About Cisco Ipvc 3500 Series Gateway Applications And Topologies; About Multimedia Conferencing - Cisco 3521 Administrator's Manual

About Cisco IPVC 3500 Series Gateway Applications and Topologies

About Cisco IPVC 3500 Series Gateway Applications and
Topologies
The Cisco IPVC 3500 Series Gateway supports multimedia conferencing by translating between H.323
and H.320 protocols. Examples of network applications that use the gateway include:
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About Multimedia Conferencing

The Cisco IPVC 3500 Series Gateway enables H.323 endpoints on the IP network to communicate with
an H.320 terminal, an ISDN phone, or a regular phone on a circuit-switched public network without
having to connect directly to these networks. The gateway allows all IP network terminals to support
video conferences without connecting every desktop computer to an ISDN line (see
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Typical multimedia conferencing applications include:
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