Site types
A network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager can work with several different types of sites. All IP ranges that have been configured for a site are maintained if you change the site's type.
- Regular sites Use regular sites to model physical locations, such as buildings, campuses, or cities, in the enterprise network topology model.
- They are represented by the IP addresses or ranges of endpoints that are supported in them.
- They can have associated bandwidth pools and constraints.
- Cloud sites Use cloud sites to model intermediate connection points for multiple virtual circuits in the network topology model.
- They do not have any IP ranges associated with them.
- They cannot have any endpoints associated with them.
- They cannot have any bandwidth constraints associated with them.
- VPN Use VPN sites to model home and mobile user VPNs as users of the physical enterprise network in the topology model.
- Like regular sites, they are represented by the IP addresses or ranges of endpoints that are supported in them and they also have bandwidth constraints.
- They cannot have physical links with other sites.
- They can have virtual links to other sites only via the Internet site.