About the sma-1s configuration – Cisco Conference Phone User Manual

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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3

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Chapter 3 Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing for a Segmented Meeting Access

About Segmented Meeting Access

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing supports two SMA configurations, which you can
decide upon during the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing installation. For more
information, see

Chapter 2, “Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.”

About the SMA-1S Configuration

Note

For system requirements, see the “Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server Requirements” section of the

Release Notes

for your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing release. New installations of

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 require a Cisco MCS.

In a Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server (SMA-1S) configuration, a single web server is placed in a
network segment, such as a demilitarized zone (DMZ), and two websites provide access to Cisco
Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing. One of the sites is only accessible from behind the firewall.
The other is accessible from inside or outside the firewall.

While internal users have access to the full-access Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing user
interface, external users have limited access to an attend-only web page that only allows attendance to
external meetings.

The benefits of this configuration are cost effectiveness, since you only require one web server, and a
moderate level of security. However, this configuration is more complex to deploy than the Segmented
Meeting Access-2 Servers (SMA-2S) configuration and involves setting up virtual websites. It also
requires a segmented DNS for a single click-to-attend notification link. If you want to maintain a single
click-to-attend link, more DNS work is required.

Figure 3-1

Segmented Meeting Access - 1 Server Configuration

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