What's New in Sametime 8.5Roberto Chiabra | IBM Certified IT Specialist

What's new in Sametime 8.5● Sametime® Connect Client● Online Meetings● Audio / Video ● Web Browser Clients & Web 2.0 APIs● Sametime Systems Console

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Sametime 8.5 Connect Client

● New Recent Contacts and Frequent Contacts views● Apply existing location settings to new location

View contacts by recent interactions or or frequency of conversations

View contacts by picture or by name

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Where can I deploy the Sametime client?Within the IBM Lotus NotesWithin the IBM Lotus Notes® client client

As a standalone clientAs a standalone client

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Microsoft Outlook integration in Sametime 8.5

Dynamically creates instant Sametime contact listInstantly click to chat, talk, share, meet with any or all copied on the message

New toolbar adds click to talk, send file, announcement, instant meet, instant share direct from Outlook Click to talk via major 3rd party telephony vendors when their plug-ins are deployed

What's new in Sametime 8.5● Sametime Connect Client● Online Meetings● Audio / Video ● Web Browser Clients & Web 2.0 APIs ● Sametime Systems Console

Next generation

Online Meeting Experience

easyto access

to get into add others

to share

to collaborate

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Key new meeting features Simpler meeting experience

• Fast meeting entry• Rich client -- Lotus Sametime Connect or Lotus Notes embedded clients• Web browsers (zero Java download for meeting viewing)

• Reservation-less meetings• Instant meetings or reusable (persistent) meeting rooms

• Improved calendar integration with Lotus Notes (or Microsoft® Outlook®) software• Improved screen and document sharing quality• Easy record /playback in a standard player (.MOV files)

Improved meeting reliability • HTTP/HTTPS connectivity replaces T.120

• Simplifies firewall/SSO etc• Built in meeting room failover

• No need for separate EMS infrastructure

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Managing meeting rooms via Sametime Connect

Create, Join, Invite, or Search directly from here.

One-click to create a room for a calendar meeting with no online room and invite everyone.

Part of the Sametime Connect 8.5 clientShelf offers views of rooms or calendar meetings. View your rooms, recently used rooms, or select someone in your contact list to view their rooms.

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Invite to others meetings from a chat

Invite to an existing room or create a new one

Invite to an Instant Meeting

Invite others by dragging from your contact list into the room. View list by name or picture.

Presenter tools – thumbnails of slides, laser pointer, annotations, size display

Materials are stored in the meeting room

library, which lists all documents and URLs

shared in the meeting.

Set room permissions

Create polls, take screen shots, and paste files into the library.

Rich text and emoticons available in

the group chat.

Lotus Sametime installed client

Quick entry to the meeting room – as easy as

joining a chat

Meeting leader or approved user can record meeting – both the shared content and the meeting

audio. Save to standard .MOV file format

Room tools give you access to meeting room settings. Also use to create reports, showing attendance, action items, meeting minutes, and

what was shared.

Click to start/stop video. Video starts after joining

the audio call. Video ‘canvas’ area contains a

single composite embedded video stream.

Call and video controls

List of participants shows connection status

Document and screen sharing

integrated into the same dialog

Easy to share a document or your screen

When choosing a document to share

Web browser client

Zero download browser experience

to view meeting content -- no Java required!

Online rooms are saved and can be re-used

Information about each room is visible and included in the calendar entry

Creating Sametime 8.5 meetings in Notes 8.5.1

Creating Sametime 8.5 meetings in Microsoft Outlook

List of meeting room servers from options panel

List of meeting rooms loaded from selected server

New servers can be registered from the form

New meeting rooms can be created or edited on the server from the form

What's new in Sametime 8.5● Sametime Connect Client● Online Meetings● Audio / Video ● Web Browser Clients & Web 2.0 APIs● Sametime Systems Console

Integrated • Unified desktop video user

experience

Open • Interoperate with partner video

conferencing systems

Managed• Improved audio/video management

Sametime 8.5 audio & video

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Sametime 8.5 audio & video capabilitiesSametime 8.5 client

• Support for chat, VoIP audio/video chats & online meetings

• N-way voice and video conversations• Active speaker switching• Encodes standard A/V streams

• H.263, H.264• G.711, G.722.1, iSAC

• SIP based A/V client

Sametime 8.5 Media Manager• SIP proxy registrar • SIP based conference focus• Media router (packet switcher)

Third-party integration

Lotus Lotus Sametime 8.5Sametime 8.5

MeetingsMeetings

Voice/Video ChatsVoice/Video Chats

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Starting an AV call from contact list

Same user experience as Sametime 8.0.2

Multiple names are selected from the contact list for a call –

Select “Start Call/Video with Selected Contact”

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The audio & video call window

● Resize video window● Maximize video window to

full screen● Show/Hide own video

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Joining the audio portion of a meetingClick to join audioOn hover: users can tell which, a/v channels are available to them here.User can choose how their audio becomes engaged.

