Hey Jonathan - thanks for your reply to my other post (regarding UC on UCS). Strange that I noticed you'd also posted in this thread, which involves another project I'm working on.
Specifically, I've been researching audio/web conferencing solutions for a customer whose Meeting Place Express is now EoX. I've seen Cisco presos this past year (including at Networkers) that suggest taking this strategy towards recommending solutions, in this order:
1) purely hosted (WebEx SaaS) for everything
2) on-prem Meeting Place 8 server for audio, and WebEx for all web conferencing
3) on-prem Meeting Place 8 AND WebEx Node servers, and WebEx for all external web conferencing users
The idea is that you'd start with 1), but if the BW/resource demands on your Internet pipe were too high, you could bring some of it internally, and consider option 2), or even 3).
What I haven't yet seen are any real design guidelines that offer advice and analytics on when it will probably make sense to consider the alternate solutions. For example, the customer requirements are:
- x meetings a month, with y conference organizers, and z max participants
- x of the meetings are audio only, and y of the meetings are audio + web
- out of x participants, y will be external over the Internet or WAN, while z are local (the higher value z, the better served by on-prem gear)
- etc.
Have you seen any reference guides like this? (I was hoping for a really detailed SRND somewhere, but no luck)
Thanks again!
