The name of the base system (platform): | Skype for Business (ранее Microsoft Lync) |
Developers: | Polycom |
Date of the premiere of the system: | 2016 |
Last Release Date: | September, 2017 |
Technology: | Video conferencing |
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2017
Polycom RealConnect Hybrid
Polycom RealConnect allows users of Office 365 with the connected Skype for business to communicate and interact with users of the standardized workstations without the set Skype for business. Migration in a cloud and transition to Office 365 happen in all organizations differently. Often these processes drag on for several stages. In this case Polycom RealConnect Hybrid will help to overcome an abyss between old and new environments: this system allows users of Skype for business and local video solutions to be connected to meetings through universal service Polycom in Microsoft Azure. When users are ready to switch to Office 365 and Skype for Online business, it will be rather simple to them to pass to RealConnect subscription for Office 365.
Polycom MSR (Microsoft Skype Room)
Polycom also announced in September, 2017 a possibility of the preorder of Polycom of MSR — the systems of rooms Skype of new generation. The familiar Skype interface for business allows to join a meeting one click. Thanks to excellent quality of audio-and video conference of Polycom you will communicate with interlocutors also easily as though you sat at one table. The solution of Polycom of MSR includes developments of Polycom and is suitable for meeting rooms and conference rooms of any size. The following equipment can be composition: the camera Polycom MSR Eagle Eye, conference phone number of Polycom Trio 8800, the station of the unified Polycom CX5100 conference communication, the solution Polycom Medialign and also the last developments - conference phone number of Polycom Trio 8500 and the compact device of a public address system Polycom VoxBox.
2016: Polycom RealConnect for Skype for Business
RealConnect for Skype for Business is technology for consolidation of video Skype for Business with the operating environment of other producers.
On July 4, 2016 the Polycom company announced Polycom RealConnect creation - the software solution for connection to video conferencing sessions regardless of vendor and consolidation of diverse environments of video conference.
Participants, it is not dependent on what systems of vendor they apply (from Skype for Business to solutions of Polycom or Cisco) and what hardware use (from simple voice devices to the systems of telepresence), had an opportunity to be connected easily to conferences.
The Polycom RealConnect technology eliminates barriers to podklyuyaeniye, providing the high level of interaction and giving to all end users familiar opportunities of video conference. The technology is simple in studying, the released time can be found for work.
The Polycom RealConnect technology filled up a number of our innovative developments, and its latest version allowed to adjust joint work of Skype for Business with all existing platforms of video conference. Our clients need simple and intuitive technology which without special costs interacts with other tools used in work. The Polycom RealConnect technology allowed the company to simplify communicating processes, having integrated itself everything and all. Ashan Willy Auchan, senior vice president who is responsible for product management and development of systems worldwide |
It is very simple to organize video conference using Polycom RealConnect. For this purpose it is required to send to participants of the invitation through Microsoft Outlook. Irrespective of, they use mobile devices or the systems of telepresence of Polycom and Cisco, the session looks for all equally. On screens at users of Skype for Business other conferees including panoramic video images of those who were connected through the systems of telepresence are displayed. At the same time on the screen images from nine cameras can be broadcast.
The Polycom company provided to users visibility of conferees: in video conference images of all its participants are displayed. If someone foreign was connected to a conference or it turned out that the situation surrounding the participant disturbs the discussion course, the leader of a conference can disconnect it using controls in gallery of images.
The solution Polycom RealConnect provides users of Skype for Business with a possibility of free video conference with the colleagues applying other systems. The interface is unified therefore does not matter from what device the participant comes into a conference. Besides, by means of Polycom RealConnect the organization of conferences using Microsoft Outlook becomes simpler. Each user is connected by one mouse click and all conferees can share content with each other.