Bridging h323 video calls with Call Manager ?

Our Cisco rep has just told us that CallManager can act as a "full featured" multi-point video conferencing bridge. We were discussing this in the context of the new Cisco/Tanberg IP Phones with video cameras.
Anyone got this running in a production enviornment ?
Does this only work with Cisco/Tanberg phones ? or can I use my VTEL, Polycom, VCON endpoints ?
What about its interaction with our existing video bridge, a Polycom MGC unit ?
Comments ?

While it would be great if CallManager itself could act as a MCU, it does not. It does however have the capability to allow an IP/VC MCU running SCCP register with it directly or allow for calls to be sent to IP/VC MCU running H.323 via a H.323 Trunk or Gateway.
As for your other questions. In a SCCP environment this would Ad-hoc video conferencing using the softkey on the phone works fully with Cisco Phones (7940/60/70) running with Cisco VT Advantage and Tandberg units that are running SCCP code. It is possible to allow for other endpoints such as Polycom to be part of these conferences. One note here is that there can be some interaction issues if a unit does not fully support Empty Capabilities Set (ECS) whereby features such as hold, transfer, or forward are supported.
Interaction with existing video bridges could work. At least along the lines of using these in an H.323 scenario. It could be possible to build a H.323 Trunk that point to a Gatekeeper where the MCU is registered and have calls be routed to that device.
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