
Provisioning Session Manager and Communication Manager CAC together
For simultaneous use of Session Manager and Communication Manager CAC, following
configurations should be done:
1. Create 1-to-1 mapping of Session Manager Locations to Communication Manager
Network Regions, because Communication Manager uses Network Regions for
CAC. This is limited by the fact that Communication Manager supports no more
than 250 Network Regions, while Session Manager supports thousands of
Locations.
2. As Session Manager maps IP addresses to Locations, Communication Manager
maps IP addresses to Network Regions. These mappings must be synchronized
manually.
3. As part of Communication Manager administration, the SIP trunk to Communication
Manager must be placed within a dummy Network Region for which no CAC limits
are set.
This enables the following changes:
• Calls terminated to non-SIP destinations (H.323 phones, non-SIP trunks) are counted by
Communication Manager CAC for the appropriate Network Regions.
• All calls terminated to SIP destinations (SIP phones, SIP trunks on Session Manager) are
counted by Session Manager CAC for the appropriate Locations.
• SIP trunks on Communication Manager that do not route to Session Manager (not a
recommended configuration) are counted by Communication Manager.
Note:
Communication Manager performs CAC in terms of bandwidth limits between two specific
Network Regions, while Session Manager performs CAC as per limits covering all traffic into
or out of a Location, regardless of the far-end location.
Recommended modifications for the earlier versions of Session Manager
1. For CAC in Session Manager 6.0 used for counting calls
CAC may have been provisioned in Session Manager 6.0 by setting the "Average Bandwidth
per Call" limit to 1 kbps which provides a simple call count limit of X simultaneous calls in the
location. In such case, clearing Ignore SDP for Call Admission Control option (“Use SDP”
CAC mode) drastically reduces the number of calls allowed in the location since the common
codec G.711-Mu uses 83 kbps which limits the number of calls allowed to change from X to
X/83.
For Session Manager 6.1, CAC does not enforce a limit on the number of calls per location
but applies a limit on the bandwidth usage. The limits for each location should be multiplied by
the determined average bandwidth per call Y (in kbps). If there are no multimedia users in the
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