Polycom enables
Alcatel Instant Video Solution
by
combining the power Alcatel IP Telephony
with Polycom Unified Collaboration Solutions
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Outline
Opportunity and solution integration summary
Customer benefits
Alcatel IP telephony solution overview
Polycom unified collaboration solution overview
How is Polycom enhancing Alcatel IP telephony solution
Joint solution overview
RAS 200A – SIP conferencing application server
PVX VOA desktop client
Features
Platform support
Roadmap
Questions
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Opