Instruction manual

Avaya Media Servers and Media Gateways
Issue 4 May 2003 35555-233-767
Avaya Media Servers and Media
Gateways
The following hardware products are components of Communication Manager:
■ Avaya S8300 Media Server and Avaya G700 Media Gateway
■ Avaya S8700 Media Server for IP Connect configurations
■ Avaya S8700 Media Server for Multi-Connect configurations
■ Avaya S8700 Media Server controlling a remote G700 Media Gateway
(with or without an Avaya™ S8300 Media Server configured as an LSP).
■ Avaya S8100 Media Server
Avaya S8300 Media Server and Avaya G700
Media Gateway
The Avaya S8300 Media Server and G700 Media Gateway combination
seamlessly delivers a business’s voice, fax, and messaging capabilities over an
IP network. This unique combination converges the power of the Communication
Manager feature set with the power of distributed switching from the Avaya
Cajun™ P330 line of network switches.
Several elements comprise an S8300 Media Server and G700 Media Gateway
combination:
■ A G700 Media Gateway is always required. It can host an S8300 Media
Server or various other media modules depending on the telephony needs
at a particular location. Key components include the Cajun stack processor,
Media Gateway Processor (MGP), and Voice over IP (VoIP) engine on the
MGP board.
■ The S8300 Media Server is a special type of media module. It supports the
Communication Manager that provides call-processing capabilities for the
system. The S8300 Media Server can be configured as the primary call
controller, or as a Local Survivable Processor (LSP) standby server for
either an S8700 Media Server or for another S8300 Media Server in the
configuration.
■ Communication Manager provides the call processing and telephony
features. It resides on the S8300 Media Server, or on a remote S8700
Media Server if the G700 Media Gateway does not contain an S8300
Media Server.
Each of these components must be correctly configured in order to bring a system
into service. The different components also need ongoing administration and
maintenance in order to upgrade or to expand the system, or to diagnose problems
if they arise.