CMR Hybrid

Konferenční služby
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Ivan Sýkora
Agenda
§  Architektura CMR
§  Multiparty - přehled
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms
(CMRs)
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Paradigm name changes
§  Ad-hoc (escalation)
§  Rendezvous / Meet-Me
§  Scheduled
Scheduled
Scheduled
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Instant
Personal (or Permanent)
Scheduled (with dedicated resources)
Scheduled (with shared resources)
Scheduled (with cloud resources)
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Cisco WebEx® Web Conferencing
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Multiparty
Video
Conferencing
Cisco TelePresence® Server
Cisco TelePresence Conductor
Delightful Experiences
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Recording &
Streaming
Web
Conferencing
Scheduling &
Management
Conferencing
Cisco Conferencing Portfolio
Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMRs)
Benefits:
§  Meet the way you want
§  Scale meetings
§  Choice of deployment
CMR
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMRs)
CMR Premises
CMR Hybrid
CMR Cloud
TelePresence infrastructure @
Customer Datacentre
TelePresence on-premises plus
Cisco WebEx
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMRs)
§  Concept
§  Always available, personal meeting room that’s virtualized
§  Ability to support voice, video, and content sharing
§  Any standards based endpoint supported including Jabber
§  Seamless integration with WebEx, allowing ability to join via WebEx in their
browser or from any mobile WebEx client.
CMR
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
CMR Premises
TelePresence infrastructure
@ Customer Datacenter
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CMR Cloud
CMR Hybrid
TelePresence on Premises plus
Cisco WebEx
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
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Available now
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
CMR Premises
TelePresence infrastructure
@ Customer Datacenter
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CMR Cloud
CMR Hybrid
TelePresence on Premises plus
Cisco WebEx
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
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Available now
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Requirements:
TMS 14.6
CMR Premises
TMSPE 1.4
Conductor XC3.0
Unified CM
Conductor
TelePresence Server
TMS & TMSPE
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CMR Premises
§  On Premise Solution
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Administrator
TMS
User
User
Set automated user import
for enabling entitlement
•  Up to 100,000 users
•  Works automagically
Set configuration template
Email sent automatically to
auto-imported users
•  Admin configurable
email
•  Admin can manually
send email
Link to self-service page to
personalize their CMR
•  Educational text
•  Customize banner
•  Enter required PIN
•  Teach where to go to
update settings and
layouts
•  User-specific
information page
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Shares their CMR alias
and PIN or clicks to send
via email
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Requirements:
TMS 14.4
TMSPE 1.2
Conductor XC2.3
CMR - Summary
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Requirements:
TMS 14.6
CMR new features
TMSPE 1.4
Conductor XC3.0
§  Host and Guest Pin
Katie – Host
Dials: [email protected]
Unified CM
Conductor
TelePresence Server
Enters Pin: 4344
Ben – Guest
Dials: [email protected]
Enters Pin: 1234
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
CMR Premises
TelePresence infrastructure
@ Customer Datacenter
Available Now
CMR Cloud
CMR Hybrid
TelePresence on Premises plus
Cisco WebEx
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
Available Now
Available now
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CMR Premises and CMR Hybrid
§  CMR Premises:
–  Non-scheduled conference, video only
§  CMR Hybrid:
–  Scheduled conference, video and WebEx
§  Same on site infrastructure and same WebEx cloud used for both CMR
Premises and CMR Hybrid
On site Infrastructure
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CMR Premises and CMR Hybrid
Unified CM
Expressway-C
Expressway-E
TMS
Conductor
SIP
Media+Content
HTTPs
TelePresence Server
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Product
Software Version
TelePresence Conductor
XC3.0
TelePresence Management Suite (TMS)
14.6
TMS Provisioning Extension (PE)
1.4
TelePresence Server (TS)
4.1
MCU
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CMR Hybrid
§  All participants meet on same conference call on conference call running on conference bridge
managed by TelePresence Conductor
Corporate Network
WebEx Cloud
WebEx Client
TMS
Media Route
DMZ
Media Route
Internet
Media Route
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Bridge
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
CMR Premises
TelePresence infrastructure
@ Customer Datacenter
Available Now
CMR Cloud
CMR Hybrid
TelePresence on Premises plus
Cisco WebEx
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
Available Now
Available now
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CMR Cloud
Unified CM
Expressway-C
Expressway-E
TelePresence Server
SIP
Media+Content
HTTPs
§  All conference resources are in the Cloud
§  Can have 25 video participants and up to 1000 Webex participants, with up to
500 using video
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Configure your Meeting Room
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Share room info
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
CMR Premises
CMR Hybrid
CMR Cloud
On Premise bridges
On Premise bridges
Bridging in the cloud
WebEx Integration
WebEx Integration
Personal Meeting Rooms
Personal Meeting Rooms
Unified Roster List on WebEx
Schedulable
(OBTP, Automatic Connect, etc)
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MultiParty Overview
§  Types of conferences
Non-Scheduled Conferences
Instant / Ad hoc Conference
§  Impromptu meetings, they are not scheduled beforehand ,nor require an administrator to initiate
them. Suitable for smaller, on-the-fly, meetings. A point-to-point call escalated to a multiparty call
is considered ad hoc.
