Avaya Communication Manager S8x00
Avaya Media Servers and Avaya Media Gateways work together with Avaya MultiVantage Software and Avaya IP Telephones to deliver the many advantages of IP telephony over your existing data network. Using a single network to handle both voice and data communication can save you time and money by simplifying network administration and eliminating the need to buy and maintain two separate networks. Sending voice calls over your data network can reduce public network long distance charges a particular advantage in international calling. In addition, because these hardware components adhere to widely accepted standards, they make it easier to deploy applications such as unified messaging and customer relationship management across a multi-vendor data network. Their compatibility with the most popular application program interfaces encourages third-party developers to create useful new applications.

Avaya Aura™ is the core communications platform supporting unified communications and contact center solutions for midsize to large enterprises. It extends Communication Manager and enables SIP-based session management with innovative and powerful capabilities. Leveraging a revolutionary SIP architecture and virtualization technology, Avaya Aura simplifies complex networks and reduces infrastructure costs. Employees at any location can be connected regardless of the infrastructure the endpoints reside on. Avaya Aura enables faster and easier deployment of communications capabilities such as voice, video, messaging, and presence. As a result, productivity and business agility can be increased. Branch, Standard, and Enterprise Editions offer simple per user licensing. Additional software and hardware are offered to support various levels of scalability and redundancy.

Tech Info
The Avaya line of media and communications servers delivers the full power of applications to large and midsize businesses. Designed for reliability in the most demanding communications environments, they feature industry-standard processors running the Linux operating system. Their scalable architecture gives businesses flexibility to deliver the communications capabilities they need now—with room to grow in the future.
• S8300 Server
• S8800 Server

S8300 Server
The S8300 Server with a G700, G450,G350 or G250 Media Gateway provides a flexible solution for growing companies to streamline voice and data operations over one networked infrastructure. It can be a standalone solution for a small business or a remote edge device for a larger enterprise network with 8 to 450 stations.The S8300 Server resides inside a G700, G450, G350 or G250 Media Gateway. It can be used as a standalone communication system or as a fully survivable remote gateway. The S8300 can be the primary controller for up to 50 remote G250, G350, G450 and G700 Media Gateways. As with the S8400, S8500 and S8700 series Servers, the S8300 supports the Linux operating system and it is powered by Communication Manager. It supports industry standard call control, quality of service, management functions, and IP, digital, and analog endpoints.

New with Release 5.0 is the ability to run both Communication Manager and SIP Enablement Services on the same S8300 Server. This provides a complete, all in one H.323, SIP and TDM solution for small to mid sized businesses and branch locations of larger businesses.

Benefits
Increases productivity by providing advanced headquarters functionality to remote locations.
Reduce communication down time with fully survivable gateways.
Reduce overall costs by leveraging existing communications infrastructure.
Save time and money by managing all sites from a single system interface.
Reduce the communication closet space required and the complexity of installation with an integrated messaging solution.

S8800 Server
The S8800 series common server is a processing platform that is ready to support Avaya Aura® communications solutions for midsized and large enterprises, today and in the future. The Avaya S8800 Server leverages Intel’s latest Xeon E5500 series (Nehalem) processor technology, and is available in both 1U and 2U form factors. Most Avaya applications will use the S8800 1U server chassis; some applications that require a large number of hard disk drives and/or plug-in cards will use the 2U version of Avaya S8800 Server.

Midsize enterprises want communications solutions to deliver performance, reliability and powerful capabilities. However, they are faced with the challenge of differentiating themselves from competitors, while operating with a limited IT staff.

Avaya enables midsize enterprises to achieve a ‘no compromise’ solution. The Avaya Aura™ solution for Midsize Enterprises delivers a single server deployment of Avaya Aura, making the solution more affordable, easier to deploy, simpler to manage and more energy efficient.

The Avaya Aura Solution for Midsize Enterprises also enables real-time communications applications to perform in a virtualized environment, with the same capabilities they have on dedicated servers. These products are brought together into a pre-defined “template” that can be installed, managed, and supported in a common way and on shared server hardware. This solution includes major enhancements for ease of installation and serviceability.

Engineered specifically for midsize businesses, it scales from 100 to 2,400 stations and 250 locations, providing voice, messaging, video, application enablement, software media services and full SIP capabilities. A high availability option offers business continuity through a redundant server shadowing all applications and administration.

The initial release uses Avaya Aura System Platform technology to virtualize these applications on a single server:

Gateways
Avaya offers a full range of media gateways designed to enhance the benefits of IP telephony for businesses of every size. They support multiple protocols, and offer a high degree of reliability, security, and performance at every price point.


G430 Media Gateway
The Avaya G430 Media Gateway provides a cost effective , scalable, and secure platform for delivery of Avaya Aura® Communication Manager-based IP telephony applications. It is targeted for small to midsize branch offices or medium sized standalone businesses. Like other Avaya GX50 series Media Gateways, it can be configured to extend Communication Manager features and applications to branch offices at the edge of the enterprise network.

G450 Media Gateway
Developed for mid- to large branch offices and medium sized standalone businesses, this gateway can be configured with an S8300 Server blade or S8500 Server to serve standalone or small campus environments. It consists of a 3U high rack-mountable chassis with a field-removable Supervisor Main Board Module, Power Supplies, Fan Tray, DSP resources and memory, along with eight Media Module slots to support T1/E1, ISDN-BRI, WAN interfaces, digital or analog telephones, and analog trunks.

G650 Media Gateway
Designed as the complementary gateway for S8500/S8700/10/20-based media servers, the G650 offers the features, scalability, and system uptime that enterprises require for mission-critical telephony. Its 8U high, 14-slot rack-mountable chassis can accommodate a range of analog, digital, ISDN, and IP (over the LAN) phone station configurations, with voice transport options over IP, analog, TDM, or ATM. Available dual redundant, load-sharing power supplies provide enhanced reliability.

G860 Media Gateway
Optimized for campuses and large contact centers, the G860 is a high-density trunking gateway that supports up to twelve DS3 interfaces in a single 5U chassis. It provides a money-saving solution for organizations that need to consolidate multiple DS1 interfaces, helping to reduce hardware costs, power bills and carrier charges. The GS860 uses SIP-based call control, and offers carrier-grade, NEBS III-compliant reliability, with redundant system elements and hot-swappable modules.