[cisco-voip] Webex room devices with 3rd party meetings

[Brian Meade]

Yea, I'm not a huge fan of the Webex Directory Connector.  It could be a
lot better.  Something like Synergy Sky works much better.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:46 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Just a heads up that the Hybrid calendar parse tool does _*not*_ work
> with forwarded invites last time I checked. This is a big drag. You can
> copy/paste meeting details into a new meeting I think.
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> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of *Brian
> Meade
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:20 PM
> *To:* Myron Young <mdavid_young at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* cisco-voip voyp list <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Webex room devices with 3rd party meetings
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> The RoomKit mini can act as a USB device and then they can use a laptop to
> join the meeting.
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> The other devices right now only support calling in to other meeting
> services via SIP/H.323.  Zoom has Cloud Room Connector licenses you can pay
> for to enable dialing in via SIP/H.323.  With Microsoft Teams, they don't
> allow native SIP/H.323 call-in so you have to use a 3rd party interop
> service such as Pexip/Polycom.  Cisco just announced that they will be
> building an interop service but there's not many details around it yet.
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> You'll need to register the Webex devices to CUCM or Webex and that may
> incur some additional costs depending upon your licensing/subscription.
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> For one button to push, the Webex Directory Connector will try to parse
> SIP URI's and add the join button.  Sometimes using a 3rd party directory
> connector may be a better option if you run into any issues.  Zoom has one
> for Zoom meetings for Cisco endpoints.  There's other companies like
> Synergy Sky that have alternatives for Cisco endpoints.
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> When joining meetings via SIP/H.323, you most likely won't get the full
> native client experience with MS/Zoom such as roster list, being able to
> mute other participants, etc.
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> Cisco is working on a WebRTC join experience using the web engine on the
> newer endpoints that will allow you to join other meeting services with a
> more native experience.  For the MS Teams WebRTC experience, you'll be
> limited to single screen though.
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:24 PM Myron Young <mdavid_young at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Anyone has any good experience in joining non-Webex meetings from the
> Cisco roomkit devices? Trying to deploy a standard for conference rooms
> with roomkit devices and touch 10 but need to make sure user experience is
> easy or similar when joining Webex meetings vs non-webex meetings such as
> Zoom, Blue Jeans or Microsoft meetings.
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