Permanent / Rendezvous Conference
§  Also called meet-me/permanent/static conferences, requires endpoints to dial in to a predetermined number. Often used for recurring meetings which involve different endpoints each
time.
Scheduled Conferences
–  Planned in advance for a specific start and end time. Resources may or may not be
guaranteed depending on your deployment. Endpoints join manually or are
automatically connected by the multiparty resource.
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MultiParty Overview
§  TelePresence Server - One platform for all video conferencing
TelePresence Server
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Support for wide range of codecs
Optimized conferencing
ActiveControl support
Multiple layouts and PIN support
Available in hardware and VMWare
Supports multiscreen and single screen
endpoints
•  Uses new Flex API for advanced
features
•  Basic Cascading
•  Multistreaming (SVC) support
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H.323 and SIP support
Auto Attendant
Basic cascading
No TIP support
No optimized conferencing
Legacy API
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Collaboration Architecture Overview
Headquarters
TelePresence
Prime
Management
Collaboration
Suite
Expressway-E
Unified CM
IM & Presence
DMZ
Management
Expressway-C
Call Control
Mobile Worker
Internet
Conductor
CUBE
UC App
TelePresence
Server
Unity
Connection
Contact
Center
Other UC
Applications
ISR G2
ISR G2
TS
MPLS WAN
TelePresence
Server
Conferencing
UC Applications
Edge
PSTN /
ISDN
Endpoints
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Collaboration Architecture Overview
Headquarters
Prime
Collaboration
VCS-C
TMS
TMS
VCS-E
Unified CM
CUBE
Management
Mobile Worker
Internet
Conductor
Call Control
Edge
TS
ISR G2
ISR G2
MPLS WAN
TS
TS
Conferencing
Other UC
Applications
Unity
Connection
UC Applications
IM and
Presence
Gateway
PSTN /
ISDN
Endpoints
Remote Site
SIP Trunk(s)
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MultiParty Overview
§  Architecture
SIP
TelePresence
Server
API
TelePresence
Management Suite
Unified CM
TelePresence
Server
TelePresence
Server
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TMS Scheduling with Conductor
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Before 2015
§  Scheduling Architecture
Unified CM
VCS-C
VCS-E
Internet
MCU for Unified
TS for
CM Instant
Permanent
conferences conferences
MCU
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Dual-registered
TS for scheduling
SIP
H.323
SIP and API control
SIP
TMS
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§  Scheduling Architecture
Unified CM
Expressway-C
Expressway-E
Internet
TMS
Conductor
SIP
SIP and API control
Shared Pool of TS Resources
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MultiParty Overview
§  Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS)
§  Provisioning and configuration of conferencing infrastructure
(Conductor)
§  Booking and scheduling of endpoints and infrastructure
Operating System:
Windows Server 2003 32-bit
Windows Server 2008 32- or 64-bit
§  Runs on windows server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
§  Robust APIs available for 3rd party applications
Platform - Software Only
§  Previously available as an Appliance , Now only available
as software (can be run in VMWare)
§  Replaces CTS-Managerà
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MultiParty Overview
TMSXE
TMSBA
TMSXN
TMSPE
§  TMS and TMS extensions
Integrates TMS with Microsoft
Exchange (2007, 2010,2013) via
EWS – Exchange 365
Separate Server than
TMS
Integrates TMS with IBM Lotus
Domino Server 7.0.x, 8.0.x, 8.5.x
Separate Server than
TMS
TMSBA
Provides a Web Services API that
interfaces with the TMS booking
engine
Option Key on TMS
TMSPE
Enables provisioning of telepresence users and
endpoints for large-scale deployments and setting
VCS FindMe options in single user portal
Also provides the Smart Scheduler portal and the
Collaboration Meeting Room for Conductor
Replaces older TMS Agent
Legacy. Both are supported
in TMS 13, only TMSPE
supported from 14.1
TMSXE
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite
Extension for Microsoft Exchange
TMSXN
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite
Extension for Lotus Notes
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite
Extension Booking API
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite
Provisioning Extension
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Traditional Scheduling Concepts
§  Dedicated Resources
TMS
§  Historically Cisco scheduling has used dedicated
resources to guarantee a certain number of ports
would be available throughout the scheduled meeting.
