Transcript Avaya Aura Conferencing 6
Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing
Customer Presentation
Name: Date:
The Avaya Aura
®
Architecture
Unified Communications Applications Conferencing Messaging Video Collaboration, Email, Team Space & Social Networking Integration Avaya Agile Communication Environment (ACE) Voice/Video Services Presence Services Session Manager Application Integration System Manager Communications Infrastructure Office Devices Data Infrastructure Clients and Devices Avaya one-X ® UC Clients Video Endpoints
Avaya Aura Conferencing Solution overview
Avaya Aura Conferencing Avaya Aura® Conferencing Standard Edition Meeting Exchange Enterprise Edition
Unified & Integrated
Audio Conferencing Web Conferencing Video Conferencing* UC integration Avaya & 3 rd party
• Video availability planned later this year in Avaya Aura® Conferencing 6.0 Standard Edition
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Avaya Conferencing and Collaboration
#1 Global market share
Trusted
solution: over 24 years Industry leadership
Global Market Leadership
: 2010 Frost & Sullivan award
UC Magic Quadrant Leader
Leading
scalability
and
design
small to large, from simple to sophisticated choices: Scale from
Carrier class
customer premise solutions: Easily deployed on Enterprise
#1 Audio Conf Licenses
Open standards based
SIP
interoperability & media
24+ years leadership in audio conferencing
Choice
with UC client, Web Conferencing, Video: Increases usability, lowers barrier to entry, expands the solution
Multi-vendor PBX integrations
: via Avaya Aura®
ROI / productivity benefits
: additional applications & value Plus expanded utilization,
Avaya Aura Conferencing Editions
Enterprise Edition* Standard Edition • Single Virtualized Server •
500
ports Audio G711 •
500
ports Web Conf (opt) • Video MCU * • Near feature parity with Enterprise Edition • Partner enabled install •
4000
+ port Audio • Multiple codecs G711, + • Operator / Attended mode • Web Conference (opt) with (opt) Record / Playback • Advanced Redundancy • Multiple options for design / deployment Optional Integration (both Editions) • UC Client Integrations: Avaya, MSFT, IBM, Adobe
Functionality
• Video availability planned later this year in Avaya Aura™ Conferencing 6.0 Standard Edition
Avaya Conferencing Enterprise & Standard editions
Side by side comparison
UC Client Integrations
OneX Portal OneX Comm.
Adobe CP IBM ST Connect IBM ST Web Notes Sched OCS 2007 R2 LiveMeeting Outlook Sched
Operational Modes
Capacity Codec G.711
G.722, 726, 729, ILBC Video MCU* Reservation Res-less Attended UnAttended
4000+
Conferencing Applications
Avaya Web Conf.
AWC Rec / Play Web Portal CRS
1000
500
Design Deployment
Centralized Distributed Redundant DR
Applications Operations
• Video availability planned later this year in Avaya Aura® Conferencing 6.0 Standard Edition
500
Avaya Aura Conferencing Web Conferencing integration -
expands the solution
Avaya Web Conferencing Multimodal collaboration
Video Chat File sharing
Std Edition only
Unified roster Web / Voice Annotations Dial out audio Email Invitations Click to Join Application Share Desktop Share Presentation mode Voting / Polling ad hoc Record / Playback
Enterprise only
Avaya Aura Conferencing UC integrations
Audio Console Avaya Web Conferencing Lotus Notes Scheduling Sametime Connect Sametime Web Adobe Connect Outlook Scheduling OCS 2007 R2 Live Meeting 8
Avaya Desktop Video Device with Flare Experience
(Standard Edition Only) New Multi-modal conferencing • Available with Avaya Aura® Conferencing Standard Edition 6.0 SP1 • Combined audio and video bridging • Voice activated switching • H.263 Video • Supports CM administered endpoints
Avaya Aura® Conferencing Standard Edition
Avaya Aura Conferencing Standard Edition deployment
Simple single server centralized global conferencing Primary Site Conferencing CRS Web Portal Avaya Web Conferencing Optional Leverage on net calling, global access, centralized application, intelligent routing, reduced trunking, multi-vendor environments
Avaya Aura Conferencing Enterprise Edition -
deployment example
Distributed conferencing with Resiliency & off-site DR facilities Primary Site Conferencing Standby Site - B Conferencing Standby CRS Web Portal DR Site Avaya Web Conferencing AWC Playback AWC Record Conferencing Standby Avaya Web Conferencing Optional CRS Web Portal Leverage on net calling, global access, centralized application, intelligent routing, reduced trunking, multi-vendor environments
Avaya Aura
®
Conferencing Thank you…
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Avaya Aura™ Conferencing Enterprise deployments
Standalone:
3200 ports G711
Co-resident:
Application server & Media server
RTP SIP call control Pyramid:
4000 ports G711
Decoupled:
Application server & Media server
RTP SIP call control Bridge / Media CRS / Web Portal
opt Web Conferencing
Bridge / Media CRS / Web Portal
opt Web Conferencing
Enterprise Edition Resiliency options
“Standalone”
Conferencing
“Standalone - Resilient”
Conferencing Standby Adds: - Standby Conference server - 100% capacity redundancy - Automatic failover
“Pyramid”
Conferencing SW Media Servers
“Pyramid - Resilient”
Conferencing Standby SW Media Servers N+1 SW Media Server Adds: - Standby Conference server - 100% capacity redundancy - Automatic failover - N+1 SW Media Server - Load sharing
Avaya Aura Conferencing Summary
Conferencing and Collaboration applications… – – – Deployed on-premises Utilizing SIP call control Leveraging on-net dialing Highly scalable in Features and Capacity – Value to Users and the Business – Smooth growth and evolution Design and deployment choices – Tailor the solution to your needs Relevant to initiatives : – – – – – ROI and savings Avaya Aura® Unified Communications Productivity / agility Disaster Recovery / BC
Avaya Aura®
