User's Manual

Configuring Avaya Aura® Conferencing
Administering Avaya Video Conferencing Solution 6.0.1 Issue 2.1 April 15, 2011 55
Configuring Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing
This section describes how to configure Conferencing.
Checklist
When setting up an Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing, you will need to know the following information:
● the IP codec sets you want to use
● the IP network regions you want use
● the Priority Factory Number and the Standard Factory Number to use in the
Communication Manager system and the Conferencing.
Pre-requisites
Before configuring an Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing, keep in mind the following information:
● For more information on the Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing, refer to the Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing Installation Guide. This document is available on
support.avaya.com.
● Ad-hoc supports six audio callers per conference.
● Schedule supports 16 video callers per Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing scheduled conference.
● Each 6800 bridge can support up to 2000 video ports
● Each conference can support up to 16 video participant.
● The Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing audio conferencing server supports video from version 6.0
onwards. For more information on the manual configuration process, see
Adding a SIP
Trunk Group for the Conferencing on page 57.
● The configuration process is the same Whether you configure a single instance of
Communication Manager or multiple instances of Communication Manager with the Avaya
Aura
®
Conferencing video solution.
● The video capacity for each Convedia MPC varies depending on bit rate, picture size, and
frame rate. See the following table.
Table 1: Video Capacity
Total Bit Rate Picture SIze
(MPI)
Audio Codec # Ports per
MPC
Resource
Allocation for
Video (%)
768 Kbit/s CIF:1 G.711 45 91
384 Kbit/s CIF:2 G.711 90 75
128 Kbit/s QCIF:4 G.711 250 75