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Conferences

The Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution is a meet me conferencing solution which provides audio, video, and Web conferencing. The Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution provides the ability to deploy Avaya Aura® Conferencing within the Avaya Aura® stack. The Avaya Aura® PBX stack refers to staging and management software such as System Platform and System Manager. With the Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution, a lower total cost of ownership is driven by a unified infrastructure, simplified management and lower acquisition, upgrade, and bandwidth costs. Avaya Aura® comprises a number of key components that work together to provide a powerful unified communications solution. The following components provide integrated management of the solution:
  • Avaya Aura® Session Manager

  • Avaya Aura® System Manager

  • Avaya Aura® Conferencing components

  • Feature servers and access elements

Users can connect to the conference using audio and/or video by way of any of the PBX clients, by way of Audio Video in Collaboration Agent embedded in Collaboration Agent, or by way of the Avaya Aura® Conferencing mobile clients. Additionally, users can join Web collaboration using the Collaboration Agent interface and other Unified Communications (UC) clients.

Administrators can manage the Avaya Aura® Conferencing components and users using the Avaya Aura® System Manager, the Element Manager, and Provisioning interfaces. In addition, administrators can bulk provision users by way of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Administrators can deploy the Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution on bare metal servers. A bare metal environment refers to the installation of a server directly on to hardware rather than within the host operating system. Alternatively, the Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution supports virtualization through VMWare.

This solution is available for all deployment models and so is suited to small to medium (SMB), medium, and large enterprises.

The sample configuration, documented here, is for a large enterprise.

There are two large configurations for Avaya Aura® Conferencing:
  • Large simplex

  • Large with redundancy

A redundant configuration incurs additional costs, which the simplex solution does not incur. Large enterprises require the following to support redundancy:
  • A second server

  • An ADC, which provides load-balancing

Additionally, customers have the option of expanding their system to support up to 30,000 users, running 3000 concurrent sessions, by adding additional servers. This expansion can continue up to a maximum of 150,000 users.

Figure 1. Large Simplex Configuration The graphic shows an architecture diagram which represents the Avaya Aura Conferencing servers and their typical layout in relation to the main site and a remote site.
Figure 2. Large Redundant Configuration The graphic shows an architecture diagram which represents the Avaya Aura Conferencing servers and their typical layout in relation to the main site and a remote site. The graphic shows how a redundant solution could be implemented by installing duplicate servers in the main site.

Hardware

Avaya recommends the following hardware for an Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution in a large enterprise.

Server Chassis type CPU Memory RAID NIC Applications
HP ProLiant DL360 G9 1U
  • 2xOCT core

  • 2.6GHz E5-2640v3

4x8=32 4x300 (RAID10) (600 MB)
  • MB

  • 6 port

Core Server

Avaya Aura® Media Server and Web Conferencing server (WCS) when deployed without recording

Hosting Avaya Aura® Media Serverwhen deployed without recording1

Hosting WCS

Flash Media Gateway for Audio/Video in Collaboration Agent

Large Document Conversion Server (DCS)

Collaboration Agent (CA)

HP ProLiant DL360 G9 + Disk Kit 1U
  • 2xOCT core

  • 2.6GHz E5-2640v3

4x8=32
  • 4x300

  • RAID 10

  • (300 MB);

  • 4x900

  • RAID 10

  • (1.8 TB)

  • MB

  • 6 port

Avaya Aura® Media Server and Web Conferencing server (WCS) when deployed with recording

Hosting Avaya Aura® Media Serverwhen deployed with recording

HP ProLiant DL360 G9 1U
  • 1xHEX core

  • 2.4GHz E5-2620v3

4x8=32 2x300 (RAID1) (300 MB)
  • MB

  • 6 port

Cascading server

Software

The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is available for deployments that use the Avaya Aura® Public Branch eXchange (PBX). The Avaya Aura® PBX stack includes staging and management software such as System Platform and System Manager.

The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is also available for deployments that do not use the Avaya Aura® PBX. Deployments that use an alternative PBX are typically called Turnkey deployments. Once installed, the Avaya Aura® Conferencing software behaves in the same way in Avaya Aura® and Turnkey environments.

For more information on Turnkey deployments, see Overview and Specification for Turnkey, which is available from https://support.avaya.com/.

The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is suitable for bare metal environments and also for virtual environments. A ‘bare metal’ environment refers to the installation of a server directly on to hardware rather than within the host operating system. A virtual environment refers to the concealment of the physical characteristics of a computing platform. The virtual environment is enabled by way of VMWare.

1 If you want to add the recording feature at a later date, you can buy a disk kit to provide recording functionality.