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Description:

Features and Benefits:

• Greater reach: Any-to-any interoperability facilitates smooth video communications between standards-based and third-party client users.

• 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.

• Extended telepresence capability: Integration with Cisco Unified CM helps reduce complexity for users and facilitates interworking between SIP- and H.323-compliant endpoints within an enterprise, regardless of individual endpoint capabilities.

• Secure: The industrially recognized secure performance of Cisco VCS provides administrators with complete confidence in their network security.

• Extensible: Part of a firewall traversal solution with Cisco VCS Expressway, Cisco VCS Control provides rich, video-enabled collaboration for remote workers and for business-to-business applications.

• Flexibility: Administrators can implement the Cisco VCS as either an appliance or a virtualized application to meet the needs of their organizations.

• 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.

• 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.