Multipoint control unit

A multipoint control unit (MCU) is a device commonly used to bridge videoconferencing connections.

Cisco TelePresence MCU 4505.

See also

• H.323

Further reading

• Willebeek-Lemair, M.H.; Kandlur, D.D.; Shae, Z.-Y. (1994). "On multipoint control units for videoconferencing". Proceedings of 19th Conference on Local Computer Networks. pp. 356–64. doi:10.1109/LCN.1994.386585. ISBN 978-0-8186-6680-3. S2CID 37097486.356-64&rft.date=1994&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:37097486#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/LCN.1994.386585&rft.isbn=978-0-8186-6680-3&rft.aulast=Willebeek-Lemair&rft.aufirst=M.H.&rft.au=Kandlur, D.D.&rft.au=Shae, Z.-Y.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Civanlar, M; Ozkasap, O; Celebi, T (2005). "Peer-to-peer multipoint videoconferencing on the Internet". Signal Processing: Image Communication. 20 (8): 743–54. doi:10.1016/j.image.2005.05.003.743-54&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/j.image.2005.05.003&rft.aulast=Civanlar&rft.aufirst=M&rft.au=Ozkasap, O&rft.au=Celebi, T&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Thom, G.A. (1996). "H.323: The multimedia communications standard for local area networks". IEEE Communications Magazine. 34 (12): 52–6. doi:10.1109/35.556487.52-6&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/35.556487&rft.aulast=Thom&rft.aufirst=G.A.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Blignault, Ilse (2000). "Multipoint Videoconferencing in Health: A Review of Three Years' Experience in Queensland, Australia". Telemedicine Journal. 6 (2): 269–74. doi:10.1089/107830200415216. PMID 10957740.269-74&rft.date=2000&rft_id=info:doi/10.1089/107830200415216&rft_id=info:pmid/10957740&rft.aulast=Blignault&rft.aufirst=Ilse&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Shaw-Min Lei; Ting-Chung Chen; Ming-Ting Sun (1994). "Video bridging based on H.261 standard". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 4 (4): 425–37. doi:10.1109/76.313137.425-37&rft.date=1994&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/76.313137&rft.au=Shaw-Min Lei&rft.au=Ting-Chung Chen&rft.au=Ming-Ting Sun&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Yangzhen Zou; Changjia Chen (1996). "MCU system software in video conference network". Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Technology. ICCT '96. pp. 173–7. doi:10.1109/ICCT.1996.545155. ISBN 978-0-7803-2916-4. S2CID 62230161.173-7&rft.date=1996&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:62230161#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/ICCT.1996.545155&rft.isbn=978-0-7803-2916-4&rft.au=Yangzhen Zou&rft.au=Changjia Chen&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Li, Junlin; He, Li-wei; Florencio, Dinei (2007). "Multi-Party Audio Conferencing Based on a Simpler MCU and Client-Side ECHO Cancellation". Multimedia and Expo, 2007 IEEE International Conference on. pp. 84–7. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.115.9923. doi:10.1109/ICME.2007.4284592. ISBN 978-1-4244-1016-3. S2CID 5744906.84-7&rft.date=2007&rft_id=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.115.9923#id-name=CiteSeerX&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5744906#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/ICME.2007.4284592&rft.isbn=978-1-4244-1016-3&rft.aulast=Li&rft.aufirst=Junlin&rft.au=He, Li-wei&rft.au=Florencio, Dinei&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">
• Willebeek-Lemair, M.H.; Shae, Z.-Y. (1995). "Centralized versus distributed schemes for videoconferencing". Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems. pp. 85–93. doi:10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524972. ISBN 978-0-8186-7125-8. S2CID 29249967.85-93&rft.date=1995&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:29249967#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524972&rft.isbn=978-0-8186-7125-8&rft.aulast=Willebeek-Lemair&rft.aufirst=M.H.&rft.au=Shae, Z.-Y.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Multipoint control unit" class="Z3988">