Cisco Tip Support; Lync 2013 Participant Monitoring - Polycom RealPresence 1500 Administrator's Manual

Cisco TIP Support

Polycom's solution that allows the Collaboration Server to natively inter-operate with Cisco TelePresence
Systems using Cisco TIP protocol is supported.
MLA (Multipoint Layout Application) is required for managing Cisco TelePresence layouts (whether Polycom
ITP Systems are deployed or not. MLA is a Windows® application that allows conference administrators to
configure and control video layouts for multipoint calls involving Polycom Immersive Telepresence (ITP)
systems. For more information see the Polycom® Multipoint Layout Application (MLA) User's Guide for Use
with Polycom Telepresence Solutions.
System behavior can be controlled by adding the MS_AV_MCU_ MONITORING System Flag and setting
its value accordingly as summarized in the following table.
System Behavior by MS_AV_MCU_MONITORING System Flag Value and MLA Mode
MS_AV_MCU_MONITORING=
MAIN_AND_IN_SLAVE
(Default)
NO
(Not recommended)
YES
For more information see
Collaboration with Microsoft and Cisco
Guide.

Lync 2013 Participant Monitoring

Lync Clients connected to a conference using the Collaboration Server Hosted architecture will experience
normal monitoring, with the addition of the MS SVC codec.
Lync Clients connected to a conference using a Lync 2013 AVMCU Cascade link will be monitored as a
single participant. In the Conference list the Lync 2013 AVMCU is listed as Lync AVMCU_x, where x is an
incrementing number, should multiple conferences be connected using Lync 2013 AVMCU Cascade links.
Polycom®, Inc.
MLA Mode
Room Switch
CP Layout
Room Switch
CP Layout
Room Switch
CP Layout
(Not
recommended)
Collaboration With Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP)
in the RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) Administrator's
Appendix H - Deployment Into Microsoft Environments
Collaboration Server Side
Sees the AVMCU current speaker.
Sees all connected Lync Clients in
the layout.
Sees a Lync Client which may or
may not be the current speaker.
Sees the Lync 2013 AVMCU
current speaker.
Sees cascaded slave Lync 2013
AVMCU s as empty cells in the
layout.
Lync 2013 AVMCU Side
Sees the Collaboration
Server hosted current
speaker in a 1x1 layout.
and
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