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Deploying
IBM® Sametime® consists of a variety of servers and clients, and can be deployed to suit many different environments. The deployment instructions are organized by feature set, beginning with the minimum components that are necessary to support instant messaging, and then expanding the deployment to include features such as audio and video support, and conferencing.
Deploying audio and video
Audio and video features are provided primarily by the IBM® Sametime® Media Manager, which supports point-to-point and multipoint calls. The Sametime Media Manager uses standard audio and video codecs so that it works with products from other audio and video vendors.
Installing Sametime® Bandwidth Manager
The IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager is an optional component that lets you configure bandwidth usage settings for your Sametime deployment.
Configuring Sametime® Bandwidth Manager
Configure the bandwidth management modules to control bandwidth usage within a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager, defining sites, links between them, call rates that control bandwidth utilization, and policies that apply the rates to various classes of user.
Configuring call rate policies
In an IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager deployment, you can define call rates to be used during periods of normal utilization, and call rates to be used during periods of peak utilization. Combine these call rates with different classes of users and different locations to create call rate policies.
Call rate policy examples
To understand how call rate policy works in a network managed by IBM® Sametime Bandwidth Manager, review the examples in this section.

Call rate policy examples

To understand how call rate policy works in a network managed by IBM® Sametime Bandwidth Manager, review the examples in this section.

This section provides examples of typical call rate policies, showing the settings as they appear on the Call Rate Policies screen, beginning with a simple call rate policy and progressing to more complex examples that illustrate the concepts involved in configuring call rate policies.