Polycom 3725-76302-001LI manual About Site Topology

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Site Topology

This chapter describes the following Polycom® Distributed Media

Application™ (DMA™) 7000 site topology configuration topics:

•About Site Topology

•Sites

•Site Links

•Site-to-Site Exclusions

•Territories

•Network Clouds

•Site Topology Configuration Procedures

About Site Topology

Site topology information logically describes your network and its interfaces to other networks, including the following elements:

•Site — A local area network (LAN) that generally corresponds with a geographic location such as an office or plant. A site contains one or more network subnets, so a device’s IP address identifies the site to which it belongs.

•Network cloud — A Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network cloud defined in the site topology. An MPLS network is a private network that links multiple locations and uses label switching to tag packets with origin, destination, and quality of service (QOS) information.

•Site link — A network connection between two sites or between a site and an MPLS network cloud.

•Site-to-site exclusion — A site-to-site connection that the site topology doesn’t permit a voice or video call to use.

•Territory — A collection of one or more sites for which a Polycom DMA cluster is responsible. Territories serve multiple purposes in a Polycom DMA system deployment. See “Territories” on page 302.

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