VCON MXM vs. Cisco MCM

[yong_sa]

Hello again.

How does VCON's Media Exchange Manager (MXM) compare with Cisco's MCM?

Do need to Purchase Cisco's IPVC in order to use MCM?

Thanks very much in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Herbert Cruz

Herbert Cruz HomeTech Solutions.

hrcruz@hometechsolutions.ca

[wdrootz]

From an interoperability and support standpoint, I’d stick with Cisco. VCON is a small overseas company whose value has dropped over 80% in the past 52 weeks. Side-by-side feature comparison looks similar at a glance. For your second question, any H.323 Version 2 compliant gateway is supported with the Cisco MCM.

[bob_sheldon]

VCON MXM is a "near" ITU compliant Gatekeeper, as well as a management tool for VCON endpoints. The problem with MXM is that it cannot recognize neighbor gatekeepers such as MCM or RADVision ECS, which makes it problematic is a large disparate network based on Cisco routing. Stick with MCM and you will have interoperability.

regards,

Bob Sheldon

Forgent

bsheldon@forgent.com