ixi-UMS Overview

ixi-UMS Enterprise is a powerful unified messaging software, that provides services such as Fax, Voice, SMS and mobile access.

The ixi-UMS software is designed modularly and basically consists of the components Kernel, Connectors and Services.

The ixi-UMS Kernel is the core of the software and handles all the outward communication processes.

The ixi-UMS Connectors provide the integration in different systems like e.g. Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino or SAP.

The ixi-UMS Services can be combined with each other flexibly. That way, ixi-UMS can be applied as pure fax server, for example, or as a complete unified messsaging system with Fax, Voice and SMS.

As it is based on standards, ixi-UMS can basically be operated with all the common PBX's (conventional or IP-based).

Funktion:

A professional, server-based Unified Messaging system exists of several components: A phone binding (PBX), the interface between computer and phone system (here the so-called. Kernel), a connection with the mail server (Connector) and the mail server.

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PBX

The PBX establishes the connection to the telephone network. For the application of ixi-UMS Enterprise, any PBX can be used.

For ixi-UMS Server, a point-to-point or a point-to-multipoint connection can be used.

Kernel

The "core" of ixi-UMS is the Kernel. It is the actual server and establishes the interface between computer and telephone network.

A CAPI that is provided by an ISDN-board or a V-CAPI (e.g. Express@LAN) is needed as interface. The CAPI is a kind of “translator” between computer application and ISDN-board.

Connector

Another module is the Connector that provides the connection between the Kernel and the mail server used. ixi-UMS Kernelcan be applied with one or multiple Connectors.

·	Mail Server

The task of the mail server is to distribute the messages, e.g. faxes, or pass them on to the connector.

The connection by ixi-UMS Connectors is "independent" of the ixi-UMS Kernel. The data exchange is done via Connector directories. This is why it is possible that one single ixi-UMS Kernel can collaborate with one or several Connectors. Another possible constellation is that several ixi-UMS Kernels collaborate with one or several Connectors (e.g. for reasons of high availability).

Connectors and Interfaces:

·	ixi-UMS mail Server Connector - for all mail systems and LDAP databases. Replaces all SMTP-based connectors starting at ixi-UMS Enterprise Version 6.70

§	ixi-UMS Exchange Connector – for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 / 2010 / 2013 with user management in the Active Directory

§	ixi-UMS Domino Connector – for IBM Lotus Domino 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x with user management in IBM Lotus Domino

§	ixi-UMS SMTP Connector - for SMTP-based messaging systems and for network scanners, multi function printers like e.g. Lexmark, Hewlett Packard HP MFP with user management in OPEN LDAP

·	ixi-UMS Connector for use with SAP® R/3® - for the integration in SAP-systems without LDAP-based user management

·	ixi-UMS FAPI Connector – File API for the connection of own applications without LDAP-based user management

For more detailed information, please have a look at the respective ixi-UMS Connector manual.

Before outgoing messages can be sent by the ixi-UMS Kernel, they have to be "converted" in a respective format. This process is called "rendering". There are two ways of rendering with ixi-UMS Enterprise

·	server-based rendering

·	client-based rendering

Server-based rendering

With server-based rendering, all the file attachments are processed at a central point. For this, the application that shall be sent as fax has to be installed on the respective machine.

If a Word-file is attached to the fax, for example, it is passed on to the ixi-UMS Connector by the mail server, e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server, and then passed on to the Render Connector affiliated in the ixi-UMS Kernel.

It "opens" the Word-document and prints it via a particular printer. Therewith, a file is created that contains a graphical image as well as information, e.g. the sender number.

This file is passed on to the ixi-UMS Kernel.

Client-rendering

Client-rendering means the creation of a fax at the user workstation. For this, "Client Tools" are needed that provide an own printer, amongst others. Via this printer, a fax-capable file can be created out of any application installed.

With this type of rendering, the application is not needed on the server.

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