PROVISION OF VIDEO CONFERENCING SERVICES USING A MICROPOP TO EXTEND MEDIA PROCESSING INTO ENTERPRISE NETWORKS

摘要

Embodiments are described for provision of video conferencing media processing services within enterprise networks. In some embodiments, at least one data stream from at least one internal endpoint of a video conference participant is received at an enterprise media processing node and the at least one internal endpoint is accessible to the enterprise media processing node behind a firewall on an enterprise network, translating and transcoding of the received at least one data stream into a predefined common communication protocol is selectively performed, at least one data stream in the common communication protocol is received at an external media processing node using a firewall friendly protocol to traverse the firewall from at least one external endpoint and the at least one external endpoint communicating with the external media processing node outside the enterprise network, a composite data stream of the received data streams from endpoints within the enterprise network and outside the enterprise network is selectively generated, and the composite data stream is sent to the at least one internal endpoint using a corresponding communication protocol used by the at least one internal endpoint.