[cisco-voip] Any MeetingPlace Users?

[Jason Evans]

Thanks for the feedback Scott. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voll, Scott [mailto:Scott.Voll at wesd.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:13 PM
> To: Jason Evans; smgustafson at gmail.com
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Any MeetingPlace Users?
> 
> I did a IPCC upgrade over the weekend that went horrible.  W/O TAC
being
> able to get on my servers via MP instead of it taking 22 hours it
would
> have been double.

22 hours still seems like a long time :). Sorry about the weekend. 

> 
> I have not seen the video piece of MP but we do h323 video
conferencing
> in our state.  Weather you use MP or something else making a
"Worldwide
> Video conference solution" is going to be hard if you don't have end
to
> end QoS.

Of course ... I wouldn't dream of doing this without assured QoS. We
will have full end-to-end QoS to all sites before the VC solution is
implemented. Anybody with experience using MCI's PIP network want to
comment here??
 
> 
> If we go outside our state network we have to use ISDN.  That is about
> the only way you will get good video quality.  At a minimum of 384k.

I will push/prefer IP conferencing, but I also want my bridge/endpoints
to handle ISDN for outside users and a backup scenario. 

> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jason Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:54 AM
> To: smgustafson at gmail.com
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Any MeetingPlace Users?
> 
> Steve -
> 
> I am currently in the process of researching and procuring a worldwide
> video conferencing solution for our company, and I second your request
> to get some feedback from any MeetingPlace Users. Honestly, when I
> talked to my vendor's Cisco rep a while back he basically told me not
to
> buy it b/c it wasn't ready. Hmmmm. From what I see, Polycom is the
best
> (only?) game in town and it seems to integrate seamlessly with Cisco,
> but I'd like to at least give the homogenous Cisco architecture, a la
> MP, a look.
> 
> Scott's comment was good, but he hasn't seen video, and I'm not so
sure
> what he meant by:
> 
> "Personally we don't have it, BUT Thank GOD TAC has it.  I would have
> been sunk without it this weekend."
> 
> Any input would be great!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jason Evans
> 
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