Because of this information
transfer, it??™s now possible for you to share audio and video with external users. As with the
A/V Conferencing Server, where the A/V Edge Server is located doesn??™t really matter. It can
be colocated with the Access Edge Server or it can be installed on a separate computer in
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the perimeter network. The MOC 2007 client supports peer-to-peer A/V communication
for users both inside and outside the organization??™s fi rewall.
The question arises as to when you might use A/V conferencing as opposed to Live
Meeting. Most IMs and the included A/V conferencing arise out of spur-of-the-moment
communications (at least for me they do). Generally, my group has used it for small, last-minute,
unplanned discussions, but I prefer using Live Meeting for meetings with planned agendas
and larger groups of participants. A/V conferencing is limited to 250 participants when
deployed on a single server. Also, if you are allowing external users access to the meeting and
you don??™t have an A/V Edge Server, you will need to go with Live Meeting.
Enterprise Voice
Another of these new features is provided through the MOC 2007 client. This new feature
is called Enterprise Voice, Microsoft??™s software-powered VoIP solution. MOC 2007 now
offers Enterprise Voice, the IP telephony component of Microsoft??™s Unifi ed Communications
solution. Enterprise Voice combines software and telephony to give you what Microsoft calls
a full-featured ???softphone.
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