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Features and Benefits
Benefits of Cisco VCS follow:
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Greater reach: Any-to-any interoperability facilitates smooth video communications between standards-
based and third-party client users.
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Efficient conference management: Administrators can proactively monitor and configure conferences
through intuitive web user interfaces to optimize bandwidth usage in real time, helping to deliver a flawless
video experience.
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Highly scalable: With features such as clustering and policy services integration, the Cisco VCS is
architected to support enterprise growth, with smooth expansion as usage increases, protecting investment
in video infrastructure.
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Contact location: Use FindMe to ensure that people can always be contacted.
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Extended telepresence capability: Integration with Cisco UCM helps reduce complexity for users and
facilitates interworking between SIP- and H.323-compliant endpoints within an enterprise, regardless of
individual endpoint capabilities.
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Reduced footprint: This solution incorporates presence server, H.323 gatekeeper, SIP proxy, and SIP
registrar capabilities.
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Secure: The industrially recognized secure performance of Cisco VCS provides administrators with
complete confidence in their network security.
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Differentiation: Through policy services integration and dial plan configuration, you can create flexible
telepresence solutions that you can customize to deliver value and meet ever-increasing customer
requirements.
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Flexibility: Administrators can implement the Cisco VCS as either an appliance or a virtualized application
to meet the needs of their organizations.
Features of Cisco VCS follow:
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SIP registrar, SIP proxy server, presence server, and presence user agent: The Cisco VCS supports the
SIP protocol, acting as a SIP registrar, storing the Address of Record of registered endpoints, and
forwarding SIP requests as a SIP proxy server. The Cisco VCS supports the SIP for Instant Messaging and
Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) protocol, and can act as a presence server and presence user
agent.
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H.323 Gatekeeper: The Cisco VCS provides H.323 Gatekeeper functions. It accepts registrations from
H.323 endpoints and provides call-control functions such as address translation and admission control.
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Interoperability and Interworking: The Cisco VCS provides interoperability between SIP and H.323
standards-compliant endpoints, and also supports communication with IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft
Office Communicator Server (OCS) and Microsoft Lync endpoints.
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IPv4 and IPv6: The Cisco VCS supports IPv4 and IPv6, with IPv4 and IPv6 Interworking.
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Zone and bandwidth management: The Cisco VCS supports management of the allocation of bandwidth
between sites, endpoints, and groups of endpoints. You can specify the amount of bandwidth available for
intra- and inter- zone calls, allowing you to control the way in which bandwidth is used and calls are
prioritized. Features of the Cisco VCS bandwidth management capability include the following:
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lexible, customizable zone configuration with named zone and default zone
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