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Topic Last Modified: 2010-05-08

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

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

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