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Moving from SIP Gateway to the new Real-Time Collaboration Gateway (RTC)


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For those of you that are currently running a SIP gateway and want to prepare to move to the RTC, a technote gives the first indication of what is to come.

The Real-Time Collaboration Gateway is an extensible platform built on WebSphere® Application Server, and allows various real-time collaboration communities such as IBM Lotus Sametime and public instant messaging (IM) services to share presence and exchange text-based instant messages with each other. The Real-Time Collaboration Gateway receives messages from one or more communities, checks their legitimacy, translates them if necessary, and forwards them to their destination.


So you will need another piece of hardware to replace the current Sametime SIP gateway, or just reuse the one you have with an outage.  Keep in mind the outage could be a couple days as you provision with AOL to get connected directly.  DNS and domain management will be a key to you deploying the RTC Gateway successfully.