Aurus U-Meet

2015: U-Meet is schedule system of VIDEOCONFERENCING meetings and management of them

On July 1, 2015 the Aurus company submitted the first version of the U-Meet software product.

Using U-Meet the user will independently plan video conference, will select participants from the address directory and will check resource availability of the VIDEOCONFERENCING server. All is available from the personal web calendar or MS Outlook.

Screenshot of application window 2015

A system provides for the choice of participants of the meeting the address directory in which:

• employees with their personal video terminals and Cisco Jabber, stationary and mobile phones,
• the meeting rooms equipped with group VIDEOCONFERENCING terminals
• any external contacts for participation in video conferences.

All invited participants will receive the notification with the instruction for accession to video conference.

Depending on regulations, the planned VIDEOCONFERENCING meeting can require confirmation of the administrator, otherwise it will not take place.

The planned meeting automatically is created on the Cisco MCU VIDEOCONFERENCING server, and in due time a system automatically connects personal and group video terminals to a conference.

Management of video conference The organizer of a meeting receives by email the link to a control interface of a conference. Only one cliques – and without any authorization on its tablet or the PC the control interface of a meeting is available.

Screenshot of an application window of management, 2015

Abilities to manage VIDEOCONFERENCING meeting:

• access isolation - the user can manage only "the" video conference,
• connection and shutdown of participants,
• control of microphones and video cameras of terminals,
• management of the layout of video conference,
• delegation of management of a conference to other participant.

Requirements to the server

• minimum hardware requirements: CPU of Core2Duo 2 GHz, RAM 2048 MB
• virtual environment is supported

Jobs

• web browser
• optionally - Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013

Cisco MCU

(the version of MCU API - 2.9 and is required above)

• Cisco TelePresence MCU 4200 Series
• Cisco TelePresence MCU 4500 Series
• Cisco TelePresence MCU 5300 Series
• Cisco TelePresence MCU MSE 8420
• Cisco TelePresence MCU MSE 8510.

2016: U-Meet 3.1

In April, 2016 the Aurus company provided the updated planning tool and managements of U-Meet VIDEOCONFERENCING meetings. The basic purpose of this software product remained the same – delegation to non-management employees of planning processes of VIDEOCONFERENCING meetings in the environment of Cisco Telepresence and management of them.

The main changes which entered the version of U-Meet 3.1 are made at requests of the clients who are already using a product. The functionality of selection of time of a meeting and meeting rooms taking into account employee occupation, rooms and VIDEOCONFERENCING resources is added to the interface of planning. Function of document flow for confirmation of the VIDEOCONFERENCING meetings created by users was added to a product. Besides, there were abilities to manage availability of VIDEOCONFERENCING resources to different user groups and the reports generation module about the carried-out video conferences.

The next major version of a product will maintain new architecture of VKS of Cisco (Conductor + by Telepresence Server).