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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Consolidated edge server and interoute one?

Section: Enterprise Voice, Mediation Server

Today i've got an very good question about how to connect to interoute through OCS and how to configure the IP address etc.

Questions are:

1. Do you need a GW between your Mediation server and Interoute?

2. Have you ever configured a consolidated edge server – I am trying to do this with the least amount of kit – so what to put Access Edge /AV edge and Web conferencing on it – I have 3 separate IP addresses for the external interface but need to know if I can put all three on one NIC or if it is better to put the AV edge on one nic and the other two on the other.

Answers are:

1.No – the connection is direct between the mediation server and the Interoute One server

2. Our lab – (which was used as a pilot for 30 users) was on a consolidated edge server, with one public nic which worked fine.

For the office installation we have split the roles across two servers

  • 1/ A/V proxy
  • 2/ all other edge roles

This seems to be working ok for our 800 user installation – it was done this way for scalability and network infrastructure reasons (the A/V needing a non-natted public address). In all cases the machines involved had two nics – inside and outside….

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