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Planning
Planning is critical to a successful deployment. Many deployment problems, growth problems, and capacity problems occur because not enough time is taken to carefully plan a deployment. Plan your IBM® Sametime® installation by determining features needed, reviewing system requirements, determining capacity requirements, and the servers and computers needed for your deployment.
Planning Sametime® features
This section describes best practices, requirements, tips, and things you should know when planning for instant messaging and presence services, meeting services, web client services, audio and video services, broadcast communities and persistent chat rooms, including IBM® Sametime® services in the extranet for remote users and customers. Included in this section are several sample topologies, everything from simple internal meetings to voice and video for intranet and extranet users.
Planning for Media Manager services
This topic provides an overview of peer-to-peer and n-way voice and video communication in IBM® Sametime®. It describes the Sametime servers and server components, and third party components, used in voice and video.
Audio and video deployment scenarios
This topic surveys the IBM® Sametime® voice and video deployment scenarios available based on your environment and resources. This topic can help you decide which deployment is right for you.
Voice and video for chat
IBM® Sametime® servers and components needed for voice and video in chat.

Voice and video for chat

IBM® Sametime® servers and components needed for voice and video in chat.

Deploy the IBM Sametime Media Manager when you need any of the following:

Components needed: