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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 an instant messaging gateway for external communities
Clients in a local IBM® Sametime® community can communicate with users in other communities through the Sametime Gateway.

Deploying an instant messaging gateway for external communities

Clients in a local IBM® Sametime® community can communicate with users in other communities through the Sametime Gateway.

Before you begin

Sametime Gateway supports direct connections between your internal Sametime communities and external Sametime communities that are hosted outside of your intranet. If some of your Sametime users connect from outside of the firewall but belong to a community hosted inside the firewall, you do not need to deploy Sametime Gateway. For information on supporting those users, see Deploying Sametime servers in the extranet.

About this task

Complete the tasks in the following topics to install a Sametime Gateway server.