New to video (tanberg)

[billmatthews]

Hello all,

I'm familar with Cisco's voice applications (CUCM/UCCX), but I've never worked with video.

One  video environment I've gotten to take alook at has some Tanberg  infrastructure, but I'm afraid I have no clue what any of it does.   Could someone give me a quick explanation of these components?  I don't  plan to manage/administer any of this -- just looking to understand what  the pieces are and how they work together.

Tanberg VCS Expressway

Tandberg VCS Video Communication Server

Tandberg TMS TelePresence Management Server

Tandberg TCS TelePresence Content Server

Tandberg MXP6000

Thanks

Bill

[Jonathan Schulenberg · Accepted solution]

VCS Control and Expressway handle endpoint registrations and call routing. Specifically Control resides behind the firewall while Expressway is in the DMZ to handle external calls or endpoints. Depending upon the topology and size there may be multiple Control/Expressway systems or clusters.

TMS manages the endpoints (e.g. phonebooks, settings management, etc), provides scheduling, monitoring, and other administrative duties.

Content Server provides call recording capabilities.

MXP6000 is an endpoint. Additional details of each are available in their respective data sheets.

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[billmatthews]

Perfect, thank you

[billmatthews]

I was able to find datasheets on the first four items. 

But I'm having trouble finding info on the MXP 6000.  Most of them are EoL, so not a lot on the Cisco site.  I also can't tell if the MXP is just the endpoint appliance?  I also see this environment has something called an Edge 95.  Is that the camera that goes with the MXP6000, or is that a specific type of MXP6000?

Thanks again

[Jens Didriksen · Accepted solution]

Don't understand what you mean by "appliance", 6000MXP is the endpoint (codec) - Edge 95MXP is another type of endpoint.

Edit: Just Google Tandberg 6000MXP - plenty of info out there.

/jens


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[Martin Koch · Accepted solution]

Jens: And he will most likely not understand what a codec is :-)

Bill:

In short codec = the main unit of the video conferencing system, appliance = black box by vendor x

so in short,... sounds like the same here.

The complete videoconferencing system might be multiple devices, like the codec (edge series, mxp series,...)

and the camera (precision HD). So it can be that you have the same type of camera but different types of

codecs.

Like Jens said, some googling will tell you more :-)

[billmatthews]

Thank you all.  Yes, for some reason I always thought of codec as software (as in voice codecs).  But now I see that in the video world it also refers to the hardware that does the encoding/decoding.