Simplify session management and control of telepresence conferences. The Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) provides flexible and extensible video conferencing applications. Organizations benefit from increased employee productivity and enhanced communication with partners and customers.
Product Overview
VCS comprises Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Control (VCS Control) and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway (VCS Expressway) to enable smooth video communications easily and securely inside and outside the enterprise.
VCS Control provides video call and session control, registrations, and enhanced security for Cisco TelePresence conferences. It enables definition of aspects such as routing, dial plans, and bandwidth usage, while allowing organizations to customize video call-management applications to their requirements.
For organizations that need video collaboration beyond the enterprise, VCS Expressway is required alongside VCS Control. VCS Expressway allows video traffic to traverse the firewall securely, enabling rich video communications with partners, customers, suppliers, mobile workers, and teleworkers.
Important use cases for Cisco VCS include:
● Business-to-business video: Using Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) dialing, you can collaborate with customers, partners, and suppliers as easily and securely as you do using email messages. No prearrangements are needed. And if your partners, suppliers, or customers have a third-party standards-based Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or H.323, system, you can collaborate with them too, as easily as you do with the people in your own office.
● Mobile video experiences using Cisco Jabber clients: Providing secure mobile access based on Transport Layer Security (TLS), Cisco Jabber mobile lets you make and receive video calls without requiring the extra step of a VPN.
● Teleworkers: Teleworkers can use their personal Cisco TelePresence endpoints for video interactions with colleagues, customers, partners, and suppliers from their home office.
● Investment protection: The solution offers video interoperability with your current standards-based SIP or H.323 systems and devices.
When VCS is deployed with Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Business Edition 9.1.2 or later, the following are also possible when remote and mobile access to Cisco Unified Communications Manager is enabled:
● Mobile experiences using any Cisco Jabber® client with access to all collaboration workloads (video, voice, content, instant messaging, and presence) without requiring the extra step of a VPN.
● VPN-less teleworker support for Cisco endpoints (Cisco TelePresence EX Series, MX Series, and SX Series; Cisco TelePresence Integrator C Series; Cisco DX Series; as well as Cisco Jabber).
● Mobile and browser-based collaboration with Cisco Jabber Guest: Realize the benefits of new ways of securely and easily interacting with “guests,” whether they are consumers, other businesses, or even temporary employees.
The Cisco TelePresence VCS extends face-to-face video collaboration across organizations, and to remote workers and mobile users, by supporting any-to-any video and telepresence communications. This simple and scalable solution works with unified communications and voice-over-IP solutions to provide an optimal user experience, regardless of location or device.
Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway facilitates secure business-to-business telepresence and video communications. It transparently connects businesses, organizations, and remote or mobile users reliably and more securely.
In conjunction with Cisco TelePresence Management Suite, VCS helps to enable large-scale video deployments quickly and easily across the organization in a cost-efficient manner to bring high-quality telepresence services to a mass audience.
Cisco TelePresence VCS supports on-premise and cloud applications. It is available as a standalone appliance or as an application for virtualized environments.
Cisco TelePresence VCS offers: