Planning A Centralized Or Distributed Topology (Cascading) For Mcu - Avaya Scopia Elite 6000 Administrator's Manual

Planning a Centralized or Distributed Topology
(Cascading) for MCU
When your organization has more than one site, like a headquarters and several branches, the
Equinox Solution offers a unique method of cutting video bandwidth costs, known as cascaded
meetings.
A cascaded videoconference is a meeting distributed over more than one physical Scopia Elite
MCU and/or Equinox Media Server, where a master MCU/Media Server connects to one or more
slave MCUs/Media Servers to create a single videoconference. It increases the meeting capacity
by combining the resources of several MCUs/Media Servers. This can be especially useful for
distributed deployments across several locations, reducing bandwidth usage.
Without cascading, if you choose a centralized MCU deployment, frequent videoconferences
between branches can be expensive
use the HQ MCU
Figure 2: Centralized MCU deployment, where all branches use the HQ MCU
To reduce cross-site bandwidth costs, a distributed MCU deployment
deployment cascading meetings for reduced WAN bandwidth
conferences. Participants connect to their local MCU, and the conference is cascaded by
connecting between the MCUs using a fraction of the bandwidth compared to the centralized
deployment. The same principles apply to an MCU in the same location, thus increasing call
capacity by cascading conferences between them.
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Planning a Centralized or Distributed Topology (Cascading) for MCU

(Figure 2: Centralized MCU deployment, where all branches
on page 17).
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(Figure 3: Distributed MCU
on page 18) can perform cascaded
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