How work gets done is changing. Enable people to ...

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How work gets done is changing. Enable people to collaborate naturally, from anywhereAdam Jacobs | Principal Microsoft Architect

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About me

• Work within the Polycom CTO team

• Specifically focused on voice and video solutions that integrate with Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams

• Used to live in London, UK and moved to San Francisco Bay Area almost five years ago – although my heart is still in London!

• I’m a Skype for Business MVP, co-lead various UC user groups, speak and geek out around unified intelligent communications


Session Overview

• Challenges

• Solutions

• Polycom Focus

• Futures


Enterprises typically have a significant investment within their conference rooms


Communications solutions need to cater for multiple scenarios


Whilst maintaining compatibility with existing meeting room investments


Typical Interoperability Challenges

Including Equipment in Scheduled meetings

▪ Scheduling mechanisms often require additional software

▪ Endpoints equipment (location & VTC model) may not be known by organizer

▪ Many room systems do not support native Outlook scheduling

Meeting Join

▪ May require deployment of client-side plug-ins

▪ Many VTC models have no keyboard – painful to type long dial-in strings

In Meeting

▪ Majority of existing solutions require “meet on the bridge” –

not native Skype for Business MCU and integrated roster

▪ Many interop solutions fail to show shared content correctly or to all participants


Existing RealConnect Deployments


Polycom RealConnect for Office 365

• Enables non-native devices to join a Skype for Business meeting

• Cloud service− Offered by Polycom, world-wide

− Hosted in the Microsoft Cloud using Microsoft Azure

− Users can be enabled directly from within Office 365 portal

• Supports wide range of devices− Non-native VTC devices can join a Skype Meeting

− (with a short dial string or a single click)

− Extends the Polycom RealConnect interop technology

− Supports Polycom, Cisco and other VTC devices

• Full Skype for Business experience− Meeting audio and video hosted in Skype for Business

− Simple scheduling and join URL experience

− Supports desktop and application sharing


Polycom RealConnect WorkflowInvite via Outlook

Click to join from any

Skype for Business or Lync clientJust create a new

Skype Meeting

1. Join as you always do2.

One Touch Dial from

various room systems

Collaborate with others3.

Gallery View & native content sharing

in either direction

Continuous Presence video and

standards-based content stream


License Assignment


Scheduling


RealConnect for Office 365 Region Strategy

• Optimized for Experience Traffic Manager routes calls to the “nearest” region

• Operational Continuity Operational independence of regional deployments• Failover

• Upgrade


RealConnect Regional Deployments (still under expansion)


RealConnect HybridEnvironment

▪ Skype for Business users homed on-premises only.

▪ Polycom service hosted in Microsoft Azure cloud.

▪ Microsoft Skype for Business Front-End and Edge servers deployed on-premises.

▪ Trusted Application integration between Polycom Relay and on-premises Lync/SfB Front End server.

Behavior

▪ Direct signaling communication between the Polycom Relay and Skype for Business on-premises pool for discovering both local conferences this information is then send back to the Polycom Service.

▪ Media sessions will cascade to the on-premises Skype for Business MCUs, relayed through the Edge Server. Internal

Video Systems

External

Video Systems

Internal

Clients

Skype for

Business

Server

Polycom

Service

External

Clients

Optional

H.323/SIP

Infrastructure


Microsoft Teams

Polycom Solution

New Skype Backend

Infrastructure

Teams Interop Bot

Azure/Windows

SIP/H.323 VTC Communication Services SDK

RealConnect for Office 365

(Edge, Transcode, protocol translations etc)


Try RealConnect for Office 365 free for 30 days

• Experience a demo at the Polycom stand (33)

• Try Polycom RealConnect for Office 365 and experience what it’s like to seamlessly connect your Polycom, Cisco or other standards-based video endpoint into a Skype for Business online meeting.

• Enabling the trial will grant you up to 5 user licenses that can be provisioned through Office 365 Admin Portal.

• Start at:

http://www.polycom.co.uk/FD-RC-trial

http://www.polycom.co.uk/FD-RC-trial

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