Cisco Videoconferencing

[Bekzod Fakhriddinov]

Hi Guys . Sorry for this "stupid " questions, but I got confused by reading documentations and what we need . 

1. Is Cisco VCS can work as  Bridge, as it is  Cisco TelePresence vcs ? 

2. If we have VCS-E & VCS-C do we need separate MCU or Cisco TelePresence Server or not ? 

[Joe Vallender]

VCS's provide routing of calls only.  Endpoints registered to a VCS may have limited multipoint bridging capabilities or a Telepresence Server/MCU would be needed to bridge calls.

[Bekzod Fakhriddinov]

Ok, I found out its different for different deployments : if we have CMR cloud we don't need TMS and Telepresence Server/MCU. Book "Cisco WebEx Meeting Center with Collaboration Meeting Rooms Enterprise Deployment Guide (v2)"

If we have CMR Hybrid we do need Telepresence Server/MCU. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/tms/release_note/cmr_hybrid_RNs_15_0.html

[Ammar Saood]

Yes you are right.

Normal WebEx doesnt support joining via Video Endpoints. 

if you have WebEx on Cloud CMR cloud that means you are using Cisco conference resources TPS/MCU/CMS etc. so you dont need an on-prem conferencing solution. you can also join using Video Endpoints. but you cannot have OBTP and outlook scheduling etc.

but if you are using CMR hybrid, then you need TMS as well as TPS on premises so you can leverage your existing infrastructure,OBTP, Schedule and join using Cisco Endpoints.

HTH

AMMAR

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