About The Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server (Vcs) - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Introduction
About the Cisco TelePresence Video
Communication Server (VCS)
The Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (Cisco VCS) provides flexible and extensible media
and session management capabilities, enabling organizations to benefit from increased employee
productivity and enhanced communication with partners and customers.
The VCS delivers exceptional scalability and resiliency, secure communications, and simplified large-scale
provisioning and network administration by taking advantage of TelePresence Provisioning 2.0 capabilities.
This helps enable large-scale deployments quickly and easily across the organization in a cost-efficient
manner to bring high-quality telepresence services to the masses.
The VCS interworks seamlessly with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM), bringing
rich telepresence services to organizations with Cisco UCM. It also offers interoperability with third-party
unified communications, IP telephony networks, and voice over IP (VoIP) systems.
The VCS is available as an appliance or as a virtualized application on VMware or similar virtual
environments, with additional support for Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platforms.
You can deploy the VCS as the VCS Control for use within an enterprise and as the VCS Expressway for
external communication. The VCS Expressway includes the features of the VCS Control, augmented with
highly secure firewall-traversal capability. An alternative solution, suited to small to medium-sized
businesses (SMBs), is the VCS Starter Pack Express. Optional packages that you can deploy include Cisco
TelePresence FindMe (FindMe), Device Provisioning, and Dual Network Interfaces (VCS Expressway only).
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