1. Out of the box, Sametime includes VoIP audio, or

2. If customer has deployed an integrated 3rd party audio conf bridge adapter to Sametime, Sametime users can also join via their telephone

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Joining a video meeting

Click to start/stop video

List of participants: • Shows speaker notification• Connection status• Ability to associate online

meeting ID with caller ID for those who did not use the UI to join the audio session

• Video enabled – shows who video is switching amongst and who is currently on screen for you

Call and video controls

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Sametime 8.5 audio & video conferencing interoperability

Voice/ Voice/ Video callsVideo calls

TelepresenceTelepresenceRoom Video Room Video

Conferencing Conferencing systemssystems

H.323H.323

ISDNISDNPartner Partner delivered delivered

connectorsconnectors

MeetingsMeetings

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Sametime 8.5 video conferencing integration

Sametime Connect is a full video client for 3rd party MCU's.

What's new in Sametime 8.5● Sametime Connect Client● Online Meetings● Audio / Video ● Web Browser Clients & Web 2.0 APIs● Sametime Systems Console

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Sametime for the web

● Zero-download clients● Rich user interface● API geared to Web programmer

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Sametime 8.5 browser-based instant messaging • User presence status message• Contact list• Adding contacts and groups• Quick Find for contact list• Business cards• Location • 1 to1 chat• N-way chat with invitation • Sending announcements• Rich text • Emoticons• Public IM presence chat via Sametime Gateway • Click to call (via 3rd party telephony partners)• Instant Meetings• Web application integration APIs• PC, Mac, and iPhone support

Custom Styles

Easily customizable with style sheets

Browser-based iPhone instant messaging

Web 2.0 API's to communications-enable web apps

● SDKs & Toolkits enable Sametime services to be embedded in other desktop applications

● Web 2.0 APIs allow developers to use standard tools to embed Sametime services in their web applications

● Browser chat and meeting clients can be customized through style sheets

What's new in Sametime 8.5● Sametime Connect Client● Online Meetings● Audio / Video ● Web Browser Clients & Web 2.0 APIs● Sametime Systems Console

Embedded Applications, including Web, Portal etc.

Note: Logical servers shown. May be combined physically depending on user workload and network design

UnifiedTelephony

LotusSametimeProxy

Enterprise Phone System

SIP, RTP SIP, RTP

VP

VP VP

VP VP

HTTP HTTP

HTTP

LotusSametimeGateway

External IM Communities

SIP, XMPP

SIP

Presence &Instant MsgMeetings Advanced

Server

MediaManager

SIP, TCSPI

EnterpriseA/V conf

bridges/MCU/ end points

Lotus Sametime ClientsPC (Windows®, Mac, Linux) Web

browser, mobile devices

Sametime Logical System Level Architecture

* Future release of server required

Lotus SametimePresence/IM

Lotus SametimeMeetings Lotus Sametime

Advanced*

Lotus Sametime Media Manager

Lotus Sametime Unified

Telephony *

Lotus Sametime

Gateway

System Console: Centralized configuration and policy management

Backup

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Sametime 8.5 Meetings – Installed Client/Browser Client Feature Comparison● Installed Meeting Client is required for:

▬ Client-side document conversions of .ppt and .odp files▬ Appshare remote control capabilities (peer-to-peer appshare only)▬ Appshare hosting capability on Mac▬ Drag/drop support or UI/dialog support for inviting participants▬ Drag/drop support for adding file content▬ Meetings recording▬ Source highlighter tool and pointer tool▬ Create or send polls (anyone can respond)▬ Screen capture tool▬ Paste from clipboard▬ Browsing history for the library▬ Audio/Video (browser support is planned for future Lotus Sametime release)