Avaya IP Office 8.1 - Page 79

Product Description
IP Office 8.1
© 2012 AVAYA All rights reserved.
Page 79
Issue 26.k.- (16 August 2012)
Differences Between IP Office Server Edition Multi-Site Solution and IP Office
Legacy SCN Multi-Site Solution
Feature
IPO SCN
Server Edition Multi-
Site
Server Edition Comments
Topology
Freeform
Star, mesh, chain
SCN trunks anywhere.
Single or double star.
No additional SCN
trunks
Restricted topology allows
many optimizations.
Other H.323 trunk types still
allowed
Administration
Limited centralized (SCN
Manager)
Fully centralized
(Server Edition
Manager)
Consolidated mode for full
centralization. Non-
consolidated mode for
freeform per device
configuration
Licensing
Distributed
Central pool
All common licenses
centralized
Some still distributed
All administered centrally
SSL VPN
Separate independent
access
Integrated access via
Server Edition (SE)
Manager
Allows remote solution
management behind Services
VPN Gateway
O/G Call Routing
Complex, no default
assistance
Simplified
SE Manager and default
routes allow simpler O/G call
routing
I/C Call Routing
Complex, no default
assistance
Simplified
Common ICRs allow simpler
I/C call routing and resilience
Time
Freeform/complex
Simplified by default,
can still be freeform
Primary Server acts as
solution time server by
default
System directory
Freeform/complex
Simplified by default,
can still be freeform
Primary Server acts as
solution directory server by
default
Fax transport
IP Office T.38 fax transport
across SCN
G.711 fax transport
across SCN
No need to configure codec
sets to enforce; G.711 fax
transport used automatically
SIP Trunk Direct
Media to remote
device across SCN
None
Direct media supported
to remote H.323 and IP
DECT endpoints
Includes SIP Info and RFC
2833 support
Phone Resilience
Admin
Freeform/complex
Simplified
SE Manager admin allows
only Primary and/or
Secondary to act as phone
backup server
Hunt Groups
Freeform
Hunt groups only on
primary
Performance optimized for
VMPro location (also on
Primary)
Automatic resilience when
secondary present
Overcomes SoftConsole
limitations
SoftConsole
Up to 4 per IP Office
Up to 10 on Primary
Overcomes SoftConsole IP
connectivity and SCN
limitations
IP Phones with no
default user
Not resilient
Resilient
Allows hot desk phones to be
resilient
Add/remove node
Manual
Integrated via SE
Manager
Auto population of Multi-Site
links and common
configuration
Offline device
Cannot be managed
Managed via SE
Manager
Includes online/offline
synchronization