Extended Meet Me Conference 1

[TriniTech87]

Hi guys

How can I determine if I need a server or licenses for this feature ie Extended Meet Me Conference I'm running version 16.
Additionally
Number of Expanded meet me conference ports = 0

 

[kyle555]

Expanded meet me conferencing needs a server. You can do up to 6 party bridges in CM - that's meet-me conferencing.

More than that, you need something else.

 

[TriniTech87]

Ok if you have system manager, how can you Determine if you have this server or not ?

 

[kyle555]

You probably don't. There was Avaya Meeting Exchange that was a server for scheduling conferences - that could be one. There's Aura Conferencing, which is another platform for it, and before that there was Expanded Meet Me Conferencing where you had a EMMC server - which was just a CM with a special patch that you built a SIP trunk to and it let you do the built in CM meet me bridges but for more than 6 people. It might still be around, but I haven't heard of it in years. Long story short, you should have IPs and access information for a conferencing server if you have one. The EMMC conference ports you're referring to are only used for that one type of conferencing - not meeting exchange or aura conferencing.

 

[TriniTech87]

I do have the Aura platform however I don't have Aura Conferencing ( does this Aura Conferencing handle POTS or it it just IP based conferencing)
I basically needed to find a solution that would allow more that 6 people to call into a conference bridge, that does not involve IP or calls over the WEB. It's more of a PSTN service.
Reason being our company already has Scopia for the WEB based calls

 

[kyle555]

They're all IP-based at this point. If you want to put a PBX with a dozen PRIs in front of it, then it can be mostly TDM.

So, the old stuff - EMMC and MX were port based -you licensed 100 ports and could use em however you want.

Aura Conferencing is a per-user model. With Avaya's suite licensing, you don't buy "a pbx phone" or "a voicemail box" so much anymore. You buy an "Aura Foundation user" with a PBX phone license, mailbox, presence server, sip session, etc. Collaboration users would include a conference bridge on Aura Conferencing. So, if you've bought anything it's licensing and right to use on a virtual machine you deploy.

IP Office can be a cheap conference bridge

 

[TriniTech87]

Avaya Aura Conferencing seems like what we need to get (just need to the licenses) however I just would like to know if can handle (Users calling from POTS & Cell Phones into the bridge ) to connect to a conference.
Because as mentioned before we have Scopia to handle Video calls

 

[kyle555]

Oh yeah, AAC can do that - it SIP trunks to Session Manager. If you point DIDs from CM with PRIs on it or SIP trunks, sure anyone can call.

It does like a webex too, you have a web page you can manage the call from, share a screen, and it does video too - point to point active speaker only, not Scopia's hollywood squares - though the two can be integrated if you really want.

Depending on what your needs are, a small business system like IP Office can be tweaked into a very cheap and relatively simple audio-only conference bridge.

To have AAC, you'd have to have purchased more expensive Aura Collaboration licenses that include a bit of everything, and unless they wanted it explicitly, nobody would spend 25 or 30 or 50% more per user.

 

[TriniTech87]

Ok nice if we are considering cost and we decide to go with IP office can it be integrated seamlessly to Aura CM
I'm assuming the IP office well sit as an endpoint on the CM

 

[kyle555]

Seamlessly, no. And you'd build trunks to it.
Not like AAC is any more seamless. Believe me, there's gonna be seams no matter how you slice it.

 

[TriniTech87]

And cost the which option would be cheaper the IP office or AAC.

ps that's a major factor btw my name is Kyle also bro (I'm assuming you are based in Manhattan)

 

[kyle555]

IPO.

Hey, us Kyle's ain't schmucks! And no, not Manhattan. Little north of there.

 

[TriniTech87]

Ok nice

Well I will do my homework and present a report to the guys who buy the stuff (aka) the bosses.
Quick question if we buy the IP office can it work with Aura and provide DSP,Trunks etc and other services if we let's say use it at a smaller location for our company (maybe 100) people

 

[kyle555]

Yup to all of the above. There's also a way to make it a cheaper LSP and use it for branch failover and just for local trunking while all the sets stuff is processed by a core CM. Might not be worth the setup trouble for only 1 branch, but if you need cheap survivability at a bunch of branches, it brings cost way down than using 430s/450s.

 

[TriniTech87]

Sweet
on avg how many calls can be merged into IP office's conferencing feature (more than Aura's) 6 ?

 

[kyle555]

From their knowledge base:

The system supports 128 conferencing channels on the IP500 V2, allowing multiple conferences of any size from 3 to 64 parties. The system support 42 3-party conferences, 2 64-party conferences or any combination in between.