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Avaya Session Border Controller Overview and Specification
Edge Server for Converged Conference solution
The Converged Conference solution uses the features of Avaya Meetings Server V8.5 and Avaya Aura® Conferencing to provide a converged conferencing and web collaboration solution in a unified architecture.
In the converged conference solution, Avaya SBC:
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Acts as an Edge Server for the set of converged clients. The Edge Server enables the clients to access enterprise video infrastructure remotely across firewalls that block media ports.
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Provides firewall traversal for SIP, HTTP, and WebRTC devices and tunnels media where the firewall blocks media ports. Avaya SBC allows streams to come in through known ports for TLS/TCP.
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Makes video federation calls across companies possible. These calls can be across video endpoints between two enterprises that are behind a SIP Gateway or an SBC, and connected by a SIP trunk.
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Facilitates unregistered guest users to dial in to a video conference or dial out from a video conference.
The Converged Conference solution comprises the following:
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Converged Application Server: The components that are colocated on the same server or distributed based on deployment topology and scale. The components include a management application, conference focus, SIP back-to-back user agent, H.323 Gatekeeper, and a Unified User Portal.
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Web Service Gateway (WSGW): The HTTP to SIP Gateway for WebRTC and HTTP clients.
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Web Collaboration Server: Avaya Aura® Conferencing leveraged for real time Web Collaboration.
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Converged Media Server: Software-based media processing for transcoding and composition of video, high scale audio, and WebRTC audio/video support. The server uses the Avaya Scopia® Elite 6000 MCU framework. You can also use traditional Elite MCU with hardware accelerator blades as an alternative.
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Converged clients: New set of audio/video clients including Meet Me clients, WebRTC-based Thin Clients such as Simple WebRTC Chat (SWC), Avaya Workplace Client, and Avaya Meetings Server Avaya XT Series series of clients.
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Edge Server: Avaya SBC, Path finder (H.323), and Avaya Scopia Desktop Server. Avaya SBC provides Session Border Controller functionality for SIP calls, BFCP/FECC for XT series, reverse proxy functionality for HTTP, and TURN/STUN for WebRTC. Avaya Scopia Desktop Server is required for handling signaling and media for legacy Avaya Scopia® desktop mobile phones.
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Common management infrastructure for all components and devices.
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Conference recording and a content management system using WildCat.
The solution supports Avaya Aura®, IP Office, and cloud deployment from small to large distributed deployment, and virtualized deployments on cloud environments.