Cisco Cloud Conferencing with
Collaboration Meeting Rooms
Architecture
Cisco Cloud Conferencing with Collaboration Meeting Rooms Architecture
Fayroz Mehdi , Product Sales Specialist.
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Agenda
Introduction
CMR Cloud Overview
User Experience
High Level Architecture
Deployment Models
Licensing and Availability
Key Takeaways
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People Want to Collaborate Their Way More Technology Choices Available Than Ever Before
They want mobility
They want applications that make them
more productive
They want easy and intuitive user experiences
They want device choice
They want collaboration with whom they want, however
they want it
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That Means High-Quality Video Collaboration − Anywhere, Anytime
Video-based meetings end
sooner and achieve better
results
Project management with
video = nine-fold increase
in performance
Participants in meetings
with video retain
information nearly 40%
better than with only phone
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Find a Balance Between User and IT Needs
IT
Key Concerns
Ease of use and quality
Enabling collaboration for
every user
Simplicity of deployment
Getting the best ROI from
new and existing
investments
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What If You Could Find a Solution That:
Helps ensure a consistent, business quality
video, voice, IM&P experience for every user,
from any video device?
Can offer flexible scale to allow you to extend
video collaboration to everyone in your
organization?
Works with your existing unified communications
deployment and helps ensure that your
infrastructure could support all communication
services?
Works with your existing deployment strategy,
whether on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid?
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With Cisco, You Can
Bringing Cisco’s industry-leading, proven video collaboration infrastructure and Cisco WebEx® cloud conferencing services together
Cisco® Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) One Meeting, One Experience
One meeting: Scheduled, instant, or always-on personal meeting
rooms with audio, video, and data sharing
Broad endpoint support: Join and participate in meetings using any
standards-based video device
Flexible deployments: On premises, hybrid, and in cloud
Smooth scalability: Enable everyone to join your meeting
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Increase Productivity
Easily meet with anyone online to present, share and collaborate from any device with WebEx Meeting Center
Make Faster Decisions
Lower Costs, Decrease Travel
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WebEx Market Share Leader for Global SaaS Web Conferencing
Cisco WebEx
Leads the Market
50% Market Share
Source: Synergy Research 2013
Cisco WebEx 50%
InterCall 4%
Adobe 5%
Others 9%
Citrix Online 20%
Microsoft 11%
Synergy Research Q1 2014 report
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3+ Billion meeting minutes per month
52+ Million meeting attendees per month
Over 12+ million registered hosts worldwide
7.3+ Million mobile downloads
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WebEx Meeting Center At-a-Glance Industry-Leading Web Conferencing and Video Conferencing
• Dynamic meeting experience with integrated audio, high-definition video, and content sharing
• Document, application, desktop sharing
• Ad-hoc and scheduled meetings, including scheduling with Outlook and Lotus Notes
• Meeting recordings and playback
• Videoconferencing with Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms
• Supported on mobile devices
Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone 8
• Consistent, cross-platform experience
Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix
Available in 13 languages
• Integrates with Cisco solutions
• Securely delivery from the Cisco WebEx Cloud
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Hub
Cisco WebEx Cloud
Cisco WebEx Cloud Secure, global meetings delivered by Cisco
Global Scale
Optimized for Collaboration and Content Distribution
Highly Availability, Performance/Speed
Multi-layer Security
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All the Tools You Need Keep all team members productive and engaged
Mobile A rich experience on your device – supported on every major platform
Document, application and
desktop sharing Share high-impact, media-rich content.
High-definition video Active speaker switching, full-screen video
Works with Cisco solutions Use WebEx with Cisco Jabber and Cisco TelePresence
Integrated hybrid audio Telephony, VoIP or mixed mode options
Collaboration Meeting Rooms Always-on video collaboration service
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Dedicated Personal Room Permanent Personalized Video Conferencing Space
Your own permanent conference room with a customizable web address to join and start meetings faster
• Always available
• Set up a custom or vanity URL specific to you
• Host lobby management
• Room can be locked/unlocked
• Manage attendees waiting in the lobby
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A New Era of Collaboration
Simple collaboration
Few video options
Face-to-face meetings
On-premises deployment
Spontaneous discussions
Video on any device
Many methods
of collaboration
Extend to cloud
deployment
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms One Meeting. One Experience.
Scalable
Connected Flexible
Delightful Experience
Secure
Common In-Meeting Experiences
Cloud Elasticity & Premise Control
Flexibility for Any Use Case
Quick Enablement
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CMR Cloud
Hosted by Cisco WebEx
CMR Hybrid
TelePresence on Premise plus
Cisco WebEx
CMR Premise
TelePresence infrastructure @
Customer Datacenter
Collaboration Meeting Rooms Deployment Options
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) Cloud
One Meeting – Combined WebEx Personal Room with WebEx Video Bridge from the WebEx Cloud
Superior Scale – Up to 25 video endpoints, up to additional 500 video-enabled WebEx users, & up to additional 500 audio-only WebEx users in one meeting Industry Leading Proven Technology – WebEx Meeting Center & Cisco TelePresence
Join From Anywhere – From the pocket to the boardroom with true platform independence including SIP, H.323 and Lync
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Personal Room A personalized, always-available
collaboration meeting resource for every user – Just Meet – Anytime
CMR Cloud – Meet Your Way
Scheduled For reserving conference rooms using
Outlook, using normal work flows, or
via WebEx site scheduling
Instant (One-Click) On-demand, one-click meeting –
Start from Outlook, Jabber or WebEx site
Join on Video or WebEx
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Cisco CMR Cloud Capability
Users
Video
In-Meeting
Controls
End-to-End Security
• 1025 Concurrent Users Per Meeting
• Up to 25 SIP or H.323 video conferencing or Lync endpoints
• Up to additional 500 WebEx® video participants in a single meeting
• 500 audio-only WebEx users
• Video 720p 30 fps and content to 720p 5fps with support for
standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) content
• Single and multiscreen standards-based telepresence systems
• See all meeting participants in a unified participant list
• Mute, unmute, and drop any participant
• Lock meeting to prevent unintended participants from joining
• Record sessions with video, audio, and content for future viewing
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Collaboration Improves With Cisco CMR Cloud
• Scale from 1 to 100’s of
concurrent participants
• Enable quicker user adoption
• Reduce complexity
• Join from any video device
• Respond quicker to market
and business needs
• Pay as a monthly subscription
• Reduce travel costs
• Leverage existing investments
Scale
Reach & Capacity
Optimize
Cost Savings
Improve IT
Flexibility & Agility
Increasing Business Value
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Meeting Experience
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Schedule A Meeting
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• See all meeting participants in a unified roster list
• Mute, unmute and drop any participant
• Lock your meeting to prevent unintended participants from joining
• Record your sessions with video, audio and content for future viewing and sharing
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Join From Video Conferencing Devices
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Collaboration Meeting Rooms Hybrid WebEx Meeting Center and On Premises Videoconferencing Together
Schedule
Once
Launch
With a Click
Meet
With Anyone,
Anywhere
WebEx Meeting Center and/or
TelePresence Conferences
Video, Voice, and Content in One Seamless Experience
End-to-End Security
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Customer Experience
Integrated
Scheduling
Engaging Video Experience
Data and
Application Sharing
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Personal Room Experience
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What are Personal Rooms and CMR Cloud?
Room Type Capabilities
Personal Rooms Your Personal Room provides an easy to remember destination for
meetings.
• Each WebEx Meeting Center host has a PMR
• Persistent
• Vanity URL
• Host lobby management (room can be locked)
Collaboration Meeting Rooms Cloud
(CMR Cloud)
All capabilities of a Personal Room including:
• Cloud-based video bridging enables users to join from any standards
based video endpoint
• SIP URI
• Additional license/add-on service subscription required
CMR Cloud represents an upgrade opportunity for existing WebEx customers
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Join A Personal Room
Use a PMR for impromptu meetings
Anywhere, anytime
Each Host has a:
• Web URL for WebEx
https://<sitename>.webex.com/join/<username>
• Video address (SIP or H.323)
<username>@<sitename>.webex.com
Landing page with different join methods
Easy bookmark for quick access
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• Enter a meeting room URL
• e.g. site.webex.com/join/jsmith
• Join and wait in the lobby until the host joins
• Attendees cannot hear, see, chat, share until the host joins
Attendee Joins From Browser
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• Enter meeting room URL
• e.g. site.webex.com/join/jsmith
• Or sign into My WebEx and select Personal CMR
• When the host joins, attendees can setup audio, share video, chat, present
Host Joins From Browser
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Host May Allow Meeting to Continue After Leaving
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• Host locks room during meeting
• Subsequent attempts to join greeted with “host has restricted access to the room” message
Host Locks Room For Privacy
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• Dial meeting room video address:
• <username>@<sitename>.webex.com
• Audio IVR requests the host pin or press # to wait for the host
• Wait in the lobby until the host joins
• Attendees cannot hear, see, chat, share until the host joins
Attendee Joins From Telepresence
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• Dial meeting room video address:
• <username>@<sitename>.webex.com
• Audio IVR requests the host pin or press # to wait for the host
• Host enters pin
• Once the host joins, attendees can begin to hear, see, share
Host Joins From TelePresence
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Required: WBS29.7 minimum for WebEx mobile clients to join
Scheduled meetings are Collaboration Meeting Rooms (Not Personal meeting rooms)
Ad-hoc meetings and Instant meetings are held in Personal Meeting Rooms (accessible via “Meet Now”)
Mobility Collaboration Meeting Rooms & Personal Meeting Rooms
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Personal Meeting room can be initiated from mobile clients
Hosts can lock their meeting rooms from the app to disallow any additional participants
When attendees join the meeting room before the host has joined, they will be in a waiting room or lobby like experience
Filmstrip view of all the Webex Participants
Mobility Personal Meeting Rooms
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Support for Content sharing through Box, Dropbox, Google drive.
Attendees can grab the presenter ball to share content
Limited support for Annotations
Mobility Personal Meeting Rooms – Content Sharing
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Preferred Architecture
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CMR Hybrid Architecture
Csco WebEx Cloud
CUCM
VCS- Control BE 6000
DMZ
Lync
Edge
TMS TS(MCU) Multipoint
Infrastructure
Lync Clients
2010/2013 PSTN/TSP
Audio/CCA
Expressway-C Expressway-E
TMS-XE
* No support for Conductor till Q2FY15
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Preferred CMR Cloud Architecture
Call Control
and
Registration
CUCM
VCS-
Control
BE 6000
3rd Party
3rd Party
DMZ
Expressway-C Expressway-E
Lync
Edge
Lync Clients
2010/2013 PSTN/TSP
Audio/CCA Lync Server
Csco WebEx Cloud
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Call Control
and
Registration
CUCM
VCS-
Control
BE 6000
3rd Party
3rd Party
DMZ
Lync
Edge
Lync Clients
2010/2013 PSTN/TSP
Audio/CCA Lync Server
Csco WebEx Cloud
VCS-Control VCS-Expressway
Preferred CMR Cloud Architecture with VCS