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Polycom Unified Conferencing
Presentation Agenda
Why Unified Conferencing?
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Polycom Unified Conferencing Experience
MGC Platform & System Architecture
Unified Conferencing Scheduling & Management
Competitive Overview
Easy Migration Path
Summary Of Customer Benefits
Why Unified Conferencing?
End users are demanding more….
– Seamless, converged conferencing over any network and
communications media
– Easy / simple / intuitive user interfaces
– Reservationless & ad hoc services, regardless of
communications media
Networks are delivering more….
– Ever expanding range of network technologies
– Increasing range of endpoints
Infrastructure and operations support is getting
more complex
Polycom Unified Conferencing
One MGC platform to support for full featured
video, voice and unified conferences
One conferencing experience for voice and
video conference participants
One management tool for support personnel
and end users
Polycom Unified Conferencing....
Is The Answer
Shared hardware and software system resources to
support video and voice multipoint and gateway
conferences
Leading edge solution built on the established,
reliable MGC platform architecture
Key building block for the Polycom Office
Superior return on investment
Flexible deployment options - Easy upgrade path
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Key To The Polycom Office
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Polycom Unified Conferencing seamlessly brings together
conference participants into a unified, robust conferencing
experience
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Regardless of communications media - audio and video
Regardless of network, PSTN, ISDN and IP
VoicePlus conferencing features, audio and video
Touch Tone end user control for audio and video conferences
Simultaneously supports fully featured:
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PSTN audio conferences
VoIP audio conferences
ISDN video conferences
IP video conferences
Unified ISDN/IP video and PSTN/IP audio
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Polycom Unified Conferencing supports:
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“One Dial”
“Conference On-Demand”
WebOffice integration
People + Content
Pro-Motion 60 fields per second
H.264
Siren 14
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Full Featured VoicePlus, VideoPlus and Unified Conferencing
Selected Feature Support For Voice, Video And Unified Conferences
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Attended Conference Service
Unattended Conference Service
Ad Hoc Conference Service
Full, Automatic Transcoding Of Audio & Video
ISDN & IP Conferences
Web Browser Based Conference Scheduling And Management
Conference Entry Queue With Greeting
Invite New Participants To Conference
Blast Dial-Out
IVR / DTMF Based Conference Management
Conference & Chairperson Security Codes
Conference Rollcall
Voting / Polling
Question And Answers
WebOffice Integration
Siren 14 Khz audio
30 Frames Per Second In CP, 60 Fields Per Second VS
Hardware And Software Based Continuous Presence
Click&View
Automatic Rate Detection And Downspeeding
People + Content
Voice & Video
Voice & Video
Voice & Video
Voice & Video
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Voice & Video
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Voice & Video
Voice & Video
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Polycom Unified Conferencing
One MGC Platform
One MGC platform to support video,
voice and unified conferencing
– Multipoint and gateway video and voice
conferences
• ISDN video, IP video, PSTN voice, VoIP
and unified multipoint
• ISDN-to-IP video, IP-to-IP video, PSTNto-VoIP and VoIP-to-VoIP gateway
– Video, voice and unified conferences
integrated with web collaboration
MGC Conferencing Platforms
Flexible deployment options on any one or
combination of MGC platforms
MGC 100 large enterprise and service
provider conferencing platform
– Custom system configurations
– 16 universal slots
– Redundant power supplies
MGC 50 enterprise conferencing platform
– Custom system configurations
– 8 universal slots
MGC 25 workgroup and distributed
conferencing platform
– Standard system configurations
– No capacity upgrades
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One MGC Platform
Polycom’s MGC 50/100 conferencing platform architecture
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Robust telecom architecture
Front-accessible hot-swappable resource modules
Self configuring resource modules
System redundancy
Total resource sharing technology
Full, automatic transcoding
On-line software downloads
MGC track record of proven performance
– Industry leader in video conferencing market
– Thousands installed
– Reputation for high quality / reliable performance and ease of
maintenance
Multi-Way Transcoding
Enables Seamless Connection, Regardless Of Network
Polycom MGC Platform
Shared Hardware Resources
Video
Shared Modules
Voice
Shared Modules
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Benefits Shared Hardware Resources
ISDN
H.320
ISDN network connections can support both
PSTN voice and ISDN video conferences
Network costs are reduced
IP network connections can support both VoIP
and IP video conferences
IP interface costs are reduced
Network back-up is improved
