»Overview
Avaya Equinox® Media Server is a virtual media server with the following built-in components for media -processing and real-time collaboration:
| Component | Supports |
| MCU | • Transcoding and composition of video • Audio and video support for WebRTC-based thin clients • Web collaboration |
| Media server | • High-scale audio and multi-stream video
• WebRTC gateway |
| Web collaboration server | Web collaboration |
Equinox Media Server processes all media on the server CPU and does not need media accelerator blades. Equinox Media Server supports multiple technologies for processing audio and video, such as transcoding and switching, and is compatible with different types of enterprise deployments.
Equinox Media Server is part of the Avaya Equinox® solution. Components of Avaya Equinox® can be combined to fit the existing network topology and video conferencing requirements of the organization. Equinox Media Server is required in the Over The Top and Team Engagement deployments of Avaya Equinox®.
You can configure Equinox Media Server as a master or slave server in distributed enterprise networks to support high-quality video or high-capacity audio, along with web collaboration. You can configure Equinox Media Server as a dedicated web collaboration server. You can also configure Equinox Media Server as a cascaded gateway to Scopia® Elite 6000 MCU. As a cascaded gateway, Equinox Media Server acts as a WebRTC gateway or as a dedicated web collaboration server.
The performance and capacity of each Equinox Media Server deployment depends on the physical cores, RAM, disk space, and the network interfaces allocated to the virtual machine.