Features at a glance – TANDBERG 1D13898.07 User Manual

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D13898.07
NOVEMBER 2008

TANDBERG

CONTENT SERVER

ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

Table of

Contents

Introduction

Installation

Quick Setup

TCS

Administration

Backing up and

Restoring

Administrator

Settings

Conference

Setup

View

Conferences

Appendices

Features at a Glance

Flexible Content Creation

Customizable Personal and System

Recording Aliases automatically apply
recording and streaming settings,
conference permissions and metadata.
Support for dialing in and dialing out from

the Content Server.
TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS)

integration:

Support for Personal and System

Recording Aliases through integration
with TMS 11.8 and above..
Backwards compatibility with TMS 11.7.

Recording

Large scale content creation from up to five

concurrent video conferences (if registered
to a gatekeeper).

New in Version 3.2

Support for RSS feeds.

See

RSS feeds

section for more information.

Support for automated media flow to

Podcast Producer or iTunes U.
See

The Distribution section - Podcast

Producer and iTunes U

for more information.

Support for selecting a conference recording

by its streaming bandwidth from all available
recordings.
Support for easily sharing a link to a

conference.
Added the Server Overview page for current

usage and system health information.
Added an overview of the client environment

check in user Preferences.

Powerful predefined system templates (see

Recording Templates at a Glance

for a full

list of system templates and their recording
and streaming outputs).
Dual Stream support for all calls.

Streaming

Live streaming of video meetings in multiple

formats and data rates.
Multicast and unicast streaming.

In-built Windows Media™ streaming server.

Integration with external streaming servers for

publishing Windows Media™, RealNetworks®
Real Media (RealAudio® and RealVideo®) and
QuickTime® compatible MPEG4 content.

Authentication

Support for local, LDAP and domain

authentication.
Support for guest (unauthenticated access)

with PIN-protection for conferences.

Permissions

Access-list based model for viewing live and

recorded conferences and editing recorded
content.

Content Library

Searchable content library for viewing live

and recorded content.
Ability to assign customized Categories

to conferences and sort conferences by
Category.

Content Viewing Experience

Indexing content for quick retrieval by using

the Index.

Picture in Picture, Two Videos, Joined, and

Switching layouts available.
Ability to switch between different views

of the video streams and the index (if
available).

Content Editing

Ability to add and manage index points in

the Content Editor.
Ability to set the start and end points for

conference playback and create a playlist for
playback of up to two conferences.

Administration

User-friendly web-based interface for

administrative system configuration.
Access to administrative logs and Windows

Server from the Content Server web
interface.

Gatekeeper Settings

Ability to register the Content Server with

the gatekeeper as a Terminal or a Gateway.
Native support for TANDBERG Expressway.

Scalability

Support for media storage in an external

storage location, such as Network Attached
Storage.

New in Version 3.0

Support for H.264.

Support for encrypted H.323 calls.

Support for SIP.

Wide formats:

H263:

w228p, w448p, w576p

H.264:

w228p, w448p, w576p, w720p

New call model with five concurrent calls

transcoded to the same formats.
Ability to add outputs to recorded

conferences for on-demand viewing with the
Offline Transcoder.
An easy-to–use, graphical Template Editor,

with a wide selection of layouts and
resolutions.
Added MPEG4 format for viewing and

downloads.
Optimized downloadable media for portable

devices—iPod and Zune.
Updated Content Library interface, with

thumbnails and automatic bandwidth
detection.
Context-sensitive online help.

New in Version 3.1

Updated Windows Media multicast support

to allow streaming on a fixed port.
Added support for multicast streaming of

MPEG4 video directly off the Content Server.

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