Polycom 7000 User Manual

Polycom, Inc. 

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Distributed Media Application™ (DMA

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7000 site topology configuration topics: 

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Site topology information logically describes your network and its interfaces to other networks, including the 
following elements: 

● Site — A local area network (LAN) that generally corresponds with a geographic location such as an 

office or plant. A site contains one or more network subnets, so a device’s IP address identifies the 

site to which it belongs. 

● Network cloud — A Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network cloud defined in the site topology. 

An MPLS network is a private network that links multiple locations and uses label switching to tag 

packets with origin, destination, and quality of service (QOS) information. 

● Site link — A network connection between two sites or between a site and an MPLS network cloud. 
● Site-to-site exclusion — A site-to-site connection that the site topology doesn’t permit a voice or video 

call to use. 

● Territory — A collection of one or more sites for which a Polycom RealPresence DMA cluster is 

responsible. Territories serve multiple purposes in a Polycom RealPresence DMA system 

deployment. See 

A freshly installed RealPresence DMA system provides a default site topology with sites, subnets, and a site 
link that allow for endpoint registration and call routing (both multipoint and point-to-point). 

Note: Network topology and site topology can differ
Site topology information provides a logical model representation of a network topology, not 
necessarily a fully accurate literal representation of a full network.