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Data, voice, and media services are absolutely critical to the success of today's medium and large businesses. Leading enterprises often leverage the services running on their networks to achieve strategic advantage. They look for applications and services that can help them stay ahead of the competition.
Convedia Media Server in an Enterprise Deployment The diagram above shows a typical deployment scenario for a VoIP enterprise network. The media servers in such a network are controlled by softswitches and/or application servers, and provide all the media processing required by all the services in the network. The voice services that medium and large enterprises run on their networks are very similar to those offered by carriers' networks, and include Class 4 (routing-related) services, IP PBX, voicemail, business conferencing (scheduled, on-demand, and instant), and call center (automatic call distribution) services. All of these services make use of a media server for processing of audio streams, under the control of a softswitch or application server. Here are some examples of how each of the media server's capabilities—also called building blocks—are used by the services:
For enterprise networks that are still evolving from TDM to VoIP, the Service Offload and Trunk-Side deployment scenarios described under incumbent carriers are applicable. Note that multiple softswitches and application servers can control the same media server, and can do so, simultaneously, through any mix of control protocols such as MGCP, SIP, and Megaco. As well, the media servers can be deployed at the edge of the network, in the core of the network, or in a combination of the two, depending on factors such as traffic volume and the cost of carrying traffic across the network.
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