ViewPoint 8650C
User Guide
1 Overview
Issue 10 (2013-07-20)
Huawei Proprietary and Confidential
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1.4.3 Cascading Networking
Cascading means that a master MCU is appended with some slave MCUs.
cascading networking. By using the cascading technology, you can greatly expand the
capacity of the videoconferencing system.
Figure 1-10
Cascading networking
The master and slave MCUs are determined when you define a cascading site.
The master and the slave MCUs join in a conference on another MCU as a single site.
Each master MCU can be appended with multiple slave MCUs, while each slave MCU
can be appended to only one master MCU.
MCUs are cascaded through IP lines.
Multi-Channel Cascading
During a single-channel-cascaded conference where only one channel is used between
cascaded MCUs, the following aspects are restricted:
Only one site from a slave MCU can be added to continuous presence.
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