the difference between Telepresence Content Server and MSE 3500

[Mikhail Kalita]

Good day! Could someone explain me what's the difference between Telepresence Content Server and MSE 3500? Why do I need to obtain two these devices for sorting out my tasks? I want to understand gist of the first and the second devices.

[Jonathan Robb]

Hi Mikhail,

I would advise reviewing the following pages to get an idea of what each product is capable of:

For the TCS:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/conferencing/telepresence-content-server/index.html

For the MXE3500:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/video/mxe-3500-series-media-experience-engines/index.html

-Jonathan

[Patrick Sparkman]

In addition to what Jonathan posted above, here is a Capture Transform Share Solution Guide that goes over a little bit of what the TCS and MXE are and some possible deployment scenarios.

In short, TCS is used to record video conferences or lectures that can be streamed on demand or live using various streaming or distribution methods.  One such distribution method is using the MXE 3500 to ingest the recordings from TCS and convert them to different media types and add in-video content such as logos etc.  However, from the MXE, you can't send the video back to the TCS for viewing, you'd need to send that off to another viewing portal such as Show and Share.

[Mikhail Kalita]

Patrick, will I be able to download recorded files, store inside TCS or back up recorded session to another storage without MXE 3500?

[Patrick Sparkman]

You can download recorded videos from TCS, however TCS will not ingest videos that it didn't record itself.  You can use a NAS for external storage with the TCS, and is recommended as the hard drive on the server is only around 400GB, so if you plan on doing a lot of recording it can get full quick.  If you plan on streaming videos on demand from TCS through it's web interface, you'll need to keep the media files in place on whatever storage you use so the TCS can access them.

Suggest you take a look at the TCS Admin Guide for more details on it's capabilities.