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Administrator’s Guide for Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration Release 5.3
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Chapter 4 Configuring and Managing Cisco MeetingPlace Video Integration
About Managing Video-Conferencing Resources
Configuring the Required Minimum Number of Video Floater Ports
Each video conference requires one dedicated video port to link the audio stream of the video conference
to the Cisco MeetingPlace audio conference, and this port may be taken from the pool of video floater
ports. Therefore, the number of floater ports you allocate cannot be zero. The minimum number of
floater ports you allocate depends on the number of video conferences and ports available on your
system.
If your system has fewer video conferences than ports, the required minimum number of floater ports is
the lesser of the following values:
•
The total number of video ports on your system, divided by 3, rounded up to the next whole number,
or
•
The maximum number of video conferences available on the Cisco IPVC MCU.
For example, if your Cisco IPVC MCU provides 24 ports and 10 simultaneous conferences, then the
required minimum number of floater ports is 24/3, which totals 8, which is smaller than the maximum
number of video conferences, which is 10. Therefore, the required minimum number of ports is 8.
This calculation maximizes system flexibility while minimizing the chance that video conferencing will
be unavailable in a particular meeting.
The floater ports resulting from this calculation are not available to video-conference participants; for
standard floater-port functionality, add additional floater ports.
Step 1
Use the information in this section to calculate the required minimum number of video floater ports.
Step 2
Continue with the steps in the following section,
Adding Optional Video Floater Ports
.
Adding Optional Video Floater Ports
In addition to the required minimum number of video floater ports, you can include floater ports that are
available on a first-come, first-served basis to participants in conferences that are in session. These video
floater ports are analogous to floater ports in audio conferencing.
Add the number of floater ports you need to the minimum required number of floater ports. The total
number of video floater ports cannot be more than the total number of video ports available.
Step 1
Use the information in this section to calculate the total number of video floater ports.
Step 2
Enter the number of video floater ports in the
Video floater ports
field in MeetingTime: Click the
Configure
tab, then click
Server Configuration
, then scroll down in the panel on the right to
Video
floater ports.
Step 3
Continue with the steps in the following section,
(Optional) Configuring the Number of Overbook Ports
.
(Optional) Configuring the Number of Overbook Ports
Overbook ports allow users to schedule more participants for a meeting than the number of ports that are
actually available. Overbook ports are useful because typically not all invitees attend meetings, and
reserved ports would otherwise go to waste. Video overbook ports are analogous to but separate from
audio overbook ports. Determining the optimal number of video overbook ports requires a different
calculation than determining the optimal number of audio ports.