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Cisco Unified Video Advantage 2.1

Cisco® Unified Video Advantage lets Cisco Unified IP phone users add video to their communications experience. With Cisco Unified Video Advantage, video telephony is as easy as a phone call.

Cisco Unified Communications Solutions unify voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks, delivering a media-rich collaboration experience across business, government agency, and institutional workspaces. These applications use the network as the platform to enhance comparative advantage by accelerating decision time and reducing transaction time. The security, resilience, and scalability of the network help users in any workspace to easily connect every time, everywhere, using any media, device, or operating system. Cisco Unified Communications is part of a comprehensive solution that includes network infrastructure, security, wireless, management applications, lifecycle services, flexible deployment and outsourced management options, and third-party applications.

Interactive Face-to-Face Communications

Cisco Unified Video Advantage brings video telephony functions to Cisco Unified IP phones (Cisco Unified IP Phones 7900 Series and Cisco IP Communicator softphone application).

Figure 1. Cisco Unified Video Advantage

This video telephony solution consists of Cisco Unified Video Advantage software and Cisco VT Camera II, a video telephony universal-serial-bus (USB) camera. You can make calls from your Cisco Unified IP phone using the familiar phone interface, and calls are displayed with video on your PC without pushing any button or clicking your mouse.

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When registered to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, the Cisco Unified Video Advantageenabled phone has the features and functions of a full-featured IP videophone. It supports conversations on any video endpoint supported by Cisco Unified Communications Manager. System administrators can provision a Cisco Unified IP phone with Cisco Unified Video Advantage just as they would any other Cisco Unified IP phone, greatly simplifying deployment and management. Enterprise customers now have a cost-effective, scalable, and visually interactive IP communications solution.

Important Features and Benefits

Cisco Unified Video Advantage is innovative in that video telephone calls are just like regular phone calls. Features such as Call Forward, Transfer, Conference, and Hold are now available with video, and they are all initiated through the Cisco Unified IP phone. IP telephony and IP video telephony are delivered to every employee using a unified dial plan and a common directory over a single Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure.

The video codec and bandwidth selection in Cisco Unified Video Advantage is completely controlled by Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, so you need no special experience or knowledge about video capabilities or settings. You no longer need to predetermine if the other end of the call is a video endpoint or phone.

Enabling interactive face-to-face communications at the desktop enhances productivity and the quality of communications, streamlines business decision making, and improves teamwork. By reducing the need for in-person meetings, Cisco Unified Video Advantage can help your company save money on travel expenses, strengthen an existing telecommuting program, or reduce your organization’s carbon footprint in traveling to meetings (see figure 2). Cisco Unified Video Advantage is designed to deliver enhanced modes of communication while protecting existing unified communications investments.

Figure 2. Local and Remote Views

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Optimized Business Communications

Cisco Unified Video Advantage features the latest technology and advancements available with true IP communications today. You can now take full advantage of your IP network to extend enterprise-class voice and video to everyone in your organization. This dynamic solution is designed to grow with new system capabilities.

Cisco Unified Video Advantage Features

Cisco Unified Video Advantage is intuitively designed and easy to use, and it delivers convenient access to a host of features:

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Phone association choice: You can place Cisco Unified Video Advantage video calls with either a Cisco Unified IP phone or Cisco IP Communicator.

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Camera on and off: You can opt to "receive only" by disabling your camera.

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Video preview: You can check your video before placing or receiving calls.

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Video confirmation: You can optionally enable confirmation before sending a video.

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Mute video on audio mute option: When you mute the audio on the phone, video is automatically muted until you resume the audio.

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Easy access to video controls: Controls for showing the console, video window options, and video window position are conveniently available from the video windows.

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Video signal indicators: Quality of incoming and outgoing video signals is graphically displayed (see figure 1).

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Connectivity and status indicators: Graphics indicate the state and availability of the connections to the associated phone device and camera, including muted calls and “no available video.”

Figure 3. Cisco Unified Video Advantage Console

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