IBM Whitepaper - Understanding IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 enterprise architecture and design

Saw this on Ben Williams' blog this morning, and wanted to re-share it.

Summary:  This white paper describes the various architectural possibilities for an IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 environment. It discusses how each component can be implemented in both a managed and unmanaged configuration, including example deployments, as well as caveats and restrictions for each component.

This white paper describes the various architectural possibilities for an IBM Lotus® Sametime® 8.5.1 environment. It discusses how each component can be implemented in both a managed and unmanaged configuration, including example deployments, as well as caveats and restrictions for each component.

In this white paper

• Introduction

• Architecture design considerations

• WAS component architecture

• Sametime Community services

• Sametime Classic Meeting services

• Sametime System Console

• Sametime Proxy server

• Sametime Meeting server

• Sametime Media server

• Assembling the infrastructure

• Conclusion

• Resources

• About the author

The white paper is on developerWorks here, *BUT* please go and check out Ben's blog, as it's chock-full of nuts good stuff.