[cisco-voip] Video Conferencing ? CM 4.1(3)

Matthew Saskin matt at saskin.net
Wed Jan 30 14:29:12 EST 2008


If you want to run your own bridge, I *highly* suggest the Codian (now 
owned by Tandberg) over the radvision/cisco bridges.  You don't get the 
native appearance as an SCCP media resource within callmanager, but you 
get a much more solid product imo :)

I believe they also sell an IP/ISDN gateway device as well.

Scott Voll wrote:
> Most outside world stuff it's a lot easier to run H323 with 
> Gatekeepers.  we have a state wide network that we do all our VC over 
> IP.  if it's out of state we use our Regional Hub to bridge the IP / 
> ISDN.  Depending on weather you want to do three way or better 
> conferencing and don't have a service provider that can you it for 
> you.... you may look at the cuvc or radvision or there are a couple 
> others I'm forgetting right now.  Tandbergs do have a three way bridge 
> build in if you want to use that.
>  
> Scott
> 
> On Jan 30, 2008 7:30 AM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rkulagow at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Matthew Saskin wrote:
>      > Ditto that for the Polycom's.  If I recall correctly, the polycom
>     H.323
>      > load also has the ability for it to route outbound calls via the
>      > CallManager, so that a gatekeeper isn't necessary.
>      >
>      > For the easiest integration with either vendor, just order the
>     endpoint
>      > with the SCCP load on it.  From there, they have a plugin you run
>     on the
>      > CallManager to load the new device type, then when you go to add
>     a phone
>      > you'll have a new phone type of Tandberg Video Endpoint (for
>     example).
> 
>     How complicated does it get once you need to talk to the outside world
>     though?  If I have a SCCP endpoint connected via ethernet and haven't
>     pulled a PRI to the endpoint, then I'm assuming that this is where
>     devices like the CUVC 3545 comes into play?  In CM, is it just
>     configured as a MGCP gateway?
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