Mtg 1
Mtg 2
Mtg 2
9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 9:30 9:00 - 11:00
§  An application (TMS or CTS-Manager) would:
–  Locate an appropriate resource
–  Confirm enough ports were free between start and end times
–  Keep track of all scheduled conferences to ensure already
reserved ports are not consumed
–  Allow conferences to start and forcibly end conferences at end time.
TS
§  This has been preferable in the past as video was often an expensive
resource only used for more critical meetings
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Dedicated Resources
§  Downsides
§  Wasted ports
–  Users over book to ensure everyone gets connected
–  Users book for video then use audio or WebEx instead
–  Cannot take advantage of Optimized Conferencing
§  Additional hardware required
–  Separate, dedicated TelePresence Server(s) needed just to enable conferencing
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New Concept - Shared Resources
§  Shared resources allow higher utilization of bridge ports as all types of
conferences (Instant, Permanent, and Scheduled) can use the same resources.
Conductor
TMS
Mtg 1
Mtg 2
Mtg 2
9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 9:30 9:00 - 11:00
Pool of TS Resources
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TMS Scheduling with Conductor
§  Overview
§  Minimum software versions required:
–  TMS 14.6
–  Conductor XC3.0
–  TS 4.1
§  Previous versions of TMS and Conductor supported limited scheduling with
several major caveats. Recent releases help alleviate many of the initial
challenges with scheduling resources behind Conductor.
§  Now MultiParty Media 310, 320 and TelePresence Server on Virtual Machine
can be scheduled (including for CMR Hybrid conferences)
§  Conference placement is done at conference start time
§  Conductor can be deployed with dedicated or shared scheduled resources
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TMS Scheduling with Conductor
§  Deployment Options
Dedicated Resources
Conductor
Instant and Permanent Resources
TMS
Scheduled Resources
•  Similar to previous TMS deployment with directly
managed TelePresence Servers.
•  Single TS, in single Bridge Pool, in single Service
Preference. TMS can have multiple Service
Preferences in a prioritized list.
•  IP Zones based on Conductor IP Zone, so possible
loss of conference placement intelligence if already
using IP Zones with directly managed bridges.
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Shared Resources
Conductor
TMS
Instant, Permanent, and Scheduled Resources
•  Simplest deployment, TelePresence Servers are
dynamically allocated for any type of conference.
•  If utilization is high, additional TelePresence
Servers can be deployed.
•  Takes advantage of Optimized Conferencing.
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Cascading with TelePresence Server
§  Requires following versions:
–  TelePresence Server 4.0(1.57) and later
–  Conductor XC2.4.1 and later
§  Only available in remotely managed mode (requires Conductor)
§  Each cascade link uses 720p 30fps main video, stereo audio and 720p 30fps
content quality
§  Allows for up to 2342 participants in a single conference with a maximum roster
list of 500 participants.
§  TelePresence Server to MCU cascade is not supported.
