Cisco MCU 5310 integrate with Cisco Spark Room

[helawamry]

Hi,

I have customer running MCU 5310 as standalone VC resource(without VCS or CUCM) and 6 SX20 devices, the customer initiate conference on MCU 5310 then it dials SX20 devices for handling the conference.
The customer willing to purchase Spark Room device and make it runs like the previous scenario like SX20 devices, can Spark Room integrate with MCU 5310 and accept dialing from MCU 5310 for joining conference.

Thanks,

Haitham 

[PJMack]

A Spark registered endpoint can dial a SIP URI no problem, but if your MCU is not registered to any call control and the only way to dial into it is via IP it won't work. If you set up expressway so that the 5310 is reachable from the internet via URI/DNS dialing you would be able to dial into it from Spark. 

That said - if they migrate their endpoints over to Spark they would be better off just using the bridging capability of Spark over the legacy MCU anyway. 

[Patrick Sparkman · Accepted solution]

Assuming that your SX20s have no issue connecting to your MCU 5310 in their current configuration, than a Room Series endpoint shouldn't have no issue as they can be configured the same way.  You'd need to purchase the Room Series endpoint under GPL pricing which allows you to use it on-premise, as MSRP is registered only to Spark in the cloud.  With all of that said, I'd recommend you look into upgrading your MCU 5310 as they have been eos since May 2017 and software maintenance is soon to stop May 2018, see eos-eol-notice-c51-738140, on-premise replacement is Cisco Meeting Server or you could register your SX20 and Room Series endpoints to Spark utilizing cloud conferencing.