User's Manual

Administering Avaya Video Conferencing Solutions 6.1 19
DRAFT
Chapter 2: Design and deployment
The chapter provides information that helps you design and deploy the Avaya Video
Conferencing Solution. It covers managing your bandwidth to allow the quality of service
needed to optimize video and the administration on Communication Manager and System
Manager.
Note:
Note: For the latest firmware video compatibility matrix, go to Avaya Support
http://avaya.com/support and search for Firmware Video Compatibility Matrix.
Managing video on your network
The first step is to perform a network assessment to ensure that your network can support the
high-bandwidth demands of video over the network. Also, if not already implemented, consider
implementing Quality of Service (QoS) across your network. See Quality of Service
on page 20.
The next step is to determine how you want to manage video on your network. Audio and video
endpoints and high definition and standard definition video use different amounts of bandwidth.
Also, your enterprise may be spread out geographically. Grouping your bandwidth by
geographic location, audio versus video endpoints, and SIP versus H.323 video endpoint is a
logical method to guarantee enough bandwidth for video. For H.323 endpoints, you may want to
group by type of user: normal versus priority.
Within the Avaya Aura
®
solution, Communication Manager manages the bandwidth for H.323
video endpoints, and Session Manager manages the bandwidth for SIP video endpoints.
Some specific recommendations:
● For H.323 endpoints, use Network Regions within Communication Manager to create
bandwidth pools for your endpoints, for example priority users versus normal users for
H.323 endpoints only
● For SIP endpoints, use Locations within System Manager to group your endpoints.
The following data provides typical network bandwidth requirements for Avaya video
conferencing systems. Requirements for other systems may differ.
● Video bandwidth needed per call:
- For the Avaya 1010 and 1020 models:
● 1 Mbps for 720p/30fps
- For the Avaya 1030, 1040, and 1050 models:
● 768 kbps for 720p/30fps