Your campus's CalREN-DC gatekeeper will authenticate and manage videoconferencing traffic between H.323 devices on your campus and the regional CalREN-DC gatekeepers, which will in turn provide high-speed, reliable videoconferencing access to any H.323 device on the state-wide CalREN-DC network.

In order to implement this, each CODEC must be identified with a "dialing plan number," a unique numeric string, which functions in a way similar to a phone number.

Your campus has been assigned an address space within the CalREN-DC Video over IP Dialing Plan .

Different H.323 manufacturers use different terminology to refer to the dialing plan number, and have implemented different procedures for assigning one to their equipment. There is a very helpful web site developed by Pete Woodworth ( California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo ) which contains detailed instructions for setting up a variety of H.323 endpoints to work with the dialing plan.

Once you have a CODEC configured with a dial string, please test it using our 24/7 test site. The dialing string for that test site is:

1009001000

You may also wish to test your CODEC's ability to initiate a point-to-point videoconference using an IP address instead of a dialing plan number. The IP address for our test site is:

205.154.241.59

Last updated April 19, 2004 . Questions? Contact: webmaster@cenic.org