conference ................................................ 14

SIP endpoints with SIP MCU.......................................................................................................... 14

SIP endpoints with H.323 MCU ...................................................................................................... 14

H.323 endpoints with H.323 MCU .................................................................................................. 15

H.323 endpoints with SIP MCU ...................................................................................................... 15

Cisco VCS configuration: in a cluster ............................................................................................. 15

Cisco VCS configuration: in a network of VCSs ............................................................................. 15

Cisco VCS configuration: with OCS/Lync ...................................................................................... 15

Cisco VCS configuration: with CUCM ............................................................................................ 16

Cisco TelePresence MCU configuration ............................................................................................... 16

Endpoint configuration (with or without Conductor) .......................................................19

Endpoints that can initiate a Multiway conference ................................................................................ 19

Cisco IP Video Phone E20 .................................................................................................................... 19

Cisco TelePresence System EX Series ......................................................................................... 19

Cisco TelePresence System Profiles using C Series codecs ........................................................ 19

Cisco TelePresence System MXP Series ...................................................................................... 19

TANDBERG MXP – L Series ......................................................................................................... 20

Endpoint requirements (those that can be joined to a Multiway conference) ...................................... 21

H.323 .............................................................................................................................................. 21