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A '''multipoint control unit''' ('''MCU''') is a device commonly used to bridge{{jargon inline|date=April 2025}} [[videoconferencing]] connections.

== See also ==
* [[H.323]]

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |pages=356–64 |doi=10.1109/LCN.1994.386585 |chapter=On multipoint control units for videoconferencing |title=Proceedings of 19th Conference on Local Computer Networks |year=1994 |last1=Willebeek-Lemair |first1=M.H. |last2=Kandlur |first2=D.D. |last3=Shae |first3=Z.-Y. |isbn=978-0-8186-6680-3|s2cid=37097486 }}
*{{cite journal |pages=743–54 |doi=10.1016/j.image.2005.05.003 |title=Peer-to-peer multipoint videoconferencing on the Internet |year=2005 |last1=Civanlar |first1=M |last2=Ozkasap |first2=O |last3=Celebi |first3=T |journal=Signal Processing: Image Communication |volume=20 |issue=8}}
*{{cite journal |pages=52–6 |doi=10.1109/35.556487 |title=H.323: The multimedia communications standard for local area networks |year=1996 |last1=Thom |first1=G.A. |journal=IEEE Communications Magazine |volume=34 |issue=12}}
*{{cite journal |pages=269–74 |doi=10.1089/107830200415216 |title=Multipoint Videoconferencing in Health: A Review of Three Years' Experience in Queensland, Australia |year=2000 |last1=Blignault |first1=Ilse |journal=Telemedicine Journal |volume=6 |issue=2 |pmid=10957740}}
*{{cite journal |pages=425–37 |doi=10.1109/76.313137 |title=Video bridging based on H.261 standard |year=1994 |last1=Shaw-Min Lei |last2=Ting-Chung Chen |last3=Ming-Ting Sun |journal=IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology |volume=4 |issue=4}}
*{{cite book |pages=173–7 |doi=10.1109/ICCT.1996.545155 |chapter=MCU system software in video conference network |title=Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Technology. ICCT '96 |year=1996 |last1=Yangzhen Zou |last2=Changjia Chen |isbn=978-0-7803-2916-4|s2cid=62230161 }}
*{{cite book |pages=84–7 |doi=10.1109/ICME.2007.4284592 |chapter=Multi-Party Audio Conferencing Based on a Simpler MCU and Client-Side ECHO Cancellation |title=Multimedia and Expo, 2007 IEEE International Conference on |year=2007 |last1=Li |first1=Junlin |last2=He |first2=Li-wei |last3=Florencio |first3=Dinei |isbn=978-1-4244-1016-3|citeseerx=10.1.1.115.9923 |s2cid=5744906 }}
*{{cite book |pages=85–93 |doi=10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524972 |chapter=Centralized versus distributed schemes for videoconferencing |title=Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems |year=1995 |last1=Willebeek-Lemair |first1=M.H. |last2=Shae |first2=Z.-Y. |isbn=978-0-8186-7125-8|s2cid=29249967 }}

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