Voice and video in the extranet for anonymous access

Topology for IBM® Sametime® deployment of voice and video in the extranet for customers with anonymous access.

Choose this deployment when you want to use IBM Sametime to collaborate with unauthenticated customers and business partners. You want to make it easy for customers by not requiring them to authenticate or install a client application.

You deploy a separate instance of the required servers in the DMZ. While it is possible to enable unauthenticated access to your intranet servers, that deployment is not secure and not recommended. If you do allow access to internal servers, use the Voice and video in the extranet for employees without VPN deployment but enable the anonymous authentication as described in Configuring anonymous authentication in the SIP Proxy/Registrar. This way the guest user is still authenticated but its not the same as from the internal directory. In this deployment employees can access either set of servers intranet or extranet.

The graphic that follows shows how you can create a secure deployment of voice and video services outside the intranet for external, anonymous access.