About This Documentation; Overview; Audience; Using This Documentation - Avaya S8700 Installation Instructions Manual

About This Documentation

Overview

This documentation, Installing the Avaya S8700 Media Server with Avaya G650 Media Gateway, 555-
245-109, provides procedures for installing an S8700 Media Server, media gateways, backplane, and
endpoints. While the focus of this document is on the S8700 configured with a G650 Media Gateway, the
document also describes installation of the S8700 with other media gateways.

Audience

This documentation is for the following audiences:
•
Trained field installation and maintenance personnel
•
Technical support personnel
•
Authorized Business Partners]

Using this documentation

Use this documentation as a guide to install and administer the S8700 Media Server. For information
about a particular task, use the index or table of contents to locate the page number where the information
is described.
For an overview of the installation process, see
process.
Read the Pre-installation setup on page 24
prior to beginning the procedures described in this documentation. One step you normally complete
before going to the customer site is
For initial installation of hardware, see
conjunction with Getting Started with the Avaya S8700 Media Server with the Avaya G650 Media
Gateway, 555-245-703, a quick reference guide.
Use the remaining sections of the document in the sequence they are presented. If certain components are
not to be installed, skip the procedures for those components. You install and configure the components
of the two media servers using information in the following sections:
•
Connecting the USB modems on page 29
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Configuring and connecting the hardware in the rack on page 30
•
Configuring the media server
•
Connecting duplication cables
•
Configuring a second media server
Installing the Avaya S8700 Media Server with an Avaya G650 Media Gateway
December 2003
High level overview of installation process on page 26
section first. This section lists all tasks that must be complete
Downloading license and Avaya authentication files on page
Mounting hardware in the rack on page
on page 34
on page 46
on page 46
About This Documentation
Overview
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