The following components provide the Avaya Aura® core communications services:
Avaya Aura® Communication Manager. The open, highly-reliable and extensible IP telephony foundation on which Avaya delivers intelligent communications to large and small enterprises.
Avaya Aura® SIP Enablement Services. Delivers rich communications, collaboration, mobility, and application integration capabilities to the enterprise.
Avaya Aura® Messaging. A part of the Avaya Aura® architecture, but Messaging can also be used in other environments. For more information, see Avaya Aura Messaging overview.
Avaya Aura® Session Manager. A SIP routing and integration tool and the core component of the Avaya Aura® solution. Session Manager integrates the SIP entities across the entire enterprise network within a company. Session Manager offers a new perspective on enterprise communication where individual locations are no longer managed as separate units within the enterprise. Each location, branch, and application is viewed and managed as part of the overall enterprise.
Avaya Aura® System Manager. A product that takes a solution-level approach to network administration. IT departments can use System Manager to incorporate new components and applications under a common management umbrella over time, managing all the elements of Avaya Aura® together as a system.
System Manager centralizes provisioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting to simplify and reduce management complexity and solution servicing. System Manager provides a common management framework that reduces the complexity of operations for distributed multisite networks with multiple control points inherent in SIP. System Manager also increases the value of convergence through tight integration with the enterprise IT infrastructure.
Avaya Aura® System Platform. A product that consolidates applications in a single server, decreasing customer's hardware footprint, cooling and energy costs. Because of this consolidation, customers may need fewer servers for the same configuration than with other competing products.
System Platform is a generic virtual server software platform that provides a common set of features and services. This set of features and services allows preinstalled and configured virtual applications, called solution templates, to reside on a single physical server.
Secure Access Link (SAL) to handle alarming and remote access
A consistent upgrade method for all patches and products in the solution template
Security that conforms to Avaya product security standards
A Web License Manager (WebLM) server to manage product licenses
A Network Time Protocol (NTP) clock synchronized to a customer-provided NTP server
All Messaging systems are installed on System Platform using a template. Avaya offers product-specific templates to install different products on System Platform. A template is a definition of a set of one or more applications to be installed on System Platform.
For additional documentation, see the Avaya support website at http://support.avaya.com.