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Administrator’s Guide for Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Release 5.3
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Chapter 2 Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Components and Process
About the Cisco MeetingPlace Video-Conferencing Process
Figure 2-2
How Video Conferences Are Scheduled
A user fills in a standard Cisco MeetingPlace conference scheduling form in Microsoft Outlook, Lotus
Notes, Cisco MeetingPlace Web Conferencing, or MeetingTime; then the user submits that form to
Cisco MeetingPlace audio server. If the user has indicated that the conference will include video
participants, the Cisco MeetingPlace audio server verifies that resources are available, and if so,
schedules the requested number of video ports and (depending on system configuration) notifies
invitees.
About the Minimum Number of Video Ports Scheduled
In order to prevent more video conferences from being scheduled than the Cisco IPVC MCU can support
at one time, Cisco MeetingPlace may schedule more video ports than the meeting scheduler specifies for
a conference. The minimum number of ports that Cisco MeetingPlace schedules for each conference is
determined by the formula [(Total number of video conference ports - Number of video floater ports +
Number of video overbook ports)/ Total number of video conferences available]. If a user does not
schedule fewer ports than the number of ports resulting from this calculation, Cisco MeetingPlace
schedules the number of ports that the scheduler specifies. Floater and overbook ports are defined in
About Configuring Port Parameters, page 4-7.
1 The audio of the telephone participants is
processed by the Cisco MeetingPlace audio
server.
4 The audio and video channels of the video
endpoints are processed by the
Cisco IPVC MCU.
2 The audio channels from telephone
participants are sent to join the audio on the
Cisco IPVC MCU.
5 The audio channels of the video endpoints are
sent to join the audio in Cisco MeetingPlace
audio conferencing.
3 Video participants hear the audio from
telephone participants.
6 Telephone participants hear the audio from
video endpoints.
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