A hundred employees at an all-hands is three hundred connections to the cloud. With Meetings Hybrid it is three: a node in your network distributes the media itself, and one consolidated stream goes out.
Zoom Node is Zoom's platform for your data centre: a virtual machine with a hardened operating system image that Zoom manages from the cloud and updates itself, weekly or monthly. Up to four modules are installed on one node, and Meetings Hybrid is the main one.
The module works in two modes. Hybrid: participants in the office connect to the node, it distributes audio, video and screen sharing inside the network, and one consolidated stream goes to the Zoom cloud. For a meeting of a hundred people that is three external connections instead of three hundred. Private: the meeting lives entirely on site, no media goes to the cloud at all. Internal participants connect via a private address, external ones via a public one, and cloud features such as transcription and translation are enabled optionally.
Local survivability is built into both modes: when Zoom's data centres are unreachable, meetings inside the network continue. One node holds up to 400 participants, and modules cascade for large events. Recordings of such meetings can be kept on site with the Recording Hybrid module, and legacy SIP and H.323 room systems join through CRC Hybrid.
Fully cloud Zoom is convenient, but not every regulation and not every link can carry it.
Three hundred outbound streams become three. The all-hands no longer kills the internet for everyone else.
In private mode the meeting's audio and video do not leave the site. The regulator gets an answer in technology, not a promise.
The internet goes down and meetings inside the network go on. Survivability is built into the module, not bought separately.
Modes, capacity, management, neighbouring modules
The node distributes media inside the network and keeps one consolidated connection to the cloud. Every Zoom feature is there, the link is relieved.
The meeting entirely on site, no media in the cloud. Internal participants via a private address, external via a public one.
In private mode transcription, translation and other cloud features can be enabled separately, if the rules allow.
Built into the module. When Zoom's data centres are unreachable, meetings inside the network continue and new ones are created.
One node holds up to 400 participants at a time. For larger meetings modules cascade.
Zoom Node is a VM with a hardened OS image from Zoom. The hardware is yours, the operating system and updates come from Zoom.
Managed automatic updates weekly or monthly. The Node dashboard and the web portal show the state, with cloud alerts and logs.
Recordings of hybrid meetings and webinars are stored locally. The module sits alongside and requires Meetings Hybrid.
Meetings Hybrid, Recording Hybrid, Chat Hybrid, CRC Hybrid, Phone Local Survivability. Up to four on one node.
The module is licensed separately, paid, on a Zoom account with Node support. Virtual infrastructure for the Zoom image and account administrator rights are needed.
Wherever the link is narrow, the rules are strict or the internet is unreliable
One link for everyone, an all-hands once a week. Hybrid mode leaves the link to the others.
Internal meetings in private mode: media does not leave the site. External participants join via the public address.
Private mode for closed meetings, hybrid for the rest. One node, two policies.
Case conferences inside the clinic's network, recording with Recording Hybrid on your own storage.
Survivability keeps meetings running through outages. Employees keep working while the provider fixes the link.
Sizing the number of nodes and modules, deploying the VMs and connecting them to the account, configuring modes by group, testing survivability by cutting the link, training the administrator. Then support in Russian.
Doctors' video conferences had to be kept on the organization's own premises.
We'll give you a remote demo Monday to Friday, 10:00–16:00 Moscow time, answer all your questions and provide trial access so you can explore the system yourself.
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