Border Control Point 7000 Series; What Is The Bcp 7000 Series - Nortel 5100 User Manual

Border Control Point 7000 Series

This section describes how to provision the Border Control Point (BCP) 7000
series, formerly known as the RTP Media Portal.
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What is the BCP 7000 series?

The BCP 7000 series is a media proxy device that provides various functions that
overcome a multitude of obstacles to the general deployment of next-generation
multimedia services. These functions enable
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"What is the BCP 7000 series?" on page 175
"Creating a Routability Group" on page 177
"Listing a Routability Group" on page 178
"Creating a Media Portal Group" on page 180
"Listing a Media Portal Group" on page 182
Note: There can be variations in the time it takes for provisioning
changes to take effect due to the nature of the data change. Things that are
considered real-time take effect immediately; other items do not need
immediate impact and are slowly updated.
the solution to extend its reach to include obscured endpoints (those clients
that reside behind a firewall, a Network Address, or a Port Translation device)
concealment of the media plane in the service network, thus obscuring the
service topology
subscriber privacy functions by masking the subscriber's true network
location in the media plane
support of vintage components in the next-generation service network (that is,
components that are not capable of understanding the latest complexities of
the next generation protocols)
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