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102 Avaya Application Solutions IP Telephony Deployment Guide
Combined IP and fiber Port Network Connectivity
Communication Manager Release 3.0 enables the S8700-series and S8500 Servers to support
configurations that combine IP-connected port networks (IP-PNC) with fiber-connected port
networks (fiber-PNC).
Note:
Note: Fiber-PNC configurations include direct-connected, CSS-connected, and
ATM-connected port networks (PNs).
Additionally, in combined IP-PNC and fiber-PNC configurations with the S8700-series Server,
customers have the option of either single or duplicated control networks.
Combined IP-PNC and fiber-PNC configurations allow the following:
● Add IP-connected PNs to a fiber-PNC configuration using the simpler, less costly
connections over the customer LAN.
● Convert and consolidate, in an easy cost-effective way, remote standalone DEFINITY
servers (SI, CSI, or S8100) and their PNs into a single network of PNs controlled by, and
administered with, one server.
● Configure, within the single footprint of an MCC1 Media Gateway, multiple port networks
using IP-PNC, fiber-PNC, or a variety of combinations of the two. In this way, customers
have tremendous flexibility in configuring MCC1 Media Gateways to balance reliability, call
capacities, and feature richness.
● Configure reliability into a network in a more cost-effective, flexible way. Duplication of
control can be configured based on the criticality of the location or the needs of users
connected to a particular PN.
Combined IP-PNC and fiber-PNC configurations support the following platforms:
● S8500 and S8500B servers in both IP-PNC and direct-connect configurations with CMC1,
MCC1, SCC1 and G650 Media Gateways
● S8700-series Server pairs in IP-PNC and direct-connect configurations with CMC1,
MCC1, SCC1 and G650 Media Gateways
● S8700-series Server pairs in both IP-PNC and fiber-PNC with either CSS or ATM
configurations and CMC1, MCC1, SCC1 and G650 Media Gateways
Note:
Note: A single combined IP-PNC and fiber-PNC system cannot have a mixture of
connection types in the fiber-PNC segment. The port networks in the fiber-PNC
segment must be all direct-connected or all CSS-connected or all
ATM-connected.
