Cisco Meeting Place

  Agenda 

• Overview 
• Solution Requirements 
• Conference Manager 
• Failover  
• Network Management
• Backup

Overview

MeetingPlace  gives a overall collaborative experience with on-campus audio and video 
conferencing capabilities , and can be integrated with WebEx meeting softwares and hardwares.

 Features and Capabilities: 

▸  Offers additional scalability for enterprise organizations, supporting up to 14,400

    concurrent attendees system wide  

▸  Better meets the needs of large, global customers, with support for distributed,multinode

     deployments

▸  Has improved deployment flexibility with support for virtualization on the UCS platform 

▸  Is easier to license (with user-based licensing) and integrate to existing WebEx sites

▸  The MeetingPlace 8 audio bridge product was designed for company to serve a very 

      limited function.  This product will be used to host the scheduled Board of Director meetings 

      periodically throughout the year.  It will also be used by senior executives to host ad hoc 

      meetings.  

BOARD OF DIRECTOR SCHEDULED MEETINGS

▸ The company wishes to mimic the same call flow as a carrier based Conference Bridge.  This is where the caller dials the conference bridge number and enters a meeting ID.  After that, the caller should be placed immediately into the conference bridge.   

EXECUTIVE MEET ME BRIDGE

▸  The senior executives require an audio conference bridge for ad hoc meetings that will not require a profile or a meeting ID to enter the conference bridge.  They wish to dial into a bridge number and be immediately placed into the conference

▸  Users with Profile

▸  All board members will have a profile with two telephone numbers defined.  When they call in from one of these numbers, they should be prompted to enter the meeting ID.

▸  Guest users

▸  Callers without a profile or those calling from unidentified telephone numbers should experience the same call flow as the profiled users.  

 Solution Requirements

▪ MeetingPlace 8 System with failover

▪ Express Media Server – software audio ports

▪ IP Based, 50 Ports system

▪ SIP Integration of CUCM cluster with MP 8 System - CUCM Version 7.13

▪ Scheduled meetings via Conference Manager

▪ “MeetMe” meetings always available (Direct DID dial in)

▪ The CISCO music should be removed as a greeting when they dial in along with the “Welcome to

  CISCO MeetingPlace message.  This greeting should be replaced with a bank provided script.

▪ Customized Prompts

▪ Silenced Prompts

▪ Audio Only conferencing

▪ No Meeting Recording

▪ No Email Integration

▪ No Directory Services integration with CUCM 

▪ Admin Assistant will schedule all meetings from Conference Manager.  

▪ Email notifications will be disabled.. 

▪ Recordings will be disabled. 

▪ “MeetMe” codes will be configured as route patterns in CUCM pointing to the MP SIP trunk and meetings will be created associated with those “MeetMe” codes. 

▪ Admin Assistant will record the Board of Directors voiced name for their MP profiles. 

▪ Customized prompts will also be created.  

MeetingPlace Phone View

      Cisco MeetingPlacecan also be accessed through an IP Phone Service. This service allows the end user to:  Join a meeting by entering the ID,  Start a reservationless meeting ,View Today’s Meetings , Access any Continuous Meetings.

Failover   
 

 ■  For Application Server redundancy, two Application Servers-an active and a standby-will be deployed as part of one logical site. The active Application Server runs all processes and subsystems, while the standby Application Server only runs the database and Apache Tomcat processes and subsystems.  

■  If the active Application Server fails, then you can activate the standby Application Server and place the previously active Application Server in standby mode.This procedure is manual. 

■  In the event of a failure, the end users will usually experience some or all of the following:

• MeetingPlace Server is unresponsive  
• Busy 
• Ring no answer 

 Network Management

SNMP traps are used for network management purpose

Backup 
 

▪ The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace backup and restore functions ensure that the system can recover with minimal data loss in case of database failure or corruption. To back up data to a remote device on the network, you must have an SFTP or FTP server configured.