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Cascading with TelePresence Server
Conf 1
Conf 1
Conf 2
Conf 3
Conf 1
Conf 3
Conf 3
Con
Conf 2
2
Conf
f3
Conf 1
Con
Conf 1
Conf 3
f2
Conf 2
Conf 1
Conf 2
§  Hub and spoke topology
Conf 1
Conf 2
Conf 1
§  Only single “primary” TS in any given conference supported
§  Same TS can be primary in 1 conference and secondary in another conference
§  Max number of hops between endpoints = 3
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Cascading with TelePresence Server
§  ActiveControl enables Unified Roster List
Connected to primary TS
Connected to secondary TS
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Cascading Demo
Host
Cascade
Host
Cascade
Host
Cascade
§  vTS has 8 HD ports available (Optimized Conf disabled for demo)
§  Conductor Settings:
–  Conference type: Lecture
–  Number of hosts to reserve: 3
–  Maximum number of cascades: 2
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MultiParty Licensing
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TelePresence Server Licenses
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§  Moving towards user based licensing
AP
§  Traditional licensing simply enables
a number of ports on the multiparty bridge
(Screen Licenses)
§  Moving towards user based licensing (Personal MultiParty) allows for a more
flexible multiparty deployment at a significantly lower cost
§  Customers have a choice of licensing every TelePresence Server either with
traditional port based model (Screen Licenses) or with the recommended user
based model (Personal MultiParty)
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MultiParty Licensing offers
Existing
Personal Multiparty
Basic
New Pricing
Screen Licenses
New
Personal Multiparty Advanced
Scheduling
Separate licenses required
Ad-hoc/Rendezvous only
Ad-hoc, Rendezvous and/or Scheduled
Experience
Full HD (1080p30)
HD (720p30)
Single screen endpoints ONLY
Full HD (1080p30)
Single and Multi-screen endpoints
Max participants
per named host
Based on purchased licenses
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Unrestricted (fair usage)
Licenses
included
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Conductor
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Services
12% SWSS
16% SWSS
16% SWSS
Price
$9,000 per screen license
Included in CUWL Pro
•  $625 per named host a-la-carte
•  or a $450 upgrade from CUWL Pro
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TMS base license
Expressway Rich Media Sessions
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MultiParty Licensing offers
Existing
Personal Multiparty
Basic
New Pricing
Screen Licenses
New
Personal Multiparty Advanced
Scheduling
Separate licenses required
Ad-hoc/Rendezvous only
Ad-hoc, Rendezvous and/or Scheduled
Experience
Full HD (1080p30)
HD (720p30)
Single screen endpoints ONLY
Full HD (1080p30)
Single and Multi-screen endpoints
Max participants
per named host
Based on purchased licenses
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Unrestricted (fair usage)
Licenses
included
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Conductor
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Services
12% SWSS
16% SWSS
16% SWSS
Price
$9,000 per screen license
Included in CUWL Pro
•  $625 per named host a-la-carte
•  or a $450 upgrade from CUWL Pro
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Expressway Lync Interop License Key
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MultiParty Licensing offers
SIMPLE & COST EFFECTIVE
Entire Cisco Video Infrastructure
in a SINGLE SKU !!!
Existing
Personal Multiparty
Basic
New Pricing
Screen Licenses
New
Personal Multiparty Advanced
Scheduling
Separate licenses required
Ad-hoc/Rendezvous only
Ad-hoc, Rendezvous and/or Scheduled
Experience
Full HD (1080p30)
HD (720p30)
Single screen endpoints ONLY
Full HD (1080p30)
Single and Multi-screen endpoints
Max participants
per named host
Based on purchased licenses
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Unrestricted (fair usage)
Licenses
included
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Server
•  TelePresence Conductor
• 
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Services
12% SWSS
16% SWSS
16% SWSS
Price
$9,000 per screen license
Included in CUWL Pro
•  $625 per named host a-la-carte
•  or a $450 upgrade from CUWL Pro
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Port Capacity Increases
60
Telepresence Server
HD Port Capacity
+ 28%
30
TS 4.0
+20%
TS 4.1
+20%
20
28 36
+20%
+25%
10
8
10
20 24
16 20
10 12
8
8-core vTS
+ co-res apps
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Media 310
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Media 320
Multiparty
Media 400v
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§  Embedded conferencing - Multisite
Endpoints capable of Multisite:
ü  SX20
ü  C40
ü  C60
ü  C90
ü  SX80
Part Numbers:
LIC-MX800-MS
LIC-MX700-MS
LIC-MX300-MS
LIC-MX200-MS
LIC-P65-C90-MS
LIC-P55DC60-MS
LIC-EX90-MS
LIC-INTP-C90-MS
PEX90
PMX200 G2
PMX300 G2
PMX700
PMX800
CUCM Endpoint Configuration
TC based Endpoint Configuration
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New TS Experience and Capabilities
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New Experiences
§  Improved graphics and user interface during conferences
§  Multistreaming on newer endpoints (experimental in TC 7.3)
§  Cascading support on TelePresence Server
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Active Speaker Indicator
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The Best Dual Screen Viewing Experience
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Experimental in TC 7.3
Experimental in TC 7.3
The Best Single Screen Experience
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Multistreaming
§  Introduction to SVC
§  Scalable Video Codec (SVC)
–  Standard protocol for encoding a high-quality video bitstream that also contains one or
more subset bitstreams.
