This lab provides participants hands-on experience with design and implementation fundamentals of the Cisco Meeting Server (CMS), bringing premises-based multiparty conferencing of video, audio, and web collaboration together in one platform.

Students will learn to configure CMS and deploy a secure, scalable, and resilient collaboration solution following Cisco's Preferred Architecture including the ability to extend the platform beyond the corporate firewall and allow external Internet participants. The lab will allow students to configure the various components of CMS, such as Call Bridge, Web Bridge, and XMPP server. These systems will be integrated with Cisco Unified CM for call control, an LDAP server for authentication and directory services, and Cisco Expressway for firewall traversal, TURN server and Web Proxy capabilities to enable secure access for external, WebRTC-enabled browser clients. Third-party integrations, such as Skype for Business, are explored as well.