Polycom 7000 manual About Site Topology

Site Topology

This section describes the following Polycom® RealPresence® Distributed Media Application™ (DMA®)

7000 site topology configuration topics:

●About Site Topology

●Sites

●Site Links

●Site-to-Site Exclusions

●Territories

●Network Clouds

●Bandwidth Management

●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 RealPresence DMA cluster is responsible. Territories serve multiple purposes in a Polycom RealPresence DMA system deployment. See Territories.

Note: Network topology and site topology can differ

Site topology information provides a logical model representation of a network topology, not necessarily a fully accurate literal representation of a full network.

A freshly installed RealPresence DMA system provides a default site topology with sites, subnets, and a site link that allow for endpoint registration and call routing (both multipoint and point-to-point).

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