Nortel Networks NN44470-100 manual Continuous streaming, Directory provider, RSS provider

Page 24

- 24 -

MAS commissioning

Continuous streaming

The MAS platform supports continuous streaming of pretranscoded real-time audio that applications can use to facilitate a radio broadcast effect. With this feature, applications can give sessions music-on-hold streaming or connect the sessions to Internet-streaming radio servers. Multiple sessions can listen to the same real-time audio stream without the cost of transcoding the stream on each session or connecting each session to a remote server.

The MAS platform can stream from the following providers: Directory or RSS. The following sections describe these providers in detail.

To adjust the continuous stream volume, use the Nortel MAS Console to edit the Continuous Streaming Volume Adjustment (dB) property (specify the value in decibels [dB]).

Directory provider

With the directory provider, files in a local directory can be transcoded, cached, and played indefinitely in alphabetic order. Continuous playback is achieved by repeating the sequence. The platform monitors the directory and detects any changes made for dynamic updates.

To configure the Directory Provider you must create a directory inside %BASEDIR%\platdata\StreamSource\ChannelRoot. This directory name is the channel name that the application specifies and is used to stream from this source. Nortel recommends that you place all audio files in this directory.

RSS provider

The RSS provider can retrieve and parse Real Simple Syndication (RSS) documents. The RSS provider downloads the contents of these documents so the directory provider can play them. The RSS provider supports the following features:

•automatic RSS feed synchronization —to automatically add and remove content

•time-to-live attribute—to update content

•fault tolerance—to preserve local files until files are safely downloaded

•MP3 and WAV content types

RSS is a dialect of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the platform currently supports RSS 2.0. For more information, see the RSS 2.0 specification document at www.rss-specification.com.

The platform is currently limited to RSS documents that are no larger than 260 kbytes. The following illustration shows a sample RSS 2.0 document.

Nortel Media Application Server 6.0 for AS 5300

Fundamentals

NN44470-100 01.01 Standard

Release 6.0 03 June 2008

Copyright © 2008, Nortel Networks

Page 23 Page 25
Image 24
Page 23 Page 25
Contents Fundamentals Page Contents Nortel MAS Console Features New in this releaseNavigation Other changesIntroduction MAS installation Architecture and supported hardware and softwareSystem architecture Network architectureSession controller Vxml browserSIP Multimedia Conductor Sipmc Multimedia ControllerMultimedia Content Store MAS installationIVR media processor Ivrmp Conference media processorOptions for MAS application deployment Application deployment options Music On HoldAnnouncements Unified CommunicationsMaintenance Releases Co-resident deploymentCo-resident Application Deployment including Meet Me Co-resident Application Deployment excluding Meet MePackaged application installation and licensing MAS commissioningAS 5300 commissioning for MAS Packaged applicationsConfiguration data MAS clustersOperational state Persistent content storage Controller Peer Ring SIP signaling SIP propertiesSIP domains SIP accounts SIP trusted nodesSIP routes SIP proxy serversMedia conferencing SIP registrar serversBasic conferencing algorithm Premium conferencing algorithmMixing different codecs Media settings Audio codecsVideo codecs Digit relayQuality of Service ConferencingQoS properties Property Description Continuous streaming Directory providerRSS provider RSS 2.0 sample document MAS administration and security Access security setupUser accounts Security Auditor SAApplication Administrator AA Remote Desktop ProtocolLogon banners Ipsec configuration Security toolsCertificate management File system integrity and the fcheck toolService and configuration data backup Automatic and manual backupsService data Backup of configuration data Service data Content Store dataRestrictions System maintenance BackupsEvent logs MAS performance management MAS fault management Fault management architecturePolling management data Snmp management Supported MIBsSyslog Event logsSecurity Logs Field DescriptionAlarms MAS Console security logsField Description Generic Nortel MAS Console Counters & GaugesNortel MAS Console IP InterfacesSignaling Media SettingsAdvanced Settings LoggingConfiguration properties Dialog boxesTranslation properties Translation Properties dialog box SIP domain properties SIP Domain Properties dialog boxSIP account properties SIP Trusted Nodes properties SIP route propertiesModify SIP Route dialog box Audio codec configuration Video codec configuration Video Codec Configuration dialog box Digit relay configuration Users properties User Properties dialog box Terminology Differentiated Services Code Point Dual-tone multi-frequencyManagement Information Base Media Application ServerRedundant Array of Independent Disks Session Description ProtocolSession Information Protocol Simple Network Management ProtocolUniversal Resource Indicator User Datagram ProtocolVideo codec Voice Extensible Markup LanguagePage Fundamentals
Top Page Image Contents