Metro: Self-service Conferencing
Meet the on-premises VQ app that empowers hybrid workers to collaborate flexibly and securely, using your Cisco infrastructure.
VQ Conference Manager Metro gives employees the freedom to communicate from just about anywhere, using virtually any device.
Consistent user experiences across desktop, tablet and mobile
Metro provides a consistent interface for employees to schedule, host, and join video and audio calls, using a range of devices.
Access Metro on desktop, tablet, and smartphone, either as a native app, or in a web browser.
Powerful scheduling and in-call controls
Metro offers the in-call functionality employees expect from a modern audio and video client. This includes pre-call video and audio previews, participant controls, audio and video management, and background blur.
For organizations not using for Cisco Meeting Server call scheduling, Metro includes scheduling and notifications.
Multi-language user interface
International teams can change the Metro user interface language between English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, and Arabic.
Please contact us if you need additional languages – we can add more relatively quickly.
Dual call streams enable in-call interpreters, translators, and more
Users can connect to two calls simultaneously, with the second video and/or audio stream overlayed on the first.
Sign language interpreters
Enable deaf users to participate in meetings, by overlaying the video from their main call with the stream from one of your sign language interpreters.
Translators for multi-language meetings
Help people follow multi-lingual meetings. Users connect to the main call and your interpreter, who live-translates the foreign language sections. This gives users a seamless single-language experience.
Virtual courtrooms
Protect victims and witnesses during virtual hearings, by allowing the judge to speak to them in private, without leaving the main courtroom.
Microsoft Outlook integration
Metro adds powerful CMS call scheduling and management capabilities directly into Microsoft Outlook. Add joining instructions to any calendar invite. Manage meeting Spaces. And when it’s time to join a call, there’s one-click access to the full Metro client.
Microsoft Teams integration
Microsoft Teams is an essential productivity tool for many workforces. Metro conveniently blends Teams’ powerful collaboration capabilities with the quality, predictability and security of call experience you get with Cisco infrastructure.
Built using Microsoft Graph, Metro for Teams enables employees to manage their Cisco meeting Spaces from within Microsoft Teams, and add Space details with one-click joining instructions to Teams chats and channels.
Cisco collaboration devices and OBTP
Metro works with your Cisco in-room collaboration devices. Users can log in on desk and room endpoints to manage and join their upcoming calls.
Plus, VQ Conference Manager integrates with Cisco One Button To Push (OBTP) to make joining meetings a breeze. Call invitations sent to a room or user with Cisco collaboration equipment will bring up a one-tap ‘Join’ button on the device at the start of the meeting.
OBTP with VQ supports calls on Cisco Meeting Server, as well as other services such as Webex and Microsoft Teams CVI.*
* Webex and Teams CVI integration with OBTP requires VQ Conference Manager’s hybrid calendar add-on.
On the Metro roadmap…
There are exciting developments on the Metro roadmap. These will bring an ever-more Webex-like experience for customers whose conferencing needs to remain self-hosted.
As part of this, we’ll be adding further integrations with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), to enable greater collaboration flexibility.