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RADVISION | Administrator Guide for SCOPIA Elite 5100 Series MCU Version 7.7
Planning your MCU Deployment
When planning your MCU deployment, it is important to consider both bandwidth usage and port
security, as described in the following sections:
• Planning your Distributed or Centralized Topology for MCU............................. page 7
• Ports to Open for the SCOPIA Elite 5100 Series MCU..................................... page 10
Planning your Distributed or Centralized Topology for MCU
When your organization has more than one site, like a headquarters and several branches,
RADVISION offers a unique method of cutting video bandwidth costs. Administrators can choose
whether to place all MCUs centrally in the headquarters (Figure 2-1 on page 8), or they can opt
for a distributed deployment, where multiple MCUs are spread over multiple sites (Figure 2-2 on
page 9).
Centralized MCU deployments can be expensive for frequent conferences between branches with
multiple participants from each site, since each participant must utilize extra bandwidth on the
WAN connection between sites (Figure 2-1 on page 8).