Product Description

Sametime with High Definition Continuous Presence Video Conferencing from RADVISION’s SCOPIA.

IBM’s Lotus® Sametime® is an award-winning, market-leading platform for unified communications and Collaboration that makes it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another. Integrating communications and collaboration in a rich, multimedia experience, IBM Lotus Sametime delivers unified telephony, voice, video, enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, video chats, Web conferencing, e-mail, voice mail, and business processes and applications, enabling a whole new way for people, teams and communities to work together.
RADVISION®’s SCOPIA® platform powers Lotus Sametime’s multimedia features – turning it into a complete unified communications solution. The SCOPIA platform enables users to directly create and initiate multiparty audio and video conferences from within Lotus Sametime and provides connectivity to telepresence, video conferencing room and desktop systems, along with 3G mobile and standard phones.

IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 Integration

IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 provides new client capabilities including native support of high definition video communications.  RADVISION’s new solution enables seamless integration between a Sametime 8.5 deployment and SCOPIA video conferencing infrastructure.  Sametime users will be able to enjoy the power and capabilities of the SCOPIA platform with the native Sametime client with no additional installation required.  Benefits of RADVISION’s Sametime 8.5 integration include:

• Uncompromised high definition multiparty video conferencing up to 1080p
• Continuous Presence video layouts to view multiple participants simultaneously
• Connectivity to telepresence, video conferencing room and desktop systems, along with 3G mobile and standard phones
• High scalability through RADVISION’s patented distributed multipoint architecture
• High error resiliency with H.264 SVC connections between MCUs
• Simple deployment for administrators requiring no additional installation for Sametime users.

IBM/RADVISION Solution Features

• Multiparty audio & video sessions from within Sametime Instant Messaging.
• Continuous Presence to see multiple participants simultaneously.
• Users can create and initiate audio & video conferences directly from Sametime, escalating Instant Messaging sessions into multi-party audio & video sessions.
• Fully interoperable audio & video connectivity between Sametime and PC web cams, video conferencing systems,3G video phones, standard and VoIP phones.
• Supports a mix of HD and standard room systems and desktops in the same conference, with no adverse effect on common capabilities and functions.
• Seamless audio & video firewall traversal.
• Mix HD (High Definition) and standard room systems and desktops in the same call without all participants downgrading to their common capabilities.
• Reduces total cost of ownership in an integrated product offering exceptional HD video quality that is both scalable and cost-effective.
• Enterprise Directory Integration for easy database and address book maintenance and user provisioning.
  • IBM Lotus Notes integration
  • IBM Domino Directory service integration