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Appendix I
Polycom Open Collaboration Network
(POCN)
Collaboration With Cisco’s Telepresence Interoperability
Protocol (TIP)
TIP is a proprietary protocol created by Cisco for deployment in Cisco TelePresence systems
(CTS). Since TIP is not compatible with standard video communication systems,
interoperability between Cisco and other vendors’ telepresence systems was initially
impossible.
Gateways were developed to provide interoperability but were subject to the inherent
problems of additional latency (delay) in connections and low video quality resulting from
the reformatting of video and audio content.
Polycom’s solution is to allow the MCU to natively inter-operate with Cisco TelePresence
Systems, ensuring optimum quality multi-screen, multipoint calls between:
• Polycom Immersive Telepresence Systems (ITP) Version 3.0.3:
— RPX 200
— RPX 400
— OTX 300
— TPX HD 306
— ATX HD 300
• Polycom video conferencing endpoints Version 3.0.3
— 7000 HD Rev C
— 8000 HD Rev B
— 9006
— 4500
• Cisco TelePresence® System (CTS) Version 1.7
— CTS 1000
— CTS 3000
TIP is supported by RMX 1500/2000/4000 systems with MPMx cards.
Conferences hosted on the MCU can include a mix of existing end points (that do not
support TIP) and CTS endpoints.
Working in the Open Collaboration Server and TIP protocol are supported in AVC Conferencing
Mode only.
