What is the difference between Clan and medpro? 2

[1a22ip]

I'am going to upgrade to V11 and try Voip trunking. The order has two CLan boards and Avaya says I need two medpro cards. All the searching on the net points me to the Clan. The one site said something about Clan in medpro mode??? boy am I confused.

By the way what is the cost of a medpro board

Thanks in advance
ED

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[4merAvaya]

The list price for a Medpro (TN2302) is around $9K. The C-LAN board (TN799) provides control functions for IP Telephony. The Medpro actually does the conversion from Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) to IP. In an uncompressed mode (G.711) a Medpro can handle 64 simutaneous conversations. If you use compression, that number drops down to 32 conversations. In addition to IP telephony, the C-LAN also supports adjunct connectivity (CMS/Intuity AUDIX), telnet administration access, CDR output, IP Agent/IP Softphone, and system printing to the LAN.

Kevin

 

[Dunstan]

Essentially the C-Lan is a NIC card (glorified) the heavy lifting so to speak is done in the Media Gateway aka Medpro

 

[lopes1211]

CLAN does the station signalling and Medpro does the voice compression/conversion. A hardphone or softphone road warrior needs one of each. A softphone in dual connect (signalling via IP, voice via local POTS line) only requies the CLAN for the signalling since no VOIP is actually taking place).

-CL

 

[1a22ip]

Thanks Everyone! I am going back to Avaya and see what they are going to do about the missing cards. Thanks Again

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