Polycom UC Intelligent Core

The Polycom corporation announced release of the new software of Polycom UC Intelligent Core. Enter it not having analogs in the improvement industry which will allow clients to unroll more devices, than ever, it is easy to connect any devices, standards or networks and to provide the most high-quality communication in the class against the background of cost reduction.

"UC Intelligent Core is the central element of the joint communications and a key component of our concept UC Everywhere which continues to change rules of the game in the industry, providing the scalability and interoperability which do not have equal — Sudhakar Ramakrishna, the development director of Polycom corporation says. — We accelerate implementation of video cooperation to wide spheres and we promote cost reduction, making process easier for all its participants from the end user for the IT administrator".

Providing scalability of operator level, more in what 5 times exceeding the corresponding indicator of the competing solutions UC, the new release of software allows Polycom UC Intelligent Core to increase base of devices to 75,000 units that will help large corporations and service providers to cope with effect of animation of new devices of the joint communications, from mobile devices to the room systems of telepresence. Intellectual balancing of loading and automatic transition to a fallback resource guarantee 100% working off of failures that does the joint communications so reliable and available as other critically responsible types of communication, such as voice transmission or data.

Using power of cloud computing, the Polycom UC Intelligent Core platform will create "the universal bridge" — the industry-first mechanism for connection of users irrespective of the standard of the protocol, the device, network and location, thereby helping to reduce costs and to increase performance. This universal bridge will support a broad spectrum of protocols, including H.323, TIP, SIP, SVC, POTS/ISDN and RTV, and will become ideal option for the users who are looking for a method is easy and transparent to connect several organizations. The new advanced solution UC Intelligent Core ensures unprecedented safety, scale, a scope, availability and readiness at the total ownership cost below, than ever.

The platform of UC Intelligent Core — the only solution with the guaranteed service class due to the dynamic prioritization providing a high-quality communication, so promoting performance improvement and payback. Besides, the UC Intelligent Core technology will allow to implement video to wide spheres at the expense of the built-in mechanisms of integration into daily used tools of the organization of workflow, such as Microsoft Lync and IBM SameTime. The built-in mechanisms of integration will allow clients imperceptibly for end users to connect two different communication frameworks, such as Lync and video telepresence. Usability and access to all necessary tools of the organization of workflow will provide organic decision making of the joint communications by end users.

Thanks to simplification of scenarios of use in the integrated deployments assuming involvement of several suppliers, UC Intelligent Core offers the widest choice of the solutions UC for support of broad range of environments, methods of application and budgets. Effective use of bandwidth, characteristic of the systems of Polycom (decrease in the consumed capacity to 50 %) due to H.264 High Profile technology in combination with the improvements directed to communication quality improvement stimulate distribution of a videkonferentssvyaza with simultaneous cost reduction of all organizations participating in process.

The Polycom UC Intelligent Core platform simplifies administration of the joint communications. The built-in mechanisms of Active Directory integration considerably accelerate installation and setup — the lack of need for difficult reconfiguring reduces deployment terms from weeks to minutes, respectively reducing also expenses. The advanced technology of a bypass of firewalls providing broad access to B2B-communications through one port also is a part of the solution — it eliminates need for opening of several ports for the corporate firewall and at the same time provides secure mutual access between locations, the organizations and a cloud.

Unlike any other solution which is available in the market, the platform of UC Intelligent Core is capable:

• provide the simplest access through the delivery of video content based on cloud computing in real time and on demand and also stream transfer of video content based on the solutions of Polycom of the Accordent family locating the built-in mechanisms of integration into Microsoft Lync and SharePoint;
• expand interoperability and the support of the solutions UC and third-party devices based on standards, including support of Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Windows 7, at the same time locating improvements for support of Avaya Aura and Cisco CUCM networks;
• provide balancing of loading between bridges in quantity to 192 units — the unique offer of Polycom which does not have the competing analogs.