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Topic Last Modified: 2010-05-08

Effective planning for call admission control requires that you take into account the following:

Prerequisites for deploying call admission control.
Information required to deploy call admission control and configuration decisions that you must make so that all required information is available when you begin deployment.
Steps that are required to deploy call admission control and related components

Deployment Prerequisites for Call Admission Control

Before you deploy call admission control, you must already have deployed your Microsoft Communications Server 2010 internal servers, including either an Enterprise pool or a Standard Edition server.

Information Requirements for Call Admission Control

Planning for call admission control requires understanding what information is required to deploy it and related components, as well as making all decisions required to ensure that all deployment options are addressed. Understanding these requirements and making the required decisions is essential to having all the information that you need to start and complete deployment. The following table summarizes the information requirements for deploying call admission control.

Information Requirements for Call Admission Control Deployment

Information	Summary of Information Required	Documentation
Communications Server capabilities required by your organization	Capabilities to be supported by your organization Capabilities to be enabled for individual users	Planning for Call Admission Control
Topologies and components to be deployed	Required Communications Server and other components	Planning for Call Admission Control
System requirements	Hardware requirements Software requirements Collocation requirements	Preparing Your Environment
Infrastructure requirements	Infrastructure Requirements for Call Admission Control	Infrastructure Requirements for Call Admission Control
Network interface requirements	Internal and external interface information Routing information (including next hop)	Network Interface and Routing Requirements for External User Access
Deployment strategy	Deployment sequence Workgroup or domain Security Monitoring and auditing Hardware considerations	Deployment Best Practices for Call Admission Control
Deployment process	Prerequisites Information requirements Process and procedures	This section