[cisco-voip] Conference Solution

[Peter Slow]

While this is purely opinion, for something of that size, you really
should be looking at a hardware solution, especially if you're
involving video. your standard everyday voice-only conferences can be
handled by the resources within/controlled by callmanager, by adding
DSPs to routers in locations where conferencing is necessary, if
you've got multiple locations. the cisco MCUs can integrate directly
with CUCM to provide adhoc  video conference functionality as well.

what sort of features are you lookign for or willing to give up that
make you want to go third party? you lose the ability to do adhoc
conferences for every-day calls without any resources internal to
callmanager. on teh other hand, you arent goign to scal to a 120
person conference within CUCM easily, though it can be accomplished,
at least for voice.

-Peter

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Haas, Neal <nhaas at co.fresno.ca.us> wrote:
> Up to 120 users at a time, but for sure start with 36 ports available then grow as we need too. We want to use this as training so Voice and Video, as well as your standard everyday voice conferences. We are looking at doing this as maybe two different solutions altogether. But to be honest this is still up in the air for two different solutions. If it will work in one solution that would be a plus.
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> Neal Haas
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> 1020 S 10th St
> Fresno, CA  93702
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Slow [mailto:peter.slow at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:09 AM
> To: Matt Slaga (US)
> Cc: Haas, Neal; cisco-voip voyp list
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Conference Solution
>
> More importantly,
>   What size conferences are you looking at hosting? Voice or video? a
> conferencing solution of 5 to 6 participants is very different from
> one that needs to support 16 or 30 etc...
>
> -Peter
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Matt Slaga (US)
> <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com> wrote:
>> OCS 2007 R2 has pin-based dial-in conferencing, and can direct-sip integrate
>> into UCM.  User accounts are tied to AD.  It's not priced per port, more of
>> a per conference host user I suppose.
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>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Haas, Neal
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:21 PM
>> To: 'cisco-voip voyp list'
>> Subject: [cisco-voip] Conference Solution
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>> Hi all
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>> What are some third party conference solution out there that integrate with
>> Cisco. I have looked at Sonexis and was really liking what they offered, but
>> looking for something less than $1000 per port.
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>>
>> Neal Haas
>>
>> County Of Fresno
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>> IT Analyst - ITSD, Communications
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