Download Huawei Videoconferencing System Interoperates with Microsoft

Huawei Videoconferencing System Interoperates with
Microsoft Lync2010 to Improve Business Collaboration
Video communication is becoming increasingly popular as an integral component of any
collaboration system. However, enterprises are faced with an awkward situation where
room-based videoconferencing systems cannot interoperate with unified communications (UC)
systems that incorporate functions such as email, instant messaging, and web conferencing. This
adversely affects the internal communication efficiency and increases operation costs. Enterprises
require videoconferencing systems to be interoperable with UC systems.
Huawei videoconferencing systems are interoperable with Microsoft Lync2010, allowing
enterprise users to participate in meetings from anywhere through either video conferencing
systems in conference rooms or from their mobile devices. This interoperability helps improve
business collaboration.
Interoperability between videoconferencing and UC systems allows users to initiate, join, and
manage conferences quickly and conveniently, have a more consistent experience across multiple
endpoints, and enhance communication efficiency. Specifically, the interoperability between
videoconferencing and UC systems is implemented as follows:
First, video endpoints, telepresence systems, and Service Management Center (SMC) 2.0 directly
integrate Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Users of Huawei videoconferencing endpoints can
search online AD users and save the results to the local address books, with presence enabled for
contacts in the local address books. User can call local sites or online LDAP sites to schedule
multipoint conferences on the SMC 2.0.
Second, Huawei's plug-in for Outlook makes it more convenient to organize and participate in
video meetings. Users can schedule video meetings directly from Outlook, which they are already
familiar with. Lync2010 users and videoconferencing system users can easily join the same
meeting.
Third, Huawei video endpoints and telepresence systems directly register and share presence
information with Microsoft Lync2010 Server 2010. Lync2010 users can see the availability status
of Huawei videoconferencing systems, and place video calls easily by clicking presence-enabled
contacts. After a meeting is created using Huawei's plug-in for Outlook, a calendar invitation will
be sent to Lync2010 users and videoconferencing system.
Conferencing between Microsoft Lync2010 and Huawei videoconferencing endpoints can be
point-to-point or multipoint in mixed audiovisual format, giving users the flexibility to choose a
convenient location to participate in a certain meeting.
When Microsoft Lync2010 clients interoperate with Huawei videoconferencing systems, the same
Lync2010 look and feel is preserved to provide Lync2010 users a seamless experience. Huawei
videoconferencing system's interoperability allows Lync2010 users to switch between audio-only
and video conferencing at the click of a button to switch the video on or off. In addition, a user can
hold and resume a Lync2010 call both in point-to-point and multipoint conferences.
Huawei videoconferencing takes advantage of direct integration with Microsoft Lync2010 through
an easily-set-up IP network connection. There is no need to add a gateway or alter the original
Microsoft UC system, resulting in no increase in hardware or network costs.
To guarantee communication security, Huawei devices including endpoints, telepresence and
MCU support Transport Layer Security (TLS) for signal encryption and Secure Real Time
Protocol (SRTP) for media encryption, providing customers with secure and reliable
communication for commercial applications.