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

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Phil...any chance on Polycom licencing CDP from Cisco so I can slap the 
phone onto a port and have it configure voice VLANs appropriately?


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Walenta" <pwalenta at wi.rr.com>
To: "'Robert Kulagowski'" <rkulagow at gmail.com>; <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Video Conferencing ? CM 4.1(3)


> I'll start by saying that I work for Polycom...that being said..
>
> We do have a product that does allow control of the video unit from a 
> Cisco
> IP phone (it can control our SCCP based devices or H.323/SIP devices).
>
> Link here (sorry for the product advertisment):
> http://www.polycom.com/usa/en/products/video/video_conferencing_systems/desk
> top/video_control_app.html
>
>
> Now, as for what folks usually do for overflow:
>
> I've built several scenarios for customers:
>
> 1.  MCU, IP and ISDN attached, with GK control.  The GK knows that the MCU
> can "dial out" as a backup path.
> 2.  H.323/GK control, with Cisco IOS gateways (28XX or 38XX) and attached
> PRI's using the new IOS ability to do H.323 to H.320 conversion.
>
> Both work pretty well, the MCU variant allows content, the Cisco one does
> not (support is coming from what I understand).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Robert Kulagowski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:38 PM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Video Conferencing ? CM 4.1(3)
>
> Matthew Saskin wrote:
>> VT Advantage is basically your only option if you want to provide
>> video from the desktop IP phone.  If you want room-based solutions
>> they can integrate with CallManager in multiple ways (as mentioned in
>> previous
>> emails) but they are going to be dedicated units in a room (or on a
>> crash cart, etc.)
>>
>> As far as providing overflow from IP to ISDN, I can't even think how
>> to do that.  The biggest thing standing in the way is that you would
>> need to change the destination being dialed from an IP address to a
>> phone number :-\
>
> Right; as I'm thinking about it now, the gatekeeper knows that there's "x"
> amount of bandwidth between the two locations; if the bandwidth request is
> rejected then there should be _some_ way to do this though, isn't there? 
> Or
> do people just not place the call at that point?
> That's how AAR in the voice world works...
>
> As far as the one-touch capability, I think I should be able to create a
> service URL on the phone that does an AXL call to determine who I'm
> currently talking to.  I can then have a widget that uses the video
> conferencing equipment API to dial the call.  I've already gotten it to 
> work
> manually using the Polycom telnet interface, so at this point it's just a
> Small Matter of Programming. :)
>
>
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