Deployment Architectures - Polycom RealPresence 4000 Administrator's Manual

RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) 1500/2000/4000 Administrator's Guide
Conferences hosted on the RMX can include a mix of existing end points (that do not
support TIP) and CTS endpoints.
TIP-enabled endpoints must support TIP Version 7 or higher. Calls from endpoints
supporting older versions of TIP will be rejected.

Deployment Architectures

The following multipoint topologies are given as examples. Actual deployments will
depend on user requirements and available infrastructure:
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Single Company Model - Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure
The deployment architecture in Figure I-1 shows a company that has a mixture of Polycom
and Cisco endpoints, room systems and telephony equipment that needs to enable
multipoint calls between all its video and audio endpoints using the RMX as the conference
bridge.
As show in
conferences using the TIP protocol, Polycom endpoints connected to the same conferences
using SIP protocol.
I-2
Single company with Polycom and Cisco Infrastructure
— CTS and Polycom Telepresence Rooms in a corporate environment.
Company to company via Service Provider
— Model 1: Mixed Polycom and Cisco infrastructure at one of the companies, Cisco
only infrastructure at the other.
— Model 2: Polycom only infrastructure at one of the companies, Cisco only
infrastructure at the other.
Figure I-1, prior to Version 8.1.1, Cisco Telepresence endpoints could connect to
Polycom, Inc.