Avaya Scopia Elite 6000 Administrator's Manual page 102

Glossary
Multi-Point
Multi-tenant
Multicast Streaming
NAT
NetSense
OVA
Over The Top
deployments
Packet Loss
December 2017
all network components, including servers like the MCU and/or Equinox
Media Server and endpoints like XT Series and other network devices like
network routers.
A multi-point conference has more than two participants.
Service provider, or multi-tenant, deployments enable one installation to
manage multiple organizations. All the organizations can reside as
tenants within a single service provider deployment. For example,
Equinox Management can manage a separate set of users for each
organization, separate local administrators, separate bandwidth policies
etc. all within a single multi-tenant installation.
Multicast streaming sends a videoconference to multiple viewers across a
range of addresses, reducing network traffic significantly. Avaya Equinox
multicasts to a single IP address, and streaming clients must tune in to
this IP address to view the meeting. Multicasts require that routers,
switches and other equipment know how to forward multicast traffic.
A NAT, or Network Address Translation device, translates external IP
addresses to internal addresses housed in a private network. This
enables a collection of devices like endpoints in a private network, each
with their own internal IP address, can be represented publicly by a
single, unique IP address. The NAT translates between public and private
addresses, enabling users toplace calls between public network users
and private network users.
NetSense is a proprietary Equinox Solution technology which optimizes
the video quality according to the available bandwidth to minimize packet
loss. As the available bandwidth of a connection varies depending on
data traffic, NetSense's sophisticated algorithm dynamically scans the
video stream, and then reduces or improves the video resolution to
maximize quality with the available bandwidth.
Open Virtualization Appliance. An OVA contains the virtual machine
description, disk images, and a manifest zipped into a single file. The
OVA follows the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
specification.
Over The Top deployments of Avaya Equinox Solution are independent of
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Avaya Aura . The deployments use port-based licensing.
Over The Top deployments are also called standalone deployments.
Packet loss occurs when some of the data transmitted from one endpoint
is not received by the other endpoint. This can be caused by narrow
bandwidth connections or unreliable signal reception on wireless
networks.
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