Cisco Meeting Server is Cisco's on-premises video conferencing server, run on Cisco hardware or VMware. Pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Jitsi Meet or BigBlueButton.
Comparing Cisco Meeting Server with self-hosted Jitsi Meet for on-premises video: Call Bridge and Meeting Management against Jitsi's videobridges, PMP Plus and SMP Plus host licensing against no license fees, SIP interoperability and the support model.
For universities and training teams running Cisco Meeting Server: BigBlueButton's classroom tools and LMS integrations against CMS spaces, the hardware each needs, and the room-system and SIP features BigBlueButton does not try to replace.
Moving meetings from Cisco Meeting Server to Jitsi: sizing videobridges, SSO or JWT authentication, recreating spaces as persistent room names, SIP dial-in through Jigasi, and what happens to video endpoints registered to CUCM during the change.
Cost of ownership by component: Meeting Server hardware or VMware hosts, PMP Plus and SMP Plus licenses through Smart Licensing, Meeting Management and Cisco support, against Jitsi servers, bandwidth, operations and paid support.
For owners of the Meeting Server 2000 M6, which has no direct replacement: the choices between Cisco's Medium series, CMS on VMware, Webex in the cloud and an open-source stack, with the dates that set the timeline.
For classified and disconnected networks that run CMS today: how Smart Licensing and Meeting Management registration fit an offline network, against Jitsi or BigBlueButton servers that need no license server, and how updates reach them.
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