Avaya Aura Conferencing

Avaya Aura Conferencing

Integrated Audio, Web, and Video Conferencing: Easy on Users, Budgets, and IT

  • Put collaboration tools in all your users' hands, no matter which smart phones, desktops, or tablets they’re using. With Avaya Aura® Conferencing you get audio, web, and even video conferencing, so you can call a meeting and everyone can connect
  • Let your users focus on the meeting purpose and content, instead of logistics. Calendar integration enables people to schedule and join meetings easily. Participants know and control what's happening in the conference thanks to the easy-to-use Avaya interface
  • Save money by bringing your conferencing in-house. You’ll save on service provider and network trunking fees. And you could also significantly reduce WAN usage costs

Deployment Scenarios

  • Single Server

    All solution components on a single server

  • Single Campus

    Avaya Aura Conferencing located in a central data center, media servers on separate servers

  • Multiple Campus

    Avaya Aura Conferencing split between active/standby cores in two geographically separate data centers using an L2 Vlan

  • Multiple Avaya aura Conferencing deployment

    Large deployment where Avaya Aura Conferencing is on multiple application servers.

Components

Avaya Aura Conferencing consists of the following components:

  • Application Servers: hosts the conference application and handles SIP signaling from clients
  • Media Server: handles audio including voice mixing
  • Web Collaboration Server: provides content sharing to Avaya clients
  • Document Conversion Server: converts PowerPoint, PDF and other document types into formats compatible with Web collaboration
  • Flash Media Gateway: An optional server to provide audio and video capability to the Collaboration Agent, the Web browser interface
  • Recording Server: An optional server to enable the recording feature
  • Plug-ins to Desktop Applications: Plug-ins for desktop applications enable users to invite and join conferences from within Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Lync

System Requirements

Avaya Aura Conferencing requires:

  • Avaya Aura 6.2 (including Session Manager, System Manager and Communications Manager)
  • Or Avaya Communication Server 1000 7.5 or 7.6 (including Session Manager 6.2 and System Manager 6.2)