Overview

The Avaya S8700 Media Server with the Avaya G650 Media Gateway combines a media server for control and media gateways for managing the bearer traffic. The control network can be either dedicated (over a private network) or nondedicated (over the customer's public network).

The voice bearer network is available in two configurations:

• Voice bearer over IP (IP-Connect): An all-IP configuration.
• Voice bearer over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Center Stage Switch (CSS) (Multi-Connect): In this configuration the bearer paths and control paths are separate. The control information for port networks travels over either a dedicated, through the Ethernet, switch (private LAN) or non-dedicated (over customer LAN) control network and terminates on the S8700 Media Server at one end and an IPSI circuit pack on the other.