Cisco CMS (Cisco Meeting Sever)

Cisco Collaboration License

The Cisco CMS (Meeting Server) delivers a great and consistent experience regardless of how users join, mobile devices, tablets. Anyone can participate any audio and video endpoint. The CMS, running on standard hardware makes meetings simple. It provides the tools to meet flexibly and easily personal, spontaneous and scheduled meeting rooms. By featuring custom layouts enables the ability to meeting records and playback later all with easy licensing.

The CMS provides a single platform for audio, video and web meeting which eventually can be manager using Cisco Call Manager. The cisco meeting server easily scale meetings to include everyone as meeting are increasingly distributed data centers and more locations. This device maintains a great experience by reducing bandwidth costs and it can build on the existing IT environments.

CMS Features: Cisco CMS License

secure video meetings (PIN protection, encryption).

– Integration with CCM for adhoc video meetings.

– Scheduled meetings for ease of use and save time from admins.

– Supports S4B/Lync unique video interop

– Supports WebRTC technology to meet in a secure and simple way with customers/partners

– small HW footprint to start (just 4vCPUs)

– rich options for meeting controls and layouts

CMS Models

Designed in following models:

• The Cisco Meeting Server Acano X-series
• The Cisco Meeting Server 1000 (CMS 1000): A UCS 5108 chassis with 8 B200 blades and the Meeting Server software pre-installed as the sole application.
• The Cisco Meeting Server 2000 (CMS 2000): A Cisco UCS server preconfigured with VMware and the Cisco Meeting Server installed as a VM deployment.

Note: From CMS version 3.0 and later, the Acano X-Series servers is not supported. It’s also not supported for older versions of Call Bridge to connect to the latest Meeting Server services such as Web Bridge 3, recorder, streamer available in Meeting Server 3.0.

Cisco CMS License 

Cisco Meeting Server Licenses are available in various types and models, such as: Multiparty licenses that can be installed per user (PMP+ license), or shared (SMP+ license), On-Prem Shared Meeting License and etc. These licenses enable different features on your Cisco CMS server providing scalability and availability to your collaboration network in most cost-effective solution.

CMS Version 3.0 introduces support for Smart Licensing on Cisco Meeting Server using Cisco
Meeting Management (CMM) version 3.0 (or later). For larger deployments, CMM can be deployed in new licensing-only mode without active meeting management.

CMS Licensing Changes

First of all, Cisco Meeting Management version 3.0 (or later) is mandatory in version 3.0 and SMP and PMP license usage is combined to decide if a day is counted as overage. other
feature licenses are assessed separately  and enabled with entitlement via Meeting Management.

You can find the smart licensing enforcement flow, in the following figure:

Customers can follow these steps to fully enforce their licenses and benefit from all CMS capabilities.

Cisco CMS License Order and Pricing

Here in Cisco License we are intending to help you to choose the most adaptative license for your network considering your needs while offering the best options for your network based on the size and scale in a cost saving way. 

Using this license, allows you to arrange meetings without any problems from any place and device. If you need this license you can get support from our team on price and order. Be sure that the best price will be presented to you.

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