–  The subset bitstream can represent a lower spatial resolution (smaller screen), lower
temporal resolution (lower frame rate), or lower quality video signal.
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Multistreaming
§  Overview of SVC
Temporal Scaling
Different frame rates
15 fps
7.5 fps
30 fps
Spatial Scaling
Different resolutions
180p
360p
720p
Quality Scaling
Different qualities
Signal to Noise (SNR) ratio
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Multistreaming
§  Overview of SVC
§  Encode a high fidelity source using multiple layers of increasing fidelity
Base Layer with lowest fidelity
360p 30Hz 0.5Mb/s
Spatial Enhancement Layer to increase resolution
720p 30Hz 1.0Mb/s
Temporal Enhancement Layer to increase frame rate 720p 60Hz 1.5Mb/s
Quality Enhancement Layer to increase bit rate
720p 60Hz 2.0Mb/s
§  Main motivation is scalable multiparty servers
–  Switching vs. transcoding, trading flexibility for scale and speed
§  Other benefits include rate adaptation and error resilience
§  Drawbacks include interoperability and lower coding efficiency
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‘Transcoded only’ Video
§  TS 4.0 and lower
§  In previous releases of TS, every
call would be transcoded
TelePresence Server
H.264 AVC
–  Decoded by the TS
–  Scaled as appropriate
–  Composited into a layout
–  Re-encoded into single video stream
H.264 AVC
Scalers
Drawbacks
Greatest possible
interoperability
Increased latency due to
decode/re-encode
No need for participants to
drop to highest common
resolution
Limited layout options on
receiving endpoint
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Compositor
Encoder
§  Each video stream is:
Benefits
Decoders
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‘Multistream’ Video
§  Some endpoints have the capability to send
multiple video streams to a bridge
§  This can include multiple copies of the same
stream at different resolutions
H.264 SVC
Switching ‘Fabric’
H.264 SVC
–  1080p, 720p and 360p
§  The bridge can then forward on (switch) the
different resolutions to each endpoint depending
on which streams they request
H.264 SVC
§  The endpoint can locally compose these streams
in a wide variety of combinations
Benefits
Drawbacks
Low latency, better video quality
due to no decode/re-encode
Requires endpoint support
Wider variety of layout options for
endpoint
Requires higher bandwidth in certain
situations
In a multistream only environment many
endpoints would not be supported…
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Hybrid Conferencing
§  Best of both worlds, combining benefits of multistreaming with the
interoperability of transcoding
§  Experimental feature in TC7.3. Full support expected in TC8.0 release
§  Available on the MultiParty Media 310, 320, 400v, and vTS platforms
§  Multistream available only on certain Cisco video endpoints
§  Only available in remotely managed mode (requires Conductor)
§  TS will continue to transcode video to/from legacy endpoints, and use
multistream switching wherever possible
§  No change in TS scale, initial release will consume same amount of resources
for multistream calls as transcoded calls
§  All content and all audio streams continue to be fully transcoded in this release
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Experimental in TC 7.3
Hybrid Conferencing
§  TS 4.1 and later
TelePresence Server
Switching Fabric
H.264 SVC
LD (ex. 180p, 360p)
H.264 SVC
Endpoints
HD (ex. 1080p, 720p)
H.264 SVC
Decoder
Encoder
H.264 AVC
H.264 AVC
Endpoints
Decoder
Encoder
Scaler
Compositor
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Experimental in TC 7.3
Hybrid Conferencing
§  Endpoints capable of multistreaming on a Hybrid Conference
SX10
Planned for
future release
SX20/MX200 G2/
MX300 G2
Required
Infrastructure
•  Unified CM 10.5(2) or later
Max of 4 streams
Max of 16 streams
•  Conductor XC3.0 or later
•  TC 7.3 or later (experimental)
SX80/MX700/800
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•  TelePresence Server 4.1 on
310, 320, 400v, or vTS
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Experimental in TC 7.3
Hybrid Conferencing
§  Enhanced User Experience
H.264 AVC
H.264 SVC
Max 2 video streams
(main and content video)
Max 16 video streams plus content
§  Having discrete video streams for each of the participants means those
endpoints that support multistream can better utilize their screen real estate.
§  Dual screen endpoints (MX700) can place participants on both screens
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