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Evaluation of the Emblaze-VCON VCBPro Video Bridge

Call Creation & Launch

The VCBPro supports ad-hoc conferences created on-the-fly by system administrators, scheduled

conferences created using Conference Moderator, and a somewhat unique form of ad-hoc conferencing in

which a point-to-point call is expanded into a multi-point conference by having one of the participating

users invite one or more additional participants. As of this writing, the VCBPro does not include a lobby

function, standing meeting rooms, or support for endpoint activated blast dial.

Administrators can create conferences from either Conference Moderator or MXM. Using Conference

Moderator, call creation involves the following steps:

1) Clicking the New Conference button

2) Selecting the endpoints to include in the session a) from the list of systems currently registered

(or previously registered) with MXM, b) using an external data source like Active Directory, or

c) by entering in the IP / E.164 address of an external endpoint

3) Selecting the start date and time (with an option to start now or schedule a recurring session)

4) Selecting a pre-defined conference service (which defines the overall call settings for the

conference)

5) Defining encryption settings

6) Selecting “Finish” from the Confirm screen

Initially we were planning to use Conference Moderator to create all of our test calls. However, in

Conference Moderator, call settings (call speeds, encryption settings, etc.) across all participating

endpoints are defined using one of the pre-defined conference services; a method which greatly simplifies

call creation. For this reason, when creating conferences using Conference Moderator, we were unable to

define connection speeds on a per-endpoint basis. Hence, when our test calls required the connection of

endpoints at specific (different) speeds, we had no option but to launch those test calls using the MXM

interface. Nevertheless, readers should note that Conference Moderator should be more than adequate to

schedule and manage conferences in the typical enterprise environment.

Although powerful, the MXM administrator interface makes call creation very inconvenient

. To create a

call, administrators must right click on the service definition required and direct it launch a point-to-point

call between the MCU and each participating endpoint. There is no “quick meeting creation” option or

multipoint session creation wizard, so creating the multi-speed test calls (which had to be launched via

MXM) involved dozens of mouse clicks per call.

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