Multipoint control unit
Cisco TelePresence MCU 4505.
A multipoint control unit (MCU) is a device commonly used to bridge videoconferencing connections. The multipoint control unit is an endpoint on the LAN that provides the capability for three or more terminals and gateways to participate in a multipoint conference. The MCU consists of a mandatory multipoint controller (MC) and optional multipoint processors (MPs).
Vendors
- Acano
- AVer
- Avistar
- BlueJeans
- ClearOne
- Cisco
- Compunetix
- Dialogic PowerMedia
- FaceMe
- Google Hangouts
- Headen Bridge
- iFreecomm
- LifeSize
- MCU1.com
- Microsoft
- Nefsis
- Pexip
- Polycom
- Radvision
- Sony
- TenHands
- TrueConf
- Vidtel
- Zoom
- Huawei Technologies
- ZTE
Opensource software MCU servers
Further reading
- Willebeek-Lemair, M.H.; Kandlur, D.D.; Shae, Z.-Y. (1994). "Proceedings of 19th Conference on Local Computer Networks". pp. 356–64. doi:10.1109/LCN.1994.386585. ISBN 0-8186-6680-3.
|chapter=ignored (help) - Civanlar, M; Ozkasap, O; Celebi, T (2005). "Peer-to-peer multipoint videoconferencing on the Internet". Signal Processing: Image Communication 20 (8): 743–54. doi:10.1016/j.image.2005.05.003.
- Thom, G.A. (1996). "H.323: The multimedia communications standard for local area networks". IEEE Communications Magazine 34 (12): 52–6. doi:10.1109/35.556487.
- Blignault, Ilse (2000). "Multipoint Videoconferencing in Health: A Review of Three Years' Experience in Queensland, Australia". Telemedicine Journal 6 (2): 269–74. doi:10.1089/107830200415216. PMID 10957740.
- Shaw-Min Lei; Ting-Chung Chen; Ming-Ting Sun (1994). "Video bridging based on H.261 standard". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 4 (4): 425–37. doi:10.1109/76.313137.
- Yangzhen Zou; Changjia Chen (1996). "Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Technology. ICCT '96". pp. 173–7. doi:10.1109/ICCT.1996.545155. ISBN 0-7803-2916-3.
|chapter=ignored (help) - Li, Junlin; He, Li-wei; Florencio, Dinei (2007). "Multimedia and Expo, 2007 IEEE International Conference on". pp. 84–7. doi:10.1109/ICME.2007.4284592. ISBN 1-4244-1016-9.
|chapter=ignored (help) - Willebeek-Lemair, M.H.; Shae, Z.-Y. (1995). "Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems". pp. 85–93. doi:10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524972. ISBN 0-8186-7125-4.
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