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Feature Benefit
Performance features of Cisco VCS
Expressway
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Supports up to 2500 registered devices and 100 concurrent traversal calls
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Enables URI dialing for massive scalability
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Supports HTTPS, SSH, and SCP for secure management
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Uses Solid State Flash for critical storage and a hard drive for other functions
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Supports clustering of up to six Cisco VCSs, increasing capacity and redundancy
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Supports standards-based traversal using Relay NAT (TURN) server; support providing Interactive
Connectivity Establishment (ICE)-enabled devices with firewall and NAT traversal
Performance features of Cisco VCS
Starter Pack Express
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Supports up to 50 registered devices and 25 concurrent traversal calls
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Offers basic provisioning and management capabilities for Cisco TelePresence Movi, Cisco
TelePresence System EX Series, and Cisco IP Video Phone E20
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Enables URI dialing
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Supports HTTPS, SSH, and SCP for secure management
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Uses Solid State Flash for critical storage and hard drive for other functions
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Supports standards-based TURN server, supporting ICE-enabled devices with firewall and NAT
traversal
Product Specifications
Table 2 lists the physical specifications and Table 3 gives network, security, and management specifications for
the Cisco VCS Control and Cisco VCS Expressway.
Table 2. Product Specifications
Feature Specification
Product compatibility
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Compatible with any standards-compliant H.323 or SIP video conferencing or telepresence device
Capacity Cisco VCS Control and Cisco VCS
Expressway
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Up to 2500 registrations
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Up to 500 nontraversal calls
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Up to 100 traversal calls
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Up to 1000 sub-zones
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Up to 1000 neighbor zones
Cisco VCS Cluster of 6
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Up to 10,000 registrations
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Up to 2,000 nontraversal calls
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Up to 400 traversal calls
Cisco VCS Starter Pack Express
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Up to 50 registrations
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Up to 25 traversal calls
Cisco VCS main
features (Control and
Expressway)
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SIP and H.323 support, including SIP/H.323 gateway for locally registered endpoints
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IPv4 and IPv6 support, including IPv4 and IPv6 Interworking
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SIP and H.323 interworking for nonregistered endpoints
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Bandwidth management on both a per-call and a total-usage basis, configurable separately for calls within the local
subzones and to neighboring systems and zones
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URI and ENUM dialing through Domain Name System (DNS), enabling global connectivity
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Automatic down-speeding option for calls that exceed the available bandwidth
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Flexible zone configuration with prefix, suffix, and regular expression support
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Ability to function as a standalone Cisco VCS or be neighbored with other systems such as Cisco VCSs, border
controllers, gatekeepers, and SIP proxies
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Ability to be clustered with up to five other Cisco VCS peers for capacity and redundancy purposes
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Name clusters for ease of management and deployment
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Optional endpoint authentication
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Control over which endpoints are allowed to register
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Administrator policy including support for Call Processing Language (CPL)
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Embedded setup wizard through a serial port for initial configuration
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System administration through a web interface or RS-232, Telnet, SSH, and HTTPS
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Static NAT support (requires dual network interface option)
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