This document discusses multipoint video conferencing and its key features. Multipoint conferencing allows three or more locations to connect simultaneously, beyond traditional point-to-point calls. It is driven by business needs for global collaboration and an increasingly mobile workforce. Emerging options for endpoints now include smartphones, tablets, and web browsers. Multipoint control units (MCUs) act as the video bridge to connect multiple locations, and can be integrated into endpoints, standalone hardware, hybrid cloud/on-premise models, or cloud-based and on-demand. As more devices support video, the ability to connect across platforms (multiplatform) is becoming increasingly important.

1. Multipoint Video Conferencing
A Deeper Dive into VC’s Most Talked About Feature
Robb Woods
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2. A perspective from the past
LOCATION A LOCATION C
LOCATION B
Typical video conferencing within an enterprise
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3. Moving beyond the enterprise walls
LOCATION A LOCATION C
DESKTOP
VIDEO MOBILE
LOCATION B
Shift towards multipoint video conferencing
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4. Emerging endpoint options
Past Now
 Conference Room  Room-based video systems
 Room-based video  Smartphones
systems  Tablets
 IT involvement  Soft clients
 Video enabled IP Phones
 Web browser
 USB Smart Cameras (TelyHD)
 Self-service
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5. Business drivers for multipoint video conferencing
 Business is global
 Executives are on the move
 Teleworking is on the rise
 Video is proven to be more effective
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6. Trends driving multipoint conferencing
 241M wireless video-enabled devices expected
by 2015
 Desktop and Laptop capabilities
 Network speed & availability continues increase
 BYOD (Bring your own Device)
 BYOA (Bring your own Application)
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7. Key ingredient of multi-point video conferencing
MULTIPOINT
LOCATION A LOCATION C
MCU CONTROL UNIT
(VIDEO
BRIDGE)
LOCATION B
Multipoint video conferencing
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8. Where is the MCU?
MULTIPOINT
MCU CONTROL UNIT
(VIDEO
BRIDGE)
MCU
MCU in an endpoint MCU as a standalone network element
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9. Today’s MCU options
MCU
Part of an Standalone Hybrid Cloud-based
endpoint hardware Combination On-demand
(Limited capacity) (Finite of on-premise scale,
capacity) + cloud or Flexibility
multi-tenancy
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10. “Multipoint” or “Multiplatform” or “Both”
MULTIPOINT
MCU CONTROL UNIT
(VIDEO
BRIDGE)
Enterprise multipoint setup from a single Other vendor
vendor platforms
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11. Multipoint MCUs & Interoperability
VENDOR C
VENDOR A VENDOR A VENDOR A PLATFORM
MCU MCU
VENDOR B
VENDOR A VENDOR A PLATFORM VENDOR A
MCU as a video bridge Extending MCU to take over
“interoperability” as a key feature
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12. “Multiplatform” = “Multipoint”?
 Not the same
 Multiplatform speaks to the
different types of video
enabled devices that are
supported in a multipoint
call.
 Becoming more important
as more video enabled
devices are introduced.
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13. Network and Infrastructure
ENTERPRISE
PRIVATE NETWORK
REMOTE/MOBILE INTERNET
WORKFORCE
All endpoints within the Multipoint is driving the requirement for
enterprise network seamless connectivity between “private” and
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14. Today’s MCU options – Standalone hardware
 More capacity/compute power – software license to
open up additional capacity
 Limited by finite capacity upgrades
 Demands dedicated resources for management
 CAPEX intensive
 Limited update cycles
 More options being added around:
 Interoperability support
 Firewall traversal/Border gateway
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15. Today’s MCU options – Hybrid
 Multi-tenant architecture and/or on-premises + cloud
hybrid model
 Less CAPEX compared to standalone hardware option
 Limits additional CAPEX with growth
 Somewhat easier to use when used as a service
 Dependencies
 Capacity, performance and resiliency capped by the
underlying hardware
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16. Today’s MCU options – Cloud
 New technology - apprehension for some
 SaaS - Software as a Service
MCU
 Limited OPEX and almost no CAPEX
 Scale as you grow
 Wider interoperability options through software
 Globally accessible – being in the cloud
 High availability – easy to build redundancy and failover
 Faster update cycles – more agile
 Self Service or IT Control options
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17. Summary
 Why multipoint?
 Why consider multiplatform?
 MCU options
 What is right for you?
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18. Questions?
Robb Woods
robb@bluejeans.com
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19. Next videocast will be
Check back on March 19:
BlueJeans.com for The Core of
the recorded Multipoint VC,
videocast the MCU
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