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Zones
TANDBERG VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SERVER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
About Zones |
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A zone is a collection of endpoints, either all registered to a single system (e.g. VCS, gatekeeper or Border Controller), or of a certain type such as ENUM or DNS. The use of zones enables you to:
•use links to determine whether calls can be made between your local subzones and these other zones
•manage the bandwidth of calls between your local subzones and endpoints in other zones
•easily search for aliases that are not registered locally
•apply transforms to aliases before searching for them.
Your VCS allows you to configure up to 200 zones of 5 different types. It also has a
Neighbor Zone
A Neighbor zone could be a collection of endpoints registered to another system (e.g. VCS, gatekeeper, or Border Controller), or it could be a SIP device. The other system or SIP device is referred to as a neighbor. Neighbors can be part of your own enterprise network, part of a separate network, or even stand- alone systems.
You create a neighbor relationship with the other system by adding it as a neighbor zone on your local VCS. Once you have added it, you can:
•query the neighbor about its endpoints
•apply transforms to any requests before they are sent to the neighbor
•control the bandwidth used for calls between your local VCS and the neighbor zone.
In order to be able to traverse a firewall, the VCS must be neighbored with a traversal server (for example a TANDBERG VCS Expressway or a TANDBERG Border Controller).
In this situation your local VCS is a traversal client, so you neighbor with the traversal server by creating a traversal client zone on your local VCS. You then configure the client zone with details of the corresponding zone on the traversal server. (The traversal server must also be configured with details of the VCS client zone.)
Once you have neighbored with the traversal server you can:
•use the neighbor as a traversal server
•query the traversal server about its endpoints
•apply transforms to any queries before they are sent to the traversal server
•control the bandwidth used for calls between your local VCS and the traversal server.
A VCS Expressway is able to act as a traversal server, providing firewall traversal on behalf of traversal clients (for example, VCS Controls or gatekeepers).
In order to act as a traversal server, the VCS Expressway must have a special type of
Once you have neighbored with the traversal client you can:
•provide firewall traversal services to the traversal client
•query the traversal client about its endpoints
•apply transforms to any queries before they are sent to the traversal client
•control the bandwidth used for calls between your local VCS and the traversal client.
Neighbor zone relationships are
system to your VCS as a neighbor does not mean that
your VCS will also be a neighbor of that other system. In such a situation, your VCS will know about and be able to query the other system, but the other system will not know about or be able to query your VCS. However, inbound calls will be identified as coming from that neighbor if the source IP address matches.
Traversal
Introduction | Getting Started |
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| VCS | Zones and | Call |
| Bandwidth |
| Firewall |
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