PRI.T1.E1
IP
H.323
10.100 MB
Audio
IP back-up is improved
Investments in IP are leveraged
Audio resources can support all video and
voice conferences
Audio support costs are reduced
Any audio algorithm can be supported
Audio back-up is improved
Video
TC – CP
Data
T.120
CP resources can support ISDN and IP video
conferences
Advanced + CP ISDN and IP conferences
Click&View provides endpoint control over their
Tx resources can support mixed all
conferences
video experience
T.120 resources can support any mix of ISDN
and IP video endpoints per conference
T.120 support costs are reduced
Easily connect anyone from anywhere
T.120 back-up is improved
ISDN/IP video conferences with T.120
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Benefits Shared Software Resources
MGC Operating System
Multipoint
Gateway
Transcoding
Audio
Video
Data Rates
Unified Conference Suite
IVR/DTMF Voice & Video
Single Number
Entry Queue
Virtual Meeting Rooms
IP Packet Commander
Duplicate Packets
Audio Optimization
Packet Synchronization
Jitter Correction
QoS Bit Insertion
MGC MMCS software supports
video and voice multipoint and
gateway conferences
Reduced costs maintaining OS
Audio transcoding supports video
and voice conferences
Voice and video conferences can support
narrow and wide band audio
Video and data rate transcoding
supports ISDN and IP video
conferences
Full transcoding enables mixed, ISDN and
IP video conferences
All voice and video participants use
the same # to connect
Connecting to a Unified Conference is
simple
IVR/DTMF based features are
available to all participants and to all
conferences
All voice, video and unified conferences
share the same robust IVR/DTMF
features
IP packets are processed to produce
correctly structured and video and
voice IP data streams
IP based voice and video conference
quality is improved
MGC transmitted IP packets receive
IP network QoS
OS improvements benefits video and
voice conferencing support
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Scheduling And Management Options
One management application for
system and operations support
– Support a single or network of MGC
platforms from a single application
window
– Powerful diagnostic and fault
resolution capability down to the DSP
level
One browser interface to schedule
and manage video, voice and
unified conferences
One IVR/DTMF interface to manage
video, voice and unified
conferences
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Unified Scheduling And Management
Support personnel and end users have one
management application for conference scheduling and
manage
– Less training is required
– Productivity is improved
Manage a network of MGC 100s, MGC 50s and MGC 25s
from a single application window
Management application upgrades costs less and
require less training
WebCommander provides a single end user interface
for scheduling and managing voice, video and unified
conferences
IVR/DTMF single user interface for managing and
interacting with VoicePlus features in voice, video and
unified conferences
Billing and reporting applications support for both MGC
voice, video and unified conferencing means that only
one set of support processes are required
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Competitive Overview
Same experience for voice and
video participants regardless
of their network: IP, ISDN,
PSTN
 Voice & video IVR/DTMF
 Voice & video entry queue
 Voice & video roll call
 Voice & video Q&A
 Voice & video voting/polling
Simultaneous support for full
featured:
 PSTN voice
 VoIP voice
 ISDN video
 IP video
 Unified voice & video
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* Competitor’s information is based on publicly available information and is subject to change.
Polycom cannot guarantee the accuracy of such information.
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Competitive Overview
Polycom RadVision Tandberg
Wide band audio 14 Khz
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Enterprise People And
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Integrated Web collaboration
Workgroup, Enterprise and
Service Provider Platform
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* Competitor’s information is based on publicly available information and is subject to change.
Polycom cannot guarantee the accuracy of such information.
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Easy Migration Path
Migrate to Polycom Unified Conferencing, when it
is needed
– Start with a MGC 100, MGC 50 or MGC 25 Unified system
configuration
– Start with a MGC 100, MGC 50 or MGC 25 VideoPlus system
configuration and upgrade to unified
– Start with a MGC 100, MGC 50 or MGC 25 VoicePlus system
configuration and upgrade to unified
– Start with a MGC 100. MGC 50 or MGC 25 Gateway system
configuration and upgrade to unified
Polycom Unified Conferencing
MGC Upgrade
Audio+ - 12, 24, 48 and 96 ports modules
Video+ - 8 port module
Click&View
Unified Conferencing Suite
– Audio & video IVR/DTMF interface
– VoicePlus features in video
Polycom Unified Conferencing
Summary Of Customer Benefits
One MGC platform to support for full featured
video, voice and unified conferences
One conferencing experience for voice and video
conference participants
One management tool for support personnel and
end users
Flexible deployment options - easy upgrade path
Superior return on investment
Polycom Unified Conferencing