Minimum PVDM3 Cards for a Homogeneus Video Conference.

[Juan Gerardo Hernandez]

Hi Everyone.

How are you?

I am trying to build a lab for the CCIE, and I am considering to buy a 2901 ISR Gen 2 router to configuring Video Conference.

I have seen out there, there are PVDM3-16 selling in eBay, I wanted to know the minimum amount of PVDM I need to create a vied-conference 3 participants using the an standard Video codec.

I plan to use the 2901 Router to be my HQ router and it will have the following.

* Conference Resources.

* Frame Relay HWIC

* T1 PRI VWIC

What do you think guys, can you help me?

[Jaime Valencia]

Using PVDM3 for video conferencing has been deferred for quite some time now, neither the IOS nor new CUCM releases have the option now.

And you required a PVDM3-128 for that.

[Wilson Samuel]

Just adding to Jamie's point (I guess he is encouraging us to use 4k routers), with a 3 Party H264-VGA on G711 VC should be done on a PVDM3-64 with a full T1

However rather than going for a 1xPVDM3-64 I would go for 2, and in case you need you can use both, you are good.

Test in the lab, and if you can get by with just 1xPVDM3-64, then you can return the unused PVDM3

(Ebay usually has return policy)

HTH

Plz rate all helpful posts.

[Jaime Valencia]

Not really, you cannot do video conferencing on ISR 4K either, you need vTP, MCU or CMS.

[martyn.rees]

It's kind of a tricky one given that it is still currently in the CCIE, but is also a feature that has been removed like Jaime mentioned.