Nortel Networks NN43001-121 manual Office Communicator, Documentation References

32Converged Office component overview

Hardware Load Balancers deliver load distribution to avoid a single point of failure. Other benefits include increased performance and added redundancy. The CS 1000 uses Load Balancers for the signaling path of VoIP calls and Remote Call Control.

A Load Balancer is not required if you deploy:

•a Standard Edition server

•a single Enterprise Edition Front End server

A load balancer is required if you deploy:

•multiple OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition Front End servers

•an Array of Edge Servers

•an Array of Directors in OCS 2007

Microsoft recommends deploying a hardware load balancer for arrays of Office Communications Server 2007, Edge Servers, and Directors but it is not a requirement. Office Communications Server 2007 does not support the use of Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancer in production or lab deployments. The CS 1000 is only concerned with the load balancers for the signaling path for VoIP and Remote Call Control (RCC).

Office Communicator 2007

For detailed information about using Office Communicator 2007 and its components, see Converged Office User Guide — Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (NN43001-123).

Documentation References

A list of Nortel and Microsoft documentation is available for reference from the following Web sites.

•You can download Nortel documentation from the Nortel technical documentation Web site at www.nortel.com.

•Download Microsoft technical documentation from the Download Center at www.microsoft.com.

The following Nortel technical documents are relevant to Nortel Converged Office.

Nortel Communication Server 1000

Nortel Converged Office Fundamentals — Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

NN43001-121 01.03 Standard

Release 5.0 30 April 2008

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