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Avaya Communication Manager
Issue 6 January 2008 19
Avaya Media Gateways support voice traffic and signaling traffic that is routed between
circuit-switched networks and packet-switched networks. The Gateways support all the
applications and adjuncts that can be used with the Avaya DEFINITY Enterprise
Communications Servers (DEFINITY ECS). These Gateways work with standards-based data
networks and easily connect with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
Communication Manager is extensible to IP, digital and analog telephones, and wireless
business solutions. Avaya Communication Devices work with the full feature set of
Communication Manager to help enterprises be more productive by providing anytime,
anywhere access to maximize business continuity.
Avaya Communication Manager
Avaya Communication Manager provides user and system management functionality, intelligent
call routing, application integration and extensibility, and enterprise communications networking.
Communication Manager operates on Avaya servers, and on the existing family of DEFINITY
servers. For more information on the Avaya Application Solutions related features of
Communication Manager, see
Call processing on page 125.
Avaya servers
An Avaya server provides centralized, enterprise-class call processing. This call processing can
be distributed across a multi-protocol network (including IP) to support a highly diversified
network architecture that consists of headquarters, branch, remote, small, and home offices.
Linux-based servers
The Avaya S8300, S8400, S8500, S8700-series, and SES-SIP are Linux-based servers. These
servers support:
● Distributed IP Networking and centralized call processing across multi-service networks
● Dual server design with hot fail-over (S8700-series Server only)
● Redundant LAN Interfaces and remote survivable call processing
For more information on the architecture and the functionality of the servers, see Hardware
Description and Reference for Avaya Communication Manager, 555-245-207.
Avaya DEFINITY Servers
Avaya Communication Manager also runs on the following DEFINITY Servers, which can be
IP-enabled: