MGC Hardware and Installation Manual
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MGC Unit Main Features
The MGC unit offers the following features:
• Supports a large number of ports (48 for the MGC-50, 96 for the MGC-
100) running at 128 Kbps
• Universal slots, telco grade high availability with hot-swappable
modules, redundancy, on-line upgrading and dynamic resource
allocation
• Support for standard network interfaces (ISDN, ATM, T1-CAS, LAN
and V.35 serial) for the easy integration of conference elements into
external network management and billing systems
• Support for up to 16 operator workstations (PCs) connected to either a
local or remote MCU; each operator workstation can be connected to
several MGC units
• Multirate conferencing and Transcoding (audio and video, including
high bit rate video and data bit rate conversion)
• Channel aggregation according to H.221, BONDING and Multirate (H0)
• Automatic rate detection upon endpoint connection to the conference
• H.320/H.323 video, T.120 data and Greet and Guide conferencing
• Enhanced Continuous Presence (multi-image video)
• IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
• Windows 95®/Windows 98®/Windows NT®/Windows 2000®/
Windows XP® based operator station
• Multiple operators per conference
• Multiple conferences and MCUs per operator
• TCP/IP - LAN - Internet access
• Supports serial communication (V.35/RS-530/RS-449) (optional)