IP Phone Meet Me Service

[Jamie Weatherhead]

Afternoon all,

Our CUCM enovrionment consisits of mainly 7970 phones. We use the Meet Me feature that's provided with Call Manager.

We have set our 'Meet Me' parameters to 8 although the 'Suggested Value' is 4.

I actually changed this parameter to 32 and successfully managed to get 32 internal (concurrent) phones connected to a Meet Me session.

My question is this: If I ran a Meet Me session with this many phones included during a busy day, could this impact the stablilty of call processing of our Call Manager Cluster?

We have approximately 1000 phones which regsiter between 4 subscribers. Total overkill I know, but we're certainly not oversubscribed.

Please note, this is for internal calling purposes only.

Regards,

Jamie

[William Bell · Accepted solution]

You may want to consider running software media services on a dedicated server (or servers) in the cluster. 1,000 phones across 4 servers still doesn't tell the whole story. If you cluster is 4 nodes total, then your design may be right on par.  Depending on which server platform you are using. If you had 7835 servers, I would lean to the following node allocation:

1- Pub/TFTP

2- TFTP/software media services (MoH, software CFB, etc.)

3- Subscriber-1

4- Subscriber-2

I typically recommend separate software media processing from call processing if at all possible.

HTH.

Regards,
Bill