video call with CME 2921

[ahmed_843]

first I am very happy for being part of a Cisco community  

i have 6 international site in each site  the user  from 10 to 15 , and i need use video call between these sits , (now the scenario)> i but in each site call manager express ( CME ) 2921 with 1 GB DRAM , all sites connect with each other Through E1 conection  ,  please advice me about this Questions

1- CME can work with vedio call

2- wich IOS version i need for video Feature

3- The CME 2921 Enough or i need better box 

and thx for help ....

[Vishal Mohanty]

Hello Ahmed,

Welcome to the Cisco family!! :-)

To answer your questions:

1) Yes CME supports Video calls; as usual there are some restrictions and some pre-requisites. I would suggest to go through the feature document that will answer your questions in detail:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmevideo.html#wp1012200

2) I would suggest 15.1(4)M or 15.1(4)M1 (which will be coming out in the later part of June). This IOS version will give you the lastets version of CME 8.6. The above document also lists the minimum CME versions required for Video support in case you do not prefer to use 15.1(4)M at this point of time.

FYI, this page shows your what CME version is in what IOS version and its specifications and also has links to the documentation and release notes:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/requirements/guide/33matrix.htm

3) 2921 should work fine.

Hope this helps,

Vishal

[Adrian Saavedra]

Hello,

If you follow Vishal's suggestion about using IOS 15.1(4)M, you could use IOS video conferencing/transcoding services on the ISR G2 with PVDM3 (then you don't need MCU).

Video Conferences:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmevconf.pdf

Video xcoding:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmevtrns.pdf

Hope it helps, please rate if it does.

-- Adrian.

[mohammad saeed]

Hello, 

the links are down, is there any links updated? Thanks

[Jaime Valencia]

If you mean the ones Adrian posted, those features have been deprecated for many years now, that's why documentation no longer exists. 

[mohammad saeed]

Hi Jaime, So is there any updated documents regarding using Video with CME?

[Jaime Valencia]

The CME admin guide.