Telepresence question

[dijeshkeloth]

We have a site with 1 call manager publisher, 1 subscriber and 2 Cisco Multiparty Media 410v Server. We will install one cisco telepresence server on each of the Multiparty Media 410v Server. Can you please let us know if we can setup the cisco telepresence server in an active-active mode to have efficient use of the video resources? If not, is there any other way to use both the telepresence servers in an efficient way? Please note that we do not have conductor in our setup. Thanks for your help

[ucanduc]

Telepresence Server installation on Multiparty Media 410v is available as Virtual Machine on VMWare ESXi.

Virtual Telepresence Server is only supported along with Cisco Conductor. So you need to include Conductor in your setup.

What type of licenses do you have ? Is it Screen License or Multiparty License ?

You also need to confirm that you have Conductor licenses because Conductor without license can only manage a single Telepresence Server or MCU. For more than 1 (2 in your case), you need Conductor license.

For efficiency, kindly note that this is exactly the role of Conductor. It's an orchectrator and an optimizer of MCU & (V)TS resources.

[dijeshkeloth]

Thanks Mohamed and Patrick for the answers.

If we have many clusters interconnected by MPLS cloud, with each cluster having local virtual telepresence servers, how do we ensure that the users use the local telepresence server for any video conferences between them?

[Patrick Sparkman]

As Mohamed mentions TelePresence Server running on MM410v is virtual and requires Conductor to function.  Using Conductor you can create an active/passive or active/active deployment, it all depends on how you setup the conference bridge pools and service preferences.

If you're using screen licenses, than those are installed on the TelePresence Servers directly and cannot be shared between servers, however if you're using multiparty licensing (PMP or SMP) than those are installed on Conductor and can be used by any TelePresence Server that Conductor manages.