Message Networking is designed to
provide networking capabilities for Avaya Messaging
products, such as the Avaya Modular Messaging system,
the embedded base of Avaya Octel® and INTUITY® AUDIX®
messaging products, as well as non-Avaya messaging
systems.
This turnkey server-based solution that
connects individual voice or multimedia messaging
systems. As with the Avaya Interchange (which the
Message Networking solution replaces as the Avaya
networking solution going forward) using a
"store-and-forward" or "hub" approach to networking, the
Message Networking solution receives messages, performs
the necessary protocol conversions, and delivers the
message to one or multiple recipients on one or multiple
messaging systems. The hub-and-spoke network topology,
in which each messaging system is directly linked
through the Message Networking solution to every other
messaging system, is simpler to manage and easier to
expand than a conventional point-to-point topology.
Now, each messaging system requires only
a single connection to the Message Networking solution,
and new systems can be added easily without affecting
existing servers. All message routing, protocol
conversions, administrative functions, and management
capabilities reside on the Message Networking solution,
so network connections are less costly and easier to
manage.
Benefits
- Protects investments in existing
Messaging systems.
- Simplifies network administration,
management and expansion.
- Can reduce long-distance costs.
- Can reduce management/administration
costs.
Features
Seamless Networked
Messaging
The Message Networking solution
enables enterprise-wide messaging that helps streamline
costs and makes employees more productive.
Sending voice mail messages can replace many
costly and time-consuming long-distance calls between
locations as employees can easily communicate with
others regardless of location or time zone. With a
single command, users can also inexpensively send voice,
fax, text, and attachments to multiple offices or
individuals worldwide by allowing messages to be sent
over existing corporate-wide TCP/IP Wide Area Network
(WAN) facilities.
Centralized Network
Management
Enterprises can perform most
administrative, networking, and reporting tasks through
an easy-to-use PC-based system that provides access to
their entire messaging network.
Centrally
managing and administering the entire Messaging system
network can reduce costs and allow for faster updates to
the network. Improves communications across the entire
enterprise, regardless of location or messaging system
type.
Enterprise
Lists
Enables users to create lists to all
subscribers within the network through a variety of
methods (including dynamic creation of lists such as
location, organization, etc.) to broadcast messages
enterprise-wide.
Enhances communications across
the enterprise, improving information sharing, including
timely dissemination of information. The use of
Enterprise Lists can also provide significant costs
savings when sending messages over the corporate wide
area network, as opposed to using the PSTN.
Web Browser-Based
Administration
Supports web browser-based
administration similar to that of Avaya INTUITY™ AUDIX®
LX and supports access to equivalent Avaya Interchange
Release 5.4 menus, screens, and reports, including:
Networking Administration,System Administration,Customer
Services/Administration.
Simplifies the
Messaging system network administration, reducing the
time it takes to make adds, moves, changes to the
end-point messaging systems.
Enterprise Directory
Management
The directory-view types include
the entire directory, only those subscribers that have
messaged to each other, portions of the directory (i.e.
communities of interest), or none. This still allows
messaging, but does not support any ASCII name
addressing or voice name confirmation.
Can
reduce the amount of administration time required to
maintain and manage enterprise directories, ensuring
that messages can be quickly addressed and sent.
Dial Plan
Mapping
Supports message delivery between
locations with different addressing schemes, simplifying
how users send messages to each other.
Users
dial a previously-defined, fixed number of digits to
address their message, regardless of the destination
server, and Message Networking automatically converts
the address to the proper number of digits for the
destination server and delivers the message. This
feature helps make it easier for enterprise associates
to use message networking, improving communications and
businesses processes.
Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) Interface
Release 2.0
supports an LDAP interface (secured by password) that
will allow external, third-party vendors to add, change,
delete, and query Enterprise Lists and the entries in
those lists. It will also allow the query of Enterprise
List System Parameters (including system-wide subscriber
permissions).
Allows customers or third-party
vendors to write applications to streamline
administration, which might include subscriber
administration of lists, synchronization between an
enterprise's personnel direction and the E-List
application.
Enterprise
Addressing
Employees can address messages to
anyone else in the enterprise simply by using the
subscriber's voice message network address, even if the
subscriber name is not downloaded in the remote
end-point server's Directory View. The numbering scheme
(or dial plan) should be uniform throughout the company,
of a fixed length, and can be between 3 and 10 digits in
length. Ten digits are recommended to allow for future
growth and eliminate overlapping address ranges.
Allows associates to easily address messages to
key colleagues, helping to ensure better communication
throughout the enterprise.
Multiple Speech Compression
Technique Support
Translates different
message transmission protocols and transcodes the
various speech compression techniques, so businesses can
network almost any messaging system they have in their
enterprises. Because all transmission protocol
translations are performed within the Message Networking
solution, there's no need to reconfigure each individual
end-point server or equip them with translation
software.
Helps to improve communications across
the entire enterprise, as well as any of the millions of
email users reachable via the Internet.
Multiple Protocol
Support
Supports: TCP/IP digital protocols
(for INTUITY™ AUDIX® server, Octel® 200SX/200/300
messaging servers, Octel 250SX/250/350 message servers,
and non-Avaya messaging servers that are VPIM
compatible), Octel® analog networking, AMIS-analog
networking and SMTP/MIME (for Modular Messaging, Unified
Messenger and non-Avaya Messaging Systems).
Provides investment protection benefits by
allowing existing Avaya and multi-vendor messaging
systems to be networked together. That means virtually
any voice or multimedia messaging systems can be easily
networked via the Message Networking solution. There is
no need to remove or replace existing systems that are
compatible with the Avaya proprietary protocols or
industry-standard protocols (including SMTP-MIME or
VPIM). |