VC Solution for management, mutliparty meetings, external calling and third parties

[carl_townshend]

Hi All

We have a requirement for some improved VC functionality and improvements in our company.

We have a large deployment of around 120 endpoints, DX, SX devices etc.

We currently have an old VCS and a MCU for management and multisite meetings, we have some issues around video quality especially with the multiparty meetings, these are all hosted from the HQ.

The additional requirements would be local breakout in country for external dialling, possibility to invite third parties into the call via e-mail etc, and also for users in country to have meetings locally rather than come back to the HQ.

The proposal that has come back is the below,

-Cisco meeting server 1000 in the 3 regions

-Cisco Expressway C and E in the 3 regions

-The endpoints would register with the local CUCM

Is this the correct solution?

Is there intelligence in the solution, i.e do the endpoints in country know that there meeting server is closest and use that?

Could someone with another video endpoint such as Skype / Teams be able to call one of our Cisco endpoints

Can we invite third parties to have a VC with us over a web browser etc?

Would it give better management of our current endpoints?

Many thanks

[AbhiGeek]

Yep, that seems about a good way to fulfil your requirements. TS is also a good option to work with in case you need multi party call over a conference bridge.

To answer to your questions:

Is there intelligence in the solution, i.e do the endpoints in country know that there meeting server is closest and use that?

- Can you please elaborate this further?Assuming that the endpoints will be registered on CUCM subscriber, there seems to be an obvious way to know their conferencing server - through a route pattern directed to trunk. What did you mean by closest?

Could someone with another video endpoint such as Skype / Teams be able to call one of our Cisco endpoints.

-As long as the endpoint supports SIP URI dialling feature.

Can we invite third parties to have a VC with us over a web browser etc?

-Yes, again, as long as the third party endpoint supports SIP URI dialling feature, they can be invited on a one-to-one call with your endpoint(number@vcs express IP address) or you can host a conference call on TS bridge (bridge@vcs express IP address).

Would it give better management of our current endpoints?

-in what manner?

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