D 13373.08
NOVEMBER 2007
MPS
TANDBERG
MPS
ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Technical Specifications
TANDBERG MPS 800 (1:2)
MAXIMUM SYSTEM CAPACITY
MCU video ports: up to 160
MCU audio ports: up to 48
Gateway sessions: up to 80
Serial Interface ports: up to 128
ISDN-PRI ports: up to 32
MCU CONFERENCE SCHEDULING
Advanced scheduling (Multiple MCUs) with TMS
Scheduling using the TANDBERG Scheduler, Microsoft
Outlook® or IBM Lotus Notes®
On-demand conferencing (true Ad Hoc)
Personal conferencing
Conference initiation using Microsoft Office
Communicator (SIP-CX)
MCU CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
Advanced conference monitoring with TMS Confer-
ence Control Center
Centralized management and control via embedded
web server
3rd Party API for external control (XML on HTTPS)
Live audio and video monitoring & diagnostics
Dual Snapshot of ongoing conference (JPEG)
Move participants between conferences
Auto dial out on personal conferences
Waiting room provided to attendees prior to confer-
ence start
Conference bandwidth threshold
Single or Multiple Dial In numbers per conference
10 Prefixes for Ad Hoc Conferencing
Caller ID conference routing
Mute audio and video to/from endpoints
Custom “Welcome” pages (JPEG)
Customizable conference messages
Lock participant layouts
Edit conference display text
Access to all conferences through Single Number Dial
In Interface (SNDI)
MCU VIDEO FEATURES
Up to 30 fps in Continuous Presence, Voice Switched
and presentation mode
Best Impression — Automatic change of video image
layout and resolution
Send/recieve wide format
Automatic Continuous Presence switching
Common Layouts for 16:9 and 4:3 Formats
Standard CP (CP2, CP3, CP4, CP5+1, CP4+3, CP7+1,
CP9, CP8+2, CP12+1, CP12+2, CP16/auto)
Wide Screen CP (wCP2+1,wCP3, wCP3+1, wCP4,
wCP4+1, wCP6, wCP8+1, wCP12, CP32)
Voice Switched
Self-view optional
Lecture mode
Embedded site naming with Unicode support
Active speaker indication in CP mode
Active speaker indication for telephones
MCU CHAIR CONTROL
Embedded control from TMS Conference Control
Center and embedded web server
Endpoint control using H.243 Chair Control on H.320
and H.323
Endpoint control using BFCP Chair Control on SIP
Multi-language H.243 Terminal Names
MCU AUDIO FEATURES
Mute audio to/from endpoints
Automatic gain control
Audio input level indications
Custom “welcome” sound (WAV)
Customizable conference messages (WAV)
Entry/Exit tones
Mobile telephone noise suppression
CD-quality audio using MPEG 4 AAC-LD
Telephone echo suppression
GATEWAY FEATURES (OPTION)
H.323 to/from H.320 (IP to ISDN)
H.323 to/from H.320 (IP to V.35)
GATEWAY ISDN CALL ROUTING
Direct Inward Dialling (DID)
Interactive Voice and Video Response (IV2R)
Automatic TCS-4 response on ISDN for automated
bridging of IP islands
Any combination of DID, IV2R and TCS-4
Automatic downspeeding to available ISDN or IP rate
Telephone Dial In can be disabled
GATEWAY H.323 CALL ROUTING TO ISDN
Single prefix dialling
Selectable 2x64k (H.221) dial-out
Automatic ISDN restrict and prefixes
Automatic downspeed to available ISDN or IP rate
Load balance control
Call transfer of the IP side
ENDPOINTS SUPPORTED
ISDN (H.320) video endpoints up to 2 Mbps
V.35 (H.320) video endpoints up to 2 Mbps
IP (H.323) video endpoints up to 2 Mbps
IP (SIP) video endpoints up to 2 Mbps
IP (3G) video phone up to 64 kbps
Microsoft Office Communicator (SIP-CX)*
Analog/IP telephony
EMBEDDED ENCRYPTION
Standards based on ISDN, IP and mixed
ISDN/IP: H.233, H.234, H.235 v2&v3, DES 56 bit
key, AES 128 bit key
NIST-validated AES and DES
Automatic key generation and exchange
Mix of DES/AES possible in the same conference
LIVE VIDEO RESOLUTIONS
NATIVE PAL:
QCIF (176 x 144 pixels)
CIF (352 x 288 pixels)
448p (576 x 448 pixels)*
4CIF (704 x 576 pixels)
NATIVE NTSC:
SIF (352 x 240 pixels)
400p (528 x 400 pixels)*
4SIF (704 x 480 pixels)
NATIVE PC RESOLUTIONS:
VGA (640 x 480 pixels)
SVGA (800 x 600 pixels)
XGA (1024 x 768 pixels)
NATIVE WIDESCREEN RESOLUTIONS:
w288p (512 x 288 pixels)
w448p (768 x 448 pixels)
w576p (1023 x 576 pixels)
w720p (1280 x 720p)
TRANSCODING
Optimal Voice-Switched (oVS) Video: Intelligent On-
Demand Transcoding
Network transcoding (IP, ISDN-PRI and V.35)
Audio, video and protocol transcoding
Optimized picture layout for 3G phones
Bandwidths from 56 kbps–2 Mbps in the same
conference
SECURITY FEATURES
Network authentication (H.235)
Embedded audio/video encryption (H.235)
Secure management & control (HTTPS, SSH)
Participant authentication (password, Dial In number
and caller ID)
IP administration passwords
Services may be disabled: Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS,
SNMP, SSH
LIVE PRESENTATIONS
Broadcast of presentations (DuoVideo
TF
, H.239 and
BFCP**)
IP NETWORK FEATURES
Expressway NAT and firewall traversal
Intelligent Packet Loss Recovery (IPLR)
Automatic call rate adjustments
URI dialling
QoS (DiffServ, IP Precedence and TOS)
H.245 DTMF tones in H.323
Centralized management via embedded Web server
using HTTPS, XML, SOAP, SSH and Telnet
1 x RS-232 for local control and diagnostics
Endpoints on two different IP networks in the same
conference
Automatic/manual error control
IPv6 Enabled - IPv4-IPv6 Dual Stack
ISDN NETWORK FEATURES
ISDN-PRI E1/T1
ISDN PRI G.703 and E1/T1, Leased Line
Non-Facilities Associated Signalling (NFAS)
Automatic downspeeding
Automatic call rate adjustments
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