What's New In Ce8.3 - Cisco TelePresence SX20 Codec Reference Manual

Cisco TelePresence SX20 Codec
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Introduction Introduction

What's new in CE8.3

This section provides an overview of the new and
changed system settings, and the new features and
improvements in the Cisco Collaboration Endpoint
software version 8.3 (CE8.3) compared to CE8.2.
The list of new commands includes all changes from
CE8.2 to CE8.3.
As CE software is based on TC7, the structure and main
functionality remains the same as in TC software.
For more details, we recommend reading the Software
release notes:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/collaboration-
endpoints/telepresence-quick-set-series/
products-release-notes-list.html
It is important to consider the upgrade
requirements of CE8 before upgrading; other-
wise upgrading to CE8 can leave you with a
non-functioning deployment that requires you to
downgrade.
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New features and improvements
Control of an external video switch with additional input
sources
You can customize our touch user interfaces to include input
sources that are connected to third-party external video
switches. These external input sources will appear and
behave just as a video source that is connected directly to
the video system. You don't have to swap cables or change
the physical input source manually.
The number of external input sources you can create
depends on how many inputs the video switches allow. Cisco
recommends maximum 50 sources.
The video switch must be supported by a third-party control
system, for example from Crestron or AMX, which can inter-
act with the video system's xAPI. It is the control system, not
the video system, that controls the video switch.
For more information about how to customize the user
interface, and how to use the xAPI to set up this feature,
refer to the user guide:
in-room-control-docs
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ActiveControl in CMS 2.1 hosted conferences
ActiveControl is a SIP-only feature that has been supported
for a while for video systems in Cisco TelePresence Server
hosted conferences.
From CE8.3 ActiveControl is also supported in CMS 2.1
hosted conferences. It is enabled by default on the video
system, and can be used as long as it is supported by the
infrastructure as well (auto-negotiation).
New ActiveControl functionality:
• When the video system is muted from the server side, the
mute indicator is shown on screen and the microphone's
mute LED is lit.
• Best effort encryption is used by default.
• An automatic layout is introduced as default. Who is
shown in the automatic layout is based on recent active
speakers.
• Recording status indicator shown on screen.
• ActiveControl functionality available from the Call Control
page on the web interface, for example participant list,
participant mute indicator, and drop participant button.
Media channel details available in the xAPI
Media channels contains information about audio, video and
data for ongoing calls. You can monitor the channel rate,
packet loss, jitter, video frame rate, and more from the xAPI.
Sign in to the xAPI as an admin user and run
to see the media channel details. You can
MediaChannels
also check the media channel status on the Status page in
the web interface.
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