Data Sheet
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Version 5.0
A comprehensive management suite for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing solutions.
The Cisco® Unified Videoconferencing product line—an integral component of the Cisco Unified Communications system—facilitates face-to-face discussions among video conference participants in different locations. The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager provides the ability to easily schedule, scale, and control video conferences and to efficiently manage and monitor video conferencing network elements, providing an optimal visual communication experience and lower total cost of ownership.
The Cisco Unified Communications family of voice, video, and IP communications products and applications helps enable organizations to communicate more effectively—helping them streamline business processes, reach the right resource the first time, and reduce costs and maximize revenue. The Cisco Unified Communications system is an integral part of a complete, integrated business communications solution for organizations of all sizes that also includes network infrastructure, security, and network management products; wireless connectivity; a lifecycle services approach; and flexible deployment and outsourced management options, end-user and partner financing packages, and third-party communications applications.
SIMPLE AND FLEXIBLE VIDEOCONFERENCING SCHEDULING AND CONTROL
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager helps organizations of all sizes improve communications by using their video conferencing resources more effectively. The application enables any user to easily schedule video conferences from a Web browser or a Microsoft Outlook calendar where they can view, check availability, and reserve video resources, such as multipoint control units (MCUs) and gateways. The application minimizes complexity and ensures optimal resource usage by automatically communicating with multiple MCU and gateway devices across multiple geographical locations to reserve the appropriate resources at the most efficient locations. Additional features such as custom meeting templates that identify bandwidth, layout, and terminal setting preferences; Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration, e-mail notifications, and automatic dial-out to video terminals help make the scheduling and attending experience flexible and efficient, thereby reducing the need for help desk support and the total cost of ownership.
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager also helps improve meeting effectiveness by providing powerful in-meeting controls, such as the ability to invite new users, mute and unmute participants, and change the meeting video layout for any video conference on the network from a single, centralized Web user interface.
MORE SCALABLE AND EFFICIENT VIDEO CONFERENCING
SINGLE INTERFACE FOR VIDEO MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager provides a single, centralized Web interface where all video conferencing infrastructure and endpoint devices can be viewed, browsed, managed, and accessed directly. Devices that can be managed include the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing MCUs and gateways as well as the Cisco IOS® Gatekeeper. The network manager component of the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager also makes managing large numbers of endpoints more efficient by providing direct access to the
administrative interface of any endpoint in the network. The network management component also provides centralized and flexible call detail records (CDRs), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notifications, trap forwarding with customizable severity levels, and a centralized log of all solutionwide events and errors. By simplifying and consolidating administrative access and control, the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager helps improve availability and lower total cost of ownership of video conferencing deployments. UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS INTEROPERABILITY AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION
The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager and the rest of the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing product family is designed to protect customers’ investments by enabling multiple video conferencing usage models.
Traditional IP video conferencing
The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing product line offers flexibility, scalability, and performance for traditional room-based video conferencing deployments and desktop video conferencing with a wide variety of supported video endpoints, including H.320, H.323, Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP), and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices. The Cisco Unified
Videoconferencing Manager enhances the scalability, user capabilities, and administrative features of traditional video conferencing deployments to provide a market-leading end-to-end video conferencing solution.
Cisco Unified CallManager Video Telephony
Cisco Unified CallManager includes integrated video telephony functions so organizations can extend video communications to the desktop, making remote visual communications both more cost-effective and easier to use. Video calling is available from video-enabled products, such as Cisco Unified Video Advantage, the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7985G , Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, and third-party video offerings that support SCCP. Video is now as easy as a telephone call (Figure 1) and has familiar phone features and integrated dial plans. The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing infrastructure products provide multiparty impromptu conferences for Cisco video telephony environments. Initiating a video conference is as easy as pressing the conference button on a Cisco Unified IP phone or Cisco Unified Personal Communicator. Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager supports large-scale video telephony deployments by helping provide scalable, integrated multiparty video conferencing and automatic dial-out capabilities.
