Redundancy & High Availability

This article describes TelcoBridges' VoIP Gateway high availability features. TelcoBridges' products are design with the following 2 goals in mind:

1. First and foremost, to recover from a system failure to minimize the system down time or instability as much as possible. This is achieve with a fault tolerant and redundancy architecture.
2. Secondly, to keep active calls open after a fail-over whenever possible.

TelcoBridges High Availability & Redundancy

TelcoBridges High Availability & Redundancy should be seen as a collection of features instead of one single feature. This means that customer can go as little or as far as they want to create a high availability system.

Definitions

Here is a list of terms used in the description of the high availability features:

• Active Calls
• Active/Standby
• Load Sharing
• Master/Slave
• Primary/Secondary
• Resynchronization
• Switchover
• Switchover Period
• Transient Calls

TMG800 Features

• Power Supply
• VoIP Network
• Clocking
• Signaling Protocols
• H.248
• TMG-CONTROL

TMG3200 Features

• Power Supply
• VoIP Network
• OC3/STM-1 Interface
• Clocking
• Signaling Protocols
• H.248
• TMG-CONTROL

TMG7800 Features

• Power Supply
• Network
  • VoIP Network
  • Control Network
  • TMS Network
• Tdm Interfaces
• Clocking
• Signaling Protocols
• H.248
• TMG-CONTROL
• Host redundancy
  • Hard Disks

Installation, Maintenance and Provisioning

This section will show how to install, upgrade and configure a high availability system.

First, we will look at the software installation and provisioning (Host redundancy).

• Installing a host redundancy system

• Upgrading a host redundancy system

• Configuring a host redundancy system