Hello
This is giving me a real headache so please could someone help me.
We currently have an OCS 2007 r2 setup which is working fine with a standard server backend and an edge server (required due to the firewalls between central and schools). We are now looking at connecting this to external clients. We are not talking telephone or voip stuff we just want to Video Conference with SIP (and possibly h.323) clients on the web via IP mostly and sip names (I believe these are
ian@someone.com type names). All the guides I keep reading talk about linking to pbx's and pstn networks and I just cant get my head round it.
We have a codian 3500 gateway but have been told we need to replace this with a tandberg Video Communcaitons server due to the fact we are using R2, I do not understand why but the cost of the VCS box may leed us to going open source (or looking for cheaper options) so I need to get my head round what we need. For example do we need a mediation server and is there away of getting ocs 2007 R2 to working with our codian 3500 gateway. So the requirements wee need are.
1) for a school to load office communcaitor and put either an ip or name in that will connect them via sip (may require h.323 but would be happy to get sip working) to the external sip/h.323 client whatever that may be.
2) External Clients can enter
name@domain.com (we have the dns already up and running for sip) and conenct to an office communcaitor client in the school.
Can anyone help me with what I need to do to get this working with either the codian gateway or and open source gateway.
thanks in advance you would really help me out.
cheers
Ian
