The Mediation Server is a server role necessary to bridge the PSTN traffic to and from the media gateway to the Office Communications Server network. Because some existing media gateways do not currently support the SIP protocol over TCP and optimized media codecs used by Office Communications Server 2007, the Mediation Server is needed to translate the RTAudio and RTVideo codecs to the G.711 codec commonly used by media gateways. In addition to performing codec translation, the Mediation Server performs reverse number lookups (RNL) to resolve phone numbers from incoming calls arriving from the media gateway to the corresponding SIP URI. After phone numbers are resolved into SIP URIs, the Mediation Server routes the call to the user's home server.
Table 2-9 lists the hardware requirements for the Mediation Server role.
To get the most up-to-date information about the Media Server role, refer to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/communicationsserver/evaluate/sysreqs/ocs-ee.mspx#EBG.
Table 2-9. Hardware and Software Requirements for Mediation Server
Component | Requirement |
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Computer and processor | Dual processor, dual core with 3.0-GHz or faster processor for up to 120 concurrent calls |
Memory | 2 GB or more of RAM recommended |
Cache | 1-MB L2 per core recommended |
Hard disk | 1 SCSI hard drive with 36 GB of available hard disk space recommended |
Network | 2 1-GBit NICs: one NIC connected to the Office Communications Server network, and the second NIC connected to the media gateway |
Operating system | Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, or higher |
Other | Active Directory directory service for Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 required |
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