Cisco Systems 5.x manual GL-2

Glossary

Bridge Networking A Cisco Unity networking option. Allows messaging between Cisco Unity and Avaya Octel or Interchange systems on an Octel analog network by using the Cisco Unity Bridge. The Bridge, which acts as a networking gateway, must be installed on a separate and dedicated platform. Messaging between Cisco Unity and the Bridge is done by using SMTP over the Internet or any TCP/IP network. Messaging between the Octel servers and the Bridge is done by using the Octel analog networking protocol. Cisco Unity and the Octel systems maintain separate voice mail directories. However, the Bridge supports NameNet, which is an Octel Networking feature that allows for the propagation of text and voice names among nodes on the analog Octel network. NameNet allows subscribers to address messages to people at other nodes by spelling the recipient name, and to get voice name confirmation when addressing a message to someone on another node.

Bridge subscriber

bridgehead server

A representation in Cisco Unity of subscribers on an Avaya Octel messaging system. Bridge subscribers are created in Cisco Unity to enable Cisco Unity subscribers to find them in the directory and send messages as they would to any other subscriber. Bridge subscribers are associated with a delivery location and are stored as contacts in Active Directory. Mailbox greetings and voice names can be individually recorded for each Bridge subscriber. Messages that are sent to a Bridge subscriber are sent through the Cisco Unity Bridge server to the applicable mailbox on the Octel system. Bridge subscribers do not have messages stored locally. Their messages are stored on the Octel messaging system.

Bridge subscribers are automatically created when the Bridge creates usage-based directory entries for Octel users (in support of NameNet). You can also create Bridge subscribers manually in Cisco Unity or create permanent directory entries on the Bridge server, which results in the automatic creation of Bridge subscribers. Bridge subscribers that are automatically created are referred to “auto-created Bridge subscribers.”

A Cisco Unity networking term. In installations with multiple Cisco Unity servers networked together, only one Cisco Unity server in the network needs to be configured for AMIS, Bridge, or VPIM networking— the server acts as the “bridgehead” server for the other Cisco Unity servers in the network.

C

contact	An Active Directory object that represents a subscriber who does not have an Active Directory logon
	account or an Exchange mailbox.

D

delivery location A Cisco Unity object created on the local Cisco Unity server that corresponds to a remote voice messaging system. A delivery location contains the information that Cisco Unity needs for exchanging messages with the remote voice messaging system.

	Networking Guide for Cisco Unity Release 5.x (With Microsoft Exchange)
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