Avaya Aura Conferencing Core applications
• • CRS – Client Registration Server System admin app / SQL database: • Accounts / User profiles / Schedules Optional LDAP integration, System reporting • • Web Portal - Audio Console End user application: • Profile / conference settings, conference scheduling Moderator web-based conference control: • Active speaker, mute, dial-out, sub-conf., record, etc • • Bridge Talk* – Conference Management Used by leading Service Providers globally Full bridge supervision, Operator-Attendant application: • *0 Help, Q&A, Polling modes
* Enterprise Edition only
Avaya Aura Conferencing Comparison to external services
External services – A per-minute rate paid for every minute, every user – Increased costs from: • • • Increased minute usage Expanded number of users Advanced feature use • Unusual circumstances: M&A, emergency, snow, volcanic ash – Trend is to reduce costs, results in: • Trend to reduce total usage • Trend to less sophisticated usage – Network, trunking, facilities required to access external services • Most users are on-net and need to go off-net for external services Avaya Aura Conferencing – ROI savings from eliminated external charges, typically in months – No expense with: • • • Increased core usage Expanded user groups Advanced feature usage • Contingency, Business Continuity – – Assured & secure access High capacity absorbs spikes – – Sophisticated usages and new applications and can roll out without added costs • *0 Help, Attended, Recording, Playback, DR dial-out Leverage the corporate network • Most users are already “on-net” for telephony • Reduced trunking / facilitites
Avaya Aura Conferencing Compound TCO/ROI
Advantages beyond CSP avoided costs… Platform for growth – Accommodate organic & in-organic sources New usages & applications add value – Emergency response, Webinars, archived Trainings, proactive customer reach out – Foundational video MCU capability (Enterprise) augments existing video strategy Increased security of voice & data – Leverages corporate network, on-network calling Leverages Avaya Aura ® architecture – Centralized application, global access, reduced trunking, multi-vendor Leverages desktop UC clients from Avaya and 3 rd parties – Higher quality, enhanced experience – Increased agility and productivity
Avaya Aura Conferencing Design / deployment benefits Tailor the solution to fit your organization…
Centralized application global access SIP enables resiliency, redundancy and increased availability High capacity minimal footprint Distributed deployment options Low TCO centralized admin.
Tie into Business Continuity and Risk Management initiatives – Provide superior communications when you need them most
Avaya Aura Conferencing Feature scalability benefits
To the Business:
strategies – Enables progressive deployment Start simple Extend to Sophisticated • Reservation-less on-demand Emergency Ops, Training
To Existing users:
– New applications: Customer events, Webinars, Trainings at no incremental cost – Increased frequency, duration or expanded style
To New users:
– Expand core collaboration services to entire organization
To the Business:
Compounded ROI value with capabilities difficult to operationalize externally: – Emergency, notification, disaster response, project war-room conferencing – No incremental cost to the business
Usage & value Costs
Avaya Aura Conferencing Capacity / scalability benefits
High capacity:
4,000
ports max per instance – Largest Enterprise customer deployments to date:
15,000
and
12,000
ports
*
Enables
“ growth as a strategy ”
–
Start
off with smaller / simpler project –
Extend and evolve
initial deployments to increased size, scope, sophistication Absorb temporary usage spikes – Market conditions, competitors, weather, volcanic ash
Organic growth:
More use from existing users More users enabled with access Usage & value
In-organic growth:
M&A scenarios, Business Continuity Training, Notification, Etc …
* Capacity perspective:
Avaya by example uses approx. 2500 ports for day-to day conferencing operations in NA… over
125m minutes / year
usage
Avaya Aura Conferencing Customer benefits
Addresses universal Conferencing and collaboration needs – Enables worker productivity, agility – Core communications Provides ROI and compounded savings – New applications / new uses: Webinars, Trainings, DR, M&A Robust features / robust capacity – Broad applicability – Design & deployment options Web Conferencing option – Multi-modal collaboration – Standard Edition - single server footprint Available UC integrations – Enhanced experience / higher quality collaboration
Avaya Aura Conferencing Customer benefits
Consolidated portfolio – 2 editions – Shared common code base – Benefit of over 25-years conferencing heredity – Improves small / mid-market offer – Smooth upgrade path Standard Edition - virtualized single server – – System Platform, consistent, simple & green Partner enabled installation Enterprise Edition – Carrier class high capacity / design & resiliency options – Expanded feature / capability set Aligned with Avaya Aura ® - one of the largest users of the network – – SIP, immediate savings, on-net calling, trunking, global access, routing Multi-vendor environments
Avaya Aura
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System Platform
Conferencing 6.0 Standard Edition Template
System Platform Console Conf Bridge & Media Server Client Web Portal Web Reg / Audio Conf
Application Template
(CRS) Console Server Conf Manager DOM-0 XEN Hypervisor
S8800
HDD RAM NIC CPU
Avaya Aura® System Platform streamlines deployments / upgrades and provides consistent and secure remote access Same user capabilities, UC integrations across Conferencing Editions System Platform used for Conferencing Standard Edition as well as CRS, Web Portal, and Web Conferencing in Conferencing Enterprise Edition