2Installing Hardware for the G700 Media Gateway and S8300 Media Server
Getting Started
70 Installation and Upgrades for G700 and S8300
December 2003
Getting Started
This section describes the components of an Avaya G700 Media Gateway and an Avaya S8300 Media
Server.

G700 Media Gateway

The main elements of a G700 Media Gateway are: (1) the G700 chassis and processors, (2) the media
modules, and (3) the Avaya Data Expansion Modules.
Figure 1: G700 Media Gateway with an S8300 Media Server: Front View
G700 Media Gateway Chassis and Processors
The G700 Media Gateway chassis is a 19-inch, 2u rack-mountable unit modeled after the Avaya P330
stackable switching products. A partial list of technical specifications of the G700 appears in Appendix
A, “Technical Information”.
The G700 has three internal processors:
P330 stack processor (also known as Layer 2 switching processor)
Media gateway processor (MGP)
Voice over IP (VoIP) processor
NOTE:
An AC/DC version of the G700 will be available 1st-Quarter 2004.
Figure notes
1Media module slot #1 (V1)
2S8300 services port (used with cross-over
ethernet cable)
3S8300 USB ports
4Expansion module slot
510/100 Base-T Ethernet ports (ext1, ext2)
6media module slot #2 (V2)
7Media module slot #3 (V3)
8Media module slot #4 (V4)
9Console interface