TANDBERG D14049.01 Introduction, Main Product Features, Standard Features, Optional Features

Introduction

TANDBERG VIDEO COMMUNICATION SERVER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

About the TANDBERG Video Communication Server About this Administrator Guide

The TANDBERG Video Communication Server (VCS) is a key component of your video communications network. It allows you to manage endpoint registrations and calls, and control the bandwidth being used within your network. The VCS also offers advanced call policy that allows you to accept, reject and re-route calls, and can optionally include TANDBERG’s FindMe™, which allows users to have a single alias on which they can be contacted regardless of location,

The VCS forms part of TANDBERG’s Expressway™ firewall traversal solution, allowing you to securely connect to other video networks and equipment from your secured private network.

The VCS also acts as a gateway between SIP and H.323 protocols, and between IPv4 and IPv6, allowing you to make the most use of your existing video communications investment.

Main Product Features

This Administrator Guide is provided to help you make the best use of your TANDBERG VCS.

Your approach to this documentation depends on what you want to do and how much you already know.

The Administrator Guide has been divided into several sections, each providing different information. In some places information is duplicated between sections to let you have all the relevant information in one place.

This document does not have an index - this is intentional. If the Table of Contents does not direct you to the information you need, you can use the Find function in Adobe Reader to search the text for keywords.

Note that the Administrator Guide describes a fully equipped version. Your version may not have all the described extensions installed.

Standard Features

•H.323 gatekeeper

•SIP Proxy/Registrar

•SIP and H.323 support, including SIP/H.323 gatewaying for locally registered endpoints

•IPv4 and IPv6 support, including IPv4/IPv6 gatewaying

•Bandwidth management on both a per-call and a total usage basis, configurable separately for calls within the local subzones and to neighboring systems and zones

•Automatic downspeeding option for calls that exceed the available bandwidth

•URI and ENUM dialing via DNS, enabling global connectivity

•Up to 2500 registrations

•Up to 500 non-traversal calls

•Up to 100 traversal calls

•Up to 200 neighboring zones

•Flexible zone configuration with prefix, suffix and regex support

•Can function as a stand-alone VCS or be neighbored with other systems such as VCSs, Border Controllers, gatekeepers and SIP proxies

•Supports up to 5 Alternate VCSs for redundancy purposes

•Optional endpoint authentication

•Control over which endpoints are allowed to register

•Administrator Policy including support for CPL

•Embedded setup wizard via a serial port for initial configuration

•System administration via a web interface or RS-232, Telnet, SSH, and HTTPS

•Can be managed with TANDBERG Management Suite 11.8 or newer

Optional Features

•Firewall traversal server functionality, allowing secure traversal of any firewall or NAT

•Registration of traversal-enabled endpoints

•STUN Discovery and STUN Relay services

•User Policy (TANDBERG FindMe™)

•SIP/H.323 gatewaying for non-registered endpoints

Our main objective with this Guide is to address your goals and needs. Please let us know how well we succeeded!

In this Administrator Guide, instructions for performing a task via the web interface are shown in the format:

• Menu option1 > Menu option2

followed by the Name of the page that you will be taken to. In most cases the page will be shown adjacent, with callouts describing each of the configurable options.

In this Administrator Guide, instructions for performing a task using the command line interface are shown in the format:

•xConfiguration CommandName

The command is hyperlinked to the Command Reference table at the back of this Guide; clicking on the hyperlink will take you to the appropriate section of the table showing all the available sub-commands and parameters.

Typing the command into the CLI without any parameters will return a full list of parameters available for that command.

Typing a ? after the command will return information about the purpose of that command or group of commands.

Introduction	Getting	System	System	H.323 & SIP	Registration	Zones and	Call
	Started	Overview	Configuration	Configuration	Control	Neighbors	Processing
D 14049.01					12
07.2007

Firewall	Bandwidth	Maintenance	Appendices
Traversal	Control