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Videoconferencing with Microsoft Lync January 2012 Sponsored by: Contents Unified Communications Overview 1 Microsoft and Unified Communications 1 Microsoft Lync - Under the Hood 2 Lync as a Video Platform 3 Video Conferencing Options within Lync 4 Video Conferencing Interoperability with Lync 4 Solution #1: Direct Endpoint Integration 4 Solution #2: Lync Video Gateways 5 Solution Summary 7 Introducing the RADVISION SCOPIA Video Gateway 7 About RADVISION 8 About Wainhouse Research 8 The video conferencing industry is in the midst of its third large scale transformation since its founding 30 years ago. The first such development was the shift from proprietary protocols and algorithms to ITU industry standards in the 1980s; the second fundamental shift took place at the end of the 20th century as customers shifted from public switched ISDN networks to video conferencing over IP. Both of these shifts drove dramatic increases in deployments because they made video conferencing more interoperable, more affordable, and ultimately, more capable of delivering higher performance audio and video. Now the industry is going through an equally important evolution that promises to make video conferencing far more usable and far more integrated into the enterprise workflow. Welcome to the age of unified communications. Unified Communications Overview While there is no universally accepted definition for unified communications (UC), it is safe to say that UC is not a specific product or service, but rather a concept in which a single user interface is used to access a variety of communications modalities – presence, instant messaging, telephony, and audio/video/web conferencing – on an ad-hoc basis. The UC interface can be a separa