VQ at Cisco Live
We’re delighted to announce that we will be heading back to Las Vegas in June for Cisco Live.
Cisco Live has been hugely successful for us in previous years and this year, based on that success, we’re going big.
During the event, you’ll be able to find us on our stand in the Collaboration Village and we will also have two Meeting Room suites.
Collaboration Village
On our stand in the Collaboration Village, we’ll be introducing VQ Conference Manager 3.12 and DMA Device Monitoring.
We will also be showcasing our Metro client and a concept we call “North”. North enables VQ and CMS/Cisco infrastructure and investments to be integrated into other collaboration tools bringing the advantage of Cisco mission critical dependability, call quality and cost of ownership.
We will also be showing the same functionality on our 4.x platform (which is listed on the US Department of Defense Information Network Approved Product List )
Meeting Room 1
Are you looking to replace TMS?
Look no further than the Cisco recommended on-premise replacement – VQ Conference Manager DMA.
Schedule a meeting with us at Cisco Live to discuss our replacement product and understand the migration journey from TMS to DMA.
In this meeting room, you’ll also be able to chat with VQ’s CEO and Product Management team about the functionality of DMA and our exciting roadmap plans for the next 12 months.
Meeting Room 2
Meeting Room 2 is a new addition for us at Cisco Live this year and has been designed as a “Meet the Expert” opportunity with VQ Software Engineers.
Details of each session and their booking links can be found below…
Kibana - DMA, Expressway, Mapping & Alerts
Host – Ethan Jones
Duration – 45 minutes
Ethan’s prepared content will cover the following, but we would also like to encourage the “we’d like to do the following” discussions..
CMS
- Drilling down into meeting call performance data. Are issues participant specific or system wide?
- Call bridges dashboard; exploring call bridge analytics data
DMA
- Find and explore specific devices, activities and information
- Overview of DMA dashboards; bulk operation results; identify failures and fault cause
- Mapping makes its first appearance in DMA’s dashboards
Expressway
- Second generation Expressway dashboards
- Visualization tooling that correlate VQ, CMS and Expressway logging and call data information from across your estate of CMS and Expressways. Visualize how traffic is flowing across your network into CMS and drill down into individual participant calls to see how they performed and the route taken
Kibana 8 – coming soon
- Introducing the Alerting functionality that’s new in Kibana 8 (VQCM currently uses Kibana 7). User interface based and a massive step forward from the current generation Watchers. Summary; if you need to set data triggers and actions, this is the one for you.
- A quick introduction in how Kibana 8 gets us to user specific reporting and, for example, read-only access
Metro, Teams and Microsoft 365
Host – Phil Jones
Duration – 45 minutes
- Come and talk to the driver behind all this work and chat about where it can go. We have ideas and we’ll show, for example, Blast Dial integrated into Teams
- Tight integration with Microsoft 365 – schedule meetings in Outlook with VQ M365 events tracking changes via the M365 Graph API
- We’d like to hear what you’d like to do and the problems you’d like to solve. How would you like a tighter integration between your business workflow processes and what’s happening in your collaboration service?
Metro’s WebRTC SDK, cross platform & device integration
Host – Phil Jones
Duration – 45 minutes
- Let’s say you’d like to add CMS based video to your web page or your application (eg: CRM or Healthcare). Phil’s work over the last 15 months includes producing a high-level tool kit (SDK) that provides high level, abstract, Typescript (JavaScript) APIs that enables adding WebRTC audio, video and content sharing to just about anything. And quickly. And no experience of WebRTC required
API overview and examples (eg: scheduling, device management & provisioning)
Host – Fin Horsley
Duration – 45 minutes
- Fin works on designing the API and working with customers who want to consume it. He knows a thing or two about what customers are doing. Examples include schedulers, device management and integration with provisioning engines. So, if you are considering how you integrate your CMS/VQ with other systems or automate processes, schedule a session with Fin.
- Sample code will also be available
Ansible - Automating collaboration infrastructure
Host – Tim Corrin
Duration – 45 minutes
- Tim has driven the adoption of Ansible within VQ. We use it extensively within the product and automating the provisioning of our test infrastructure and tooling. For example, configuring our CMS clusters
- Tim also was a driver behind the amazingness of CM-Admin’s certificate tooling. If you know about Ansible, come talk to Tim about how we can automate a whole bunch of things you might be doing manually currently
- If you don’t know about Ansible, come talk to Tim and have a lightbulb moment; it might change how you think about managing your UC infrastructure. And save a whole chunk of time and people resources
APL, 4.x and HA
Host – Tim Corrin
Duration – 45 minutes
4.x platform roadmap
- We’ve got a really strong roadmap on the 4.x platform. Come talk to Tim and get a better understanding of where we’re going for things like High Availability (HA)
Participant Identity and Call-Gate (OAuth, FIDO, CIBA)
Hosts – Fin Horsley & Phil Jones
Duration – 45 minutes
Ever thought you’d like to have more protection around your meetings than just PINs?
- Call-gate (and Web-Gate) blend the goodness of OAuth and 2FA to create participant meeting specific access control and invite details. Targeted at environments where a high degree of confidence is required about the participants being who you think they are. We have launch customers and this functionality is coming down the line. We’d like to talk to customers who think this might be interesting
Talk through your VQ & CMS deployment scenario
Host – Tim Corrin
Duration – 45 minutes
Tim has encyclopaedic knowledge of VQCM, CMS and how they are used.
- If you are considering deploying CMS and VQ and would like to talk thru what you are considering, this is your opportunity to get some time with somebody who knows a thing or two about the topic
Understanding VQ Conference Manager Licensing
Host – Steve Holmes
Duration – 45 minutes
- Explore the VQ Conference Manager licensing options, work through examples and take the opportunity to ask any questions to VQ’s VP of Sales
- Attendees to receive additional 5% discount on VQ orders placed via Cisco before the end of Oct 2023. (T’s & C’s Apply)
Come and meet with one of our customers…
We’ve invited a really interesting customer, netconnex , to join us and show their service offering. netconnex offer a full GDPR compliant Cisco based private cloud unified communications platform as a service (think of a Cisco Webex Meeting Server replacement).
