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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 3545 PRI Gateway and 3545 Serial Gateway Release 5.5
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Chapter 1 Functionality
About Gateway Features
lists features for specific Cisco gateways.
Encryption support
The gateway supports H.235-compliant AES 128 encryption for calls over 
IP networks, and H.233 and H.234-compliant AES 128 encryption for 
calls over ISDN networks.
H.243 Conference 
Control support
The gateway supports the H.243 protocol in ISDN-to-IP calls and in 
IP-to-ISDN calls. The gateway identifies the protocol version that an IP 
endpoint uses and sends H.239 capabilities only to those endpoints 
working with protocol version 4.0 or later.
Peer-to-peer 
connectivity
The gateway supports connectivity to the IP network through a gatekeeper, 
or directly to a peer device such as Cisco Unified Communications 
Manager.
IP network 
connections
The gateway has one 10/100Base-T Ethernet IP port (on the front panel) 
and connects to an IP segment through a direct connection to a network 
switch. 
Table 1-1
Gateway Feature Summary (continued)
Feature
Description
Table 1-2
Cisco Gateway Feature Specifics
Feature
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 
3545 PRI Gateway
Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 
3545 Serial Gateway
Supported ports
2 PRI ISDN ports
4 serial ports
Supported video 
conferencing protocols
H.320, H.323 (using Cisco Stack v4.0)
Supported audio codecs
The term audio transcoded video calls refers to the process whereby an 
audio stream in a multimedia call can be transcoded from one codec type to 
another.
Basic and advanced audio coding supported codecs: G.711, G.722, G.722.1, 
G.723.1, G.728
Audio Transcoding
G.711 (ISDN) < > G.723.1 (IP) for 
up to 60 voice channels.
Transcoding for the 4 supported 
multimedia calls.
G.711 (IP) < > G.728 (ISDN) for up 
to 20 audio transcoded video 
channels.
The gateway automatically performs 
A-Law G.711-to-µ-Law G.711 
translation between the IP and ISDN 
sides if needed. 
Note
When your Cisco unit 
includes both a gateway and 
a MCU, G.728 transcoding is 
supported on the MCU only.
Supported video 
protocols
H.261, H.263, H.263+ (Annexes F, J and N), H.263++ (Annex W), H.264