What role do media servers play alongside TSCs?

Media servers play a crucial role in conjunction with Tactical Session Controllers (TSCs) by assisting in handling media processing. In a communication network, TSCs focus primarily on managing the signaling and control functionalities necessary to establish, modify, and terminate sessions. Meanwhile, media servers handle the actual media streams involved in these sessions—such as audio, video, or data flows.

By offloading the media processing tasks to dedicated media servers, TSCs can operate more efficiently. This division of responsibilities allows for enhanced scalability and performance, as media servers can manage various codecs, media manipulation, and media transcoding, thus allowing TSCs to focus on session management without being weighed down by resource-intensive media functions.

This collaboration ensures that both signaling and media processing are optimized, leading to a better overall experience in multimedia communications.