Software-based MCU Server for Video Conferencing

Intuitive interface

TrueConf MCU features a user-friendly interface that enables fast and seamless conference management. Monitor your meetings, manage participants’ devices, and track system performance in real time.

Advanced meeting controls

Manage the audio and video streams of conference participants

Sort the list of active participants and move them between ongoing meetings on the fly

Focus on a specific participant or determine whose video to display during the meeting

Lock your conference to prevent unauthorized users from joining the session or set PIN protection

Smart video layouts

With TrueConf MCU, you can choose among multiple video layouts and lock the view for all meeting participants or create a custom layout per each endpoint. Manage panes on the fly and assign additional content slots, while our smart system autofills the layout for you.

Interoperability with H.323/SIP endpoints

Make full use of your legacy video conferencing endpoints: send and receive content, manage customized layouts, and connect through NAT. TrueConf MCU is compatible with a diverse fleet of devices: Poly, Cisco, Avaya, Lifesize, Huawei, Sony, and others.

TrueConf MCU network scheme

Waiting rooms

As an administrator, you can create waiting rooms and move all participants there before the meeting starts to make sure they are all set up for the upcoming event.

Customized audio channels for simultaneous interpreting

Split the meeting audience by channels where participants can be assigned the role of speakers or listeners. This feature greatly facilitates multilingual virtual events that require simultaneous interpretation into multiple languages.

TrueConf MCU Free

Free version of the software-based MCU server for legacy video conferencing endpoints.

Multipoint video conferences for up to 100 active connections
Unlimited meeting time
Recording, scheduling, and conference management tools
Global and individual video layouts

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Industry Recognition

Powered by award-winning video conferencing technology, TrueConf is honored to be recognized in IDC MarketScape and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions for three consecutive years.

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High-level performance for low bandwidth

TrueConf MCU prevents channel congestion and ensures best possible video and audio quality for everyone in a conference. As an administrator, you can select the maximum bitrate, audio and video codecs for each video conferencing participant right in the address book.

Unlimited opportunities with TrueConf Server

TrueConf MCU is fully compatible with TrueConf Server, a software platform for unified communications and collaboration. Connect TrueConf Server to enjoy 4K conferencing, telephony and Active Directory integration, group messaging, and much more!

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Unlimited opportunities with TrueConf Server

Affordable infrastructure

TrueConf MCU runs both in popular virtualization environments and any Linux distros with Intel or AMD CPU. You can install and set up this solution yourself by following our detailed instructions.

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Maximum number of active connections

100

Up to 150
up to 250 in cascading mode

Maximum number of simultaneously running conferences

Unlimited

Meeting time limit

Unlimited

Internet connection

Number of contacts in the address book

Unlimited

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Multipoint video conferences for H.323/SIP endpoints

Global and individual video layouts

Recording, scheduling and conference management tools

Real-time monitoring & analytics

Cascading conferences to external servers

Empower your video conferencing experience with cutting-edge capabilities of TrueConf MCU!

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FAQ

How does TrueConf MCU compare to the products from other vendors?

TrueConf MCU is easy to use and administrate, provides a free version, and offers built-in tools for streaming. Additionally, it supports hardware transcoding acceleration to increase MCU capacity.

What are the terms for using TrueConf MCU Free?

The free version can be used for an unlimited period of time. The only requirement is to renew the free license on an annual basis and permanent connection to our registration server via 443 TCP port.

What operating systems does TrueConf MCU support?

TrueConf MCU can be installed on Linux-based operating systems (Debian-family distributions, 64-bit).

Can I activate TrueConf MCU Free without Internet connection?

No, offline operation is only available to the customers who acquired the full version of TrueConf MCU. If you’d like to get a trial version of TrueConf MCU that operates offline without Internet connection, please contact our sales team.

What is MCU technology?

Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) is a video transcoding server that manages multiple SIP/H 323 endpoints simultaneously, coordinates data processing between them, and forwards media streams during a video communication session. MCUs can be either hardware or software deployed in a virtual environment.

What is multipoint video conferencing?

Multipoint conference connects 3+ locations, e.g. meeting rooms, into a single video communication session, allowing all participants to interact and collaborate in real-time. With TrueConf multipoint calls, you can host engaging roundtable discussions for up to 36 on-screen users, exchange messages and files, share content, record sessions for future playback, and more.

What are the data transfer technologies in multipoint video conferencing?

There are four main architecture types of multipoint video communication systems:

• SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit). It is a traditional video conference based on media stream forwarding.

• Simulcast. It is based on parallel video streams forwarding that are redirected to meeting participants in a resolution that matches their bandwidth.

• SVC (Scalable Video Coding). It enables transferring multiple basic and secondary substreams of different quality into one stream to adjust to the varying endpoint characteristics, e.g. CPU or bandwidth.

• MCU (Multipoint Control Unit). This mixing-based architecture incorporates server-side data processing: upon gathering primary videos from all the participants, it creates a single media stream with the layout requested by the endpoint.

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