Telepresence Items questions

[Yazen Alaa]

Dear All

i have customer that has a VCS express , VCS control , TMS,Conductor , MCU and Telepresence server , and it doesnt has a CUCM PBX it has a nortel PBX , my Questions are mentioned below : 

- why the customer has Conductor and Telepresence server in his scenario ?

- what is the different between Conductor and Telepresence server ?

- what is the different between MCU and Conductor and Telepresence server ?

thanks

[George Thomas]

Short answer is: Conductor is used to manage Telepresence server and MCU. The conductor will do resource pooling, conference failover amongst other things. It also helps with Optimized conferencing. The Telepresence server and MCU have different functionalities but fundamentally they are conference bridges. Why would you have Telepresence server and MCU depends on what the customer was looking to do and will be difficult to comment on.

[Wayne DeNardi]

Good answer by George (+ points for that).

For the difference between a TelePresence Server and a MCU, have a look at this other thread: https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12209476/what-difference-between-mcu-cisco-telepresence-server

Wayne