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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.
Example 3: One site with two classes of users
Example 3 shows a scenario where different classes of users are assigned different call rates within a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager.

Example 3: One site with two classes of users

Example 3 shows a scenario where different classes of users are assigned different call rates within a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager.

The next scenario considers two different classes of users. In this scenario, traffic in all sites and between all sites is treated uniformly, but different classes of users are considered to enforce different call rates between these different users.

As a first example, assume administrators want to allow all calls involving VIPs (VIP to anyone) to run at 384 kbps but calls between standard users to be 16 kbps audio-only calls.

Table 1. Policies for VIP to AnyonePolicies that allow higher call rates for VIP calls to anyone
Order	User1	Site1	User2	Site2	Normal Call Rate	Peak Utilization Call Rate
1	VIP	Any	Any	Any	Video call, 384 kbps	Audio-only call, 16 kbps
2	Any	Any	Any	Any	Audio-only call, 16 kbps	Audio-only call, 16 kbps

In a second example, administrators want to allow all calls between VIPs to run at 384 kbps, but all other calls to be 16 kbps audio-only.

Table 2. Policies for VIP to VIPPolicies that allow higher call rates for calls between VIPs
Order	User1	Site1	User2	Site2	Normal Call Rate	Peak Utilization Call Rate
1	VIP	Any	VIP	Any	Video call, 384 kbps	Audio-only call, 16 kbps
2	Any	Any	Any	Any	Audio-only call, 16 kbps	Audio-only call, 16 kbps