IP Network Services
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Multiple Network Services
Media, signaling and management networks can be physically separated on the Collaboration Server
system to provide enhanced security. This addresses the requirement in an organization that different
groups of participants be supported on different networks. For example, some participants may be internal
to the organization while others are external.
Up to three media and signaling networks can be defined for the RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s
for each media and signaling network connected to the Collaboration Server.
The Management Network is logically and physically separated from the media and signaling networks.
There can be one Management Network defined per Collaboration Server system.
Each conference on the Collaboration Server can host participants from the different IP Network networks
simultaneously.
Guidelines
●Multiple Services system mode is a purchasable option and it is enabled in the MCU license.
●Multiple Services system mode is enabled when the system configuration flag
MULTIPLE_SERVICES is added and set to YES.
●On the RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s, LAN redundancy cannot be enabled in parallel to
Multiple Networks and the LAN_REDUNDANCY flag must be set to NO when the Multiple Networks
option is enabled.
●Participants on different networks can connect to the same conference with full audio, video and
content capabilities.
●Traffic on one network does not influence or affect the traffic on other networks connected to the same
MCU. If one network fails, it will not affect the traffic in the other connected networks.
●The Signaling Host IP Address and the Media IP Address cannot be different.
●Maximum number of services that can be defined per Collaboration Server platform:
Maximum Number of Network Services
●A DNS server can be specified for each IP Network Service and for the Collaboration Server
Management Network Service.
In the Network Services that do not include the DNS server, use the IP addresses of the various
devices to define them in the Network Services.
●Participants are associated with a Network Service and use it resources as follows:
Dial-in participants - according to the network used to place the call and connect to the
Collaboration Server.
Dial-out participant - according to the Network Service selected during the participant properties
definition or during conference definition, according to the Network Service selected as default.
Multiple Network Services are applicable to the RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s only.