Polycom MGC/MGC+ Unified Conferencing Bridges
Solution Overview
Polycom, Inc. 4750 Willow Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588. 1.800.POLYCOM www.polycom.com
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On-Demand Unified Conferencing – User Scenario
Let’s take a look at what “on-demand unified conferencing” means to a typical Polycom employee in their day-to-day
work, taking advantage of Polycom technology. Employee “Mary” has been assigned a personal meeting room, which
for ease of use purposes is the same number as the extension on her desk phone – 4445.
9:00 am
. Mary is sitting at her desk, working on a presentation.
Bill, her boss, calls her on her desk phone, which is extension
4445. This is simply a point-to-point audio call.
11:00 am
. Bill has some personnel issues to discuss with Mary,
and wants to see her face-to-face to ensure a good discussion
with full communication. Bill has sent Mary an email, asking her
to join him in a video meeting using Mary’s meeting room number.
Bill simply dials Mary’s on-demand meeting room - 4445 - from his
video endpoint, and Mary joins in by dialing the same number. Bill
and Mary have now “met” on the bridge in Mary’s meeting room.
11:30 am.
When the discussion is wrapping up, Bill asks how
the presentation is coming along. Mary is still waiting on some
data from colleague Ken, so Bill suggests they conference him
in to their video call. Mary, using Microsoft Office Communicator,
can see that Ken is “on line”, and sends him an IM telling him to
join her video meeting room. Ken simply dials 4445, and he too
is in the meeting. The point-to-point call has now seamlessly
escalated to a multipoint call.
11:40 am
. The team wants to view the presentation, which Mary
has active on her desktop. Mary simply clicks on her Polycom
Content IP icon – enters the IP number of her VSX –
and immediately all colleagues on the call are viewing the
presentation on their VSX endpoints, taking advantage of H.239
data sharing support on the MGC.
Content
Software IP
(Desktop Icon)