The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager can be used in both traditional room-based video conferencing and desktop video telephony environments simultaneously, maximizing investment.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
The Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager offers important features and benefits for videoconference users—and for your organization. Global, centralized view of all video endpoints and video conferencing network elements, enabling real-time control, monitoring, and maintenance of each device from a single interface
Easy Web-based scheduling and impromptu video conferencing, providing resource reservation and bandwidth monitoring Microsoft Outlook integration for scheduling meetings through familiar desktop applications
Comprehensive multiparty conference control, which allows users to easily invite additional attendees, mute and unmute participants, and change the meeting video layout in real time, even in meetings that use multiple video resources on the network New solution level features such as automatic MCU cascading, single dial-in, and global interactive voice response (IVR), which enable customers to easily and transparently scale the solution to large and geographically dispersed enterprise-class video conferencing deployments
Centralized and flexible CDRs for the entire video conferencing deployment, allowing easy access to the solution usage metrics that are most useful for the customer’s needs
Network management of the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing network devices, Cisco IOS Gatekeeper, and most third-party video conferencing endpoints from a single user interface, allowing efficient deployment, monitoring, and ongoing management of even large and dispersed deployments
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Table 1 lists the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager part numbers, Table 2 describes the product features, and Table 3 lists the product requirements and specifications.
Table 1. Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Product Part Numbers
Part Number Description Features
CUVC-MGR-5.0 Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Version 5.0 software
This software provides all product features noted in this data sheet; only the number of endpoints being managed are licensed options.
The software requires a minimum of 25 endpoint management licenses; It supports up to 300 endpoint licenses.
The software requires the purchase of the Cisco 7825 MCS Media Convergence Server (sold separately).
CUVC-MGR-LIC-25 (=) Twenty-five endpoint management licenses for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager
This configuration option on Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Version 5.0 has a minimum quantity of one (25 endpoints). It supports a maximum quantity of 12, or 300 endpoints total. End point licenses can be purchased as a configured option at the time of purchasing the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Version 5.0, or as spares at a later time to expand capacity. MCS-7825-I2-RC1 Cisco MCS 7825-I2 Unified
CallManager Appliance for rich-media communications
Refer to the Cisco MCS 7825-I2 data sheet for details:
http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/products_data_sheet0900aecd80456665.html MCS-7825-H2-RC1 Cisco MCS 7825-H2 Unified
CallManager Appliance for rich-media communications
Refer to the Cisco MCS 7825-H2 data sheet for details:
http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/products_data_sheet0900aecd80456641.html
Table 2. Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Features
Feature Description
Scheduling Offers Web-based intuitive scheduling interface as well as Microsoft Outlook Integration for simplified scheduling experience
Provides personal meeting templates for one-click meeting scheduling with predefined settings Provides personal address book—to easily retrieve favorite contacts during scheduling Offers attendees and endpoints availability check
Offers automatic invitation of endpoints (dial-out) Provides for recurring meetings
Offers e-mail notifications to meeting participants with individual dial-in information Offers point-to-point calls scheduling
Provides ability to set precedence for scheduled calls over impromptu point-to-point calls, based on resource availability Multiparty meeting control View and control meeting participants, even in multi-MCU deployments, from a single interface.
Invite or dial out to additional participants. Change screen layouts in real time. Extend the conference time.
Administrative features Customizable CDR for monitoring and billing purposes
Access reports and statistics for entire deployment from single user interface User time-zone management
Elements management Manages all video conferencing devices on the network, including gatekeepers, MCUs, and gateways as well as the video conferencing endpoints
Offers autodetection of video endpoints and network infrastructure devices to discover entire video conferencing network with a single click
Easy-to-use element browser Networkwide view of calls and conferences Drag-and-drop management
Ability to click an endpoint to open its individual Web management interface Endpoint management Autodiscovery of all endpoints
Centralized direct access to individual endpoint administration Webpages Monitoring and alerts Status and statistics of devices
SNMP notifications containing operational status information Customizable trap severity to fit any type of deployment
Display of events and errors received from elements for error management Trap forwarding to tier 3 manager supported
Multilingual support Administrator languages (for network manager component) English
Japanese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Korean
User languages (resource manager/scheduler component) English Japanese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Korean Portuguese German Italian Spanish French Russian
Table 3. Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Requirements and Specifications
Feature Specification
Server requirements Requires the Cisco MCS 7825; refer to Table 1 for model numbers and details
Web client requirements Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, or XP operating systems; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher Outlook add-on requirements Server: Microsoft Exchange 2000 or 2003 Server
CISCO UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND SUPPORT
Cisco Unified Communications services and support reduce the cost, time, and complexity associated with implementing a converged network. Cisco Systems® and its partners have designed and deployed some of today’s largest and most complex IP communications networks, meaning that they understand how to integrate a unified communications solution into your network.
Cisco design tools and best practices help ensure that the solution fits your business needs from the start, eliminating costly redesigns and downtime. The company’s proven methods help ensure a sound implementation that will deliver the functions and features that you expect—on time. Support services include remote network operations, network management tools to administer the converged application and network infrastructure, and technical support services.
