Specifications

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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express, part of the Cisco Unified Communications family of products, is an
integrated voice, Web, and video conferencing solution that helps midsize organizations realize the cost
savings and productivity benefits of deploying conferencing over internal networks. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
Express provides simple, powerful conferencing functions that are easy to deploy and manage. As a component
of the Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express delivers productivity that
goes beyond traditional conferencing solutions by enabling rich-media conferencing used in a broad range of
communication scenarios.
Key Features
• Cost savings and security—Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express is deployed in-house on an organization’s
converged IP network, a scenario that can reduce costs by virtually eliminating conferencing telephony and
service fees paid to service providers.
• Easy deployment and management—Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express is a software solution installed on
a single server that supports industry-standard protocols (H.323 and SIP), to help ensure connectivity with a
range of telephony systems, including Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified
Communications Manager Express.
• Simple conference setup and attendance—Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express includes Microsoft Outlook,
Web, Cisco Unified IP Phone, and touchtone phone interfaces for setting up and attending meetings. In a
single step, meeting organizers can initiate an immediate (reservationless) voice, Web, and video conference
from any of these interfaces.
• Advanced voice, web, and video conferencing—Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express tightly integrates voice,
Web, and video conferencing capabilities, making it well-suited for interactive meetings and presentations.
Meeting attendees experience high-quality voice conferencing, and video participants see the person who is
speaking or the person who last spoke.
• Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express provides innovative meeting-management functions that facilitate more
productive meetings. From the Web interface, users can mute and unmute themselves, see who is in the
meeting and how they are participating (voice, video, or Web), see who is speaking, and see who is sharing
content.
• Cisco Unified Personal Communicator users can share content through a simple screen-sharing interface
served by Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express. In addition to adding impromptu Web conferencing support,
Cisco Unified Personal Communicator environments can add multiparty voice and video capabilities with
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT.
• Security—Security features include Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption; behind-the-firewall deployment;
and multiple meeting security options, including meeting access authentication and in-meeting controls such
as “lock-meeting” and “remove-participants” functions. The solution offers Internet lockout controls; meetings
can be set up as internal-only meetings and held entirely behind the corporate firewall or as external meetings
that are accessible to Internet and internal participants. Administrators and meeting organizers have complete
control.
Specifications
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express
Feature Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express
IP Phone Application
Compatibility
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940 Series, Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960 Series, Cisco Unified IP
Phone 7970 Series, Cisco IP Communicator
Capacity
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express can support a variety of combinations of voice, web, and
video conferencing capacity, as well as varying amounts of recording capacity. The maximum
meeting size is 200 concurrent users of voice conferencing, 200 concurrent users of web
conferencing, and 200 concurrent users of video conferencing.
Call Control System
Compatibility
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 3.3 or later (video is supported with version
4.1 or later, 5.1 or later, and 6.0 or later)
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express 3.3 or later (does not support video in
meetings)
• Standards-based H.323 * or SIP ** call-control systems
Platform
Cisco Media Convergence Servers
• Voice, web, and video conferencing media convergence server part numbers—MCS-7825-
H3-RC1, MCS-7825-I3-RC1, MCS-7825-H2-RC1, MCS-7825-I2-RC1, MCS-7825-H1-RC1, MCS-
7825-I1-RC1, MCS-7835-H2-RC1, MCS-7835-I2-RC1, MCS-7835-H1-RC1, MCS-7835-I1-RC1,
MCS-7845-H2-RC1, MCS-7845-I2-RC1, MCS-7845-H1-RC1, and MCS-7845-I1-RC1
• Media-convergence-server part numbers for voice conferencing with lite meeting room
only—MCS-7825H-3.0-IPC1, MCS-7825I-3.0-IPC1, MCS-7835H-3.0-IPC1, MCS-7835I-3.0-
IPC1, and MCS-7845H-3.0-IPC1 (supports web conferencing)
Plus exact equivalent third-party servers (for information, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly;
DVD drive required)