Competition for market share and resources has never been so intense. Organizations are rapidly growing and expanding globally, creating a need for communication tools that will help them scale and deploy expertise. Video is becoming a common way for globally dispersed teams, partners, and customers to collaborate. With growing deployments of video, compatibility problems among different devices limit effectiveness of these solutions to help meet and make those critical business decisions.
Solution
Cisco TelePresence™ Interoperability delivers any-to-any capabilities so standards-based video conferencing technologies can participate in Cisco TelePresence meetings. This offering extends the immersive experience beyond Cisco TelePresence to virtually all standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) video conferencing systems and other business video applications and technologies.
Business Benefits
Many organizations are already using Cisco TelePresence solutions to make decisions faster, improve customer intimacy and cross-cultural communications, scale scarce resources, and speed products to market. With Cisco TelePresence Interoperability, your organization can extend the reach of your Cisco TelePresence endpoints and take advantage of these benefits at any location using any video conferencing technology. Branch offices now have an equal seat at the virtual table without altering the simplicity, quality, and security of the Cisco TelePresence experience.
With Cisco TelePresence Interoperability, your organization has a choice of two interoperability solutions that are optimized to meet different organizational requirements. With the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing solution organizations can bridge virtually any SD or HD, room or desktop video endpoint with the Cisco TelePresence portfolio. Firewall traversal capabilities, a downloadable video client, and integration with WebEx extend this experience to external participants. If organizational requirements are beyond the features of video conferencing and a multipoint control unit, the Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 5600 combines HD and SD interoperability for video conferencing systems and Cisco TelePresence systems, in addition to extending the reach of media content with a robust set of media-processing features. Both solutions take advantage of the Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch and can scale to meet the needs of global, distributed organizations.
An Integrated Solution
Cisco TelePresence Interoperability preserves your existing investments while helping you realize the benefits of the Cisco TelePresence application by:
• Allowing any Cisco TelePresence endpoint to be in the same call with up to 120 SD or 30 HD video conferencing endpoints
• Providing standards-based operation, with support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.264, G.711 and G.722, and Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP): Any standards-based H.323, SIP, or Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) video conferencing endpoint will interoperate with the Cisco TelePresence system. Cisco TelePresence systems also interoperate with nonstandard endpoints such as Microsoft Office Communicator.
• Enabling Cisco TelePresence meetings to be extended to Cisco WebEx™ Meeting Center
• Preserving the Cisco TelePresence experience by lowering video resolution to 720p when interoperating with HD video conferencing systems
• Including availability of one-button-to-push meeting start to all Cisco TelePresence endpoints in meetings
• Offering a simple addition to existing Cisco TelePresence deployments: No change to endpoints, no change to procedures, no change to gatekeepers, no change to multipoint, and no retraining of users is required.
• Providing multipoint support for up to 48 Cisco TelePresence rooms in a single meeting, or 47 with video conferencing joining: Video conferencing endpoints can all connect over a single multipoint Cisco TelePresence stream, so a meeting can support more users in more places.
