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High Availability
Method
Scalability Method
Path
N/A
Pre-established
relationship.
Request Instruction from IVR Service to VRU PG and Unified
ICME
N/A
Pre-established
relationship.
Micro-application Request from Unified ICME and VRU PG to
IVR Service
N/A
Pre-established
relationship.
VXML Micro-application Request from IVR Service to VXML
Gateway
- If the request is a
micro-application request,
CSS can be used to scale
ASR/TTS requests to an
Request from VXML Gateway to MRCP Server
and CSS is not used, then
array of servers. If no
the Unified ICME routing
CSS is used, then those
script can identify a locale
requests which originate
name, which maps to an
as micro-applications can
ASR/TTS server with one
support one primary and
backup. IVR Service
one backup ASR/TTS
always tries the primary
server for each locale.
ASR or TTS Server first,
Without a CSS, requests
and fails over to the
from VXML Server
backup if necessary,
applications can only go
remaining there for the
to a single ASR/TTS
life of the call.
server defined in the
gateway.
Subsequent calls try the
primary first again.
- If the request originates
from a VXML Server
script and CSS is not
used, then there is no
automatic failover to a
backup ASR/TTS server.
- In either case, if a CSS
is used, it implements its
own automatic failover to
an array of ASR/TTS
servers.
IVR Service always tries
the primary Media Server
Unified ICME routing
script identifies a Media
Request from VXML Gateway to Media Server
first, and fails over to the
Server and one backup, or
backup if necessary,
if CSS is used, an array of
remaining there for the
Media Servers can be
used.
life of the call.
Subsequent calls try the
primary first again. Note
that most files fetched
from the Media Server
remain cached on the
VXML Gateway. This
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