Multiparty conference with C40/MX200 and Bluejeans

[mirehteshamali]

Hello Experts , 

i have a generic query , we have an head office where we using cisco C40 to join Video conference using bluejeans . with 8 participants . 

within same campus network we have 1) C40 and 2) three other rooms with PC. 

ie 3 participants are on same campus (connected by fiber)  as of Cisco c40. These three joins using windows PC with large screen/mic setup. All of them joins the video conference from same internet connection, to Bluejeans cloud. 

on the other side , remote branches has their dedicated Wan/internet connections with CISCO MX200

device to join the conference. 

This counts as 8 seats/participants 

As campus participants are increasing , Now we are trying to have all campus participants , (behind same Gig/LAN network but in different rooms)  , to appear as  one participant  ie one seat. to save the cost from cloud provider . :-)

So two queries 

A) Any solution to multiplex these on campus participants  and send them as single participant f ?

    (from C40 or any other device that can achieve this) 

or

B) should we look forward for any value/economic on-premise  video conference solution with just 10-15 participants  ?

any thoughts 

[skilambi]

It comes down to how you are licensed.  From the way you are describing it it seems you are licensed on ports ie connections. 

You should be looking at named user host model. In that model the person who hosts the meeting takes a license not the folks joining the meeting. 

Cisco webex could be a good one now to compare against. With Cisco you not only have the host model, but there is also an active user model which blue jeans AFAIK doesn’t do. In this model you can start small with the hosts and they let all employees in your company host meetings but in year one you don’t pay even for more hosts started meetings, you only pay for that small number you committed to. In year two it will be right sized 

There is also a model called shared meetings where you pay based on max number of concurrent meetings not ports but meetings which is also unique 

In addition blue Jean doesn’t have the concept of a video mesh node which is a headless server that can combine streams on premise to keep the bandwidth on the internet optimized vs sending all individual streams to the cloud 

You can google that and get design guides also called hybrid media node back in the day 

Cloud will provide more scalability and faster updates so I would lean in that direction vs on premises even if the cost might be lesser since long term that’s the strategy  

Thanks

Srini