S8300 Survivability

[Stinney]

We are in the process of purchasing a new system for our company.

After a year of meetings, discussions, configurations our vendor has just sprung on us that the S8300 only has Local Survivability for 7 days.

Has anyone heard of this? I can't find any Avaya documentation that confirms this statement.

 

[IPSI]

With the latest version of Communication Manager, when there is a system failure that causes the LSP to take over call processing, the LSP will continue to work normally for Thirty (30) days. If additional time is required to repair the problem that caused the LSP to become active, Avaya can extend the license mode.

This is all just a software "feature" that Avaya built into the system so that people do not buy an LSPs (which each have all of the RTU of the main system) and use them as stand-alone system.

For the majority of situation, 30 consecutive days is generally more than enough to resolve a system or connectivity issue.

I hope this helps!

IPSI

 

[petran]

Hello,

The LSP will continue to work normally beyond 30 days in license-error mode. The only thing that is blocked after 30 days is the ability to make changes to the LSP administration (I have personally tested this at a customer's site). So the S8300 is a good survivability option. I have installed it in several customers and it is OK.

Petran.