Network Configurations

The Avaya G700 Media Gateway is a highly flexible, scalable communications solution that can be incorporated in customer networks in a variety of ways. Paired with an Avaya switch and equipped with an Avaya S8300 Media Server, it can serve as a standalone gateway within a small or medium sized office. Linked to several switches, it may serve as a gateway in a large branch office networked through a WAN to a central location where the communications server resides on an S8300.

There are two general types of network configurations for the G700. In the first, Avaya MultiVantage^TM, resides on an External Media Server (EMS) -- such as an Avaya S8700 Media Server -- and provides call processing and network control functions, while G700s provide connectivity to lines and trunks. If AUDIX Multimedia Messaging is required, it is located with the main server.

In the second configuration, an S8300 Media Server with Avaya MultiVantage^TM software, installed in a G700 Media Gateway, provides call control for the network, which may incorporate other G700s without S8300s.

In both configurations, a G700 may be equipped with an S8300 configured as an LSP (Local Survivable Processor) with Avaya MultiVantage^TM. The LSP will take over call control if connection to the main server is lost.