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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 6.x
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Installing Web Conferencing for a Segmented
Meeting Access Configuration
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing supports a segmented meeting access configuration that
allows you to provide external access to your users while maintaining network security. Although you
can provide external access to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conferences by simply opening ports in
your firewall, we do not recommend this option because it lacks security.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• About Segmented Meeting Access, page 3-1
• Preinstallation Tasks: Web Conferencing in an SMA-2S Configuration, page 3-4
• Installation Tasks: Web Conferencing in an SMA-2S Configuration, page 3-5
• Postinstallation Tasks: Web Conferencing in an SMA-2S Configuration, page 3-6
Note Before reviewing this chapter, please read System Requirements for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release
6.0 at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/prod_installation_guides_list.html.
About Segmented Meeting Access
While external participation is possible by controlling port access through a firewall, we highly
recommend that you consider a segmented meeting access (SMA) configuration instead. SMA
configurations isolate some meetings on the private corporate network while exposing others, designated
as external, to the Internet. Users designate their meetings as internal or external during the scheduling
process by setting the Allow External Web Participants parameter on the New Meeting scheduling page.
Typically, a Cisco MCS is placed in the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, a network segment created between
the private corporate network and the Internet to host meetings for external access.
Note The Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server (SMA-1S) configuration supported in previous releases of
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing is no longer supported in Release 6.x.
The following sections describe the supported SMA configurations:
• About the SMA-2S Configuration, page 3-2
• About the SMA-2S Configuration with SSL and Segmented DNS, page 3-3