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Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server
Advanced Video Applications, Session Control, and Firewall Traversal
As the workforce becomes more mobile and distributed, leaders recognize the benefits and growing impact of
video as a key part of business collaboration. Video is being used to improve communications, relationships, and
productivity by helping people meet face-to-face over distances. These meetings:
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Improve decision making by reducing communications delay
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Build trust and understanding across time zones within cross-functional and diverse teams
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Reduce employee travel, real-estate costs, and environmental impact
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Encourage information sharing and knowledge building with employees, partners, and customers
It's all part of engagement - making it easy and natural for people to collaborate - and Cisco is taking these
interactions to the next level. Video collaboration experiences are available anywhere, and are as easy as voice.
For many use cases, these experiences are better than being there.
Cisco TelePresence
®
Video Communication Server (VCS) is at the heart of these experiences. Cisco VCS delivers
rich video-enabled collaboration throughout and beyond the enterprise network, and is ideal for organizations that
do not have Cisco
®
call control environments but want to use Cisco TelePresence conferencing applications.
Product Overview
Cisco VCS comprises Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Control (VCS Control) and Cisco
TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway (VCS Expressway) to enable smooth video
communications easily and securely inside and outside the enterprise.
Cisco VCS Control provides video call and session control, registrations, and enhanced security for Cisco
TelePresence conferences. It enables definition of aspects such as routing, dial plans, and bandwidth usage, while
allowing organizations to define video call-management applications, customized to their requirements.
For organizations that need video collaboration beyond the enterprise, Cisco VCS Expressway is required
alongside Cisco VCS Control. Cisco VCS Expressway allows video traffic to traverse the firewall securely, enabling
rich video communications with partners, customers, suppliers, and mobile and teleworkers.
Important use cases for Cisco VCS include:
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Business-to-business video: Using Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) dialing, you can collaborate with
customers, partners, and suppliers as easily and securely as you do with email messages. No
prearrangements are needed. And, if your partners, suppliers, or customers have a third-party standards-
based H.323, H.264 switched virtual circuit (SVC), or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) system, you can
collaborate with them too - as easily as you do with those people in your own office.
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Mobile video experiences using Cisco Jabber
®
for TelePresence (formally Movi
™
) clients: Secure
mobile access based on Transport Layer Security (TLS), Cisco Jabber
®
for TelePresence mobile lets you
make and receive video calls without requiring the extra step of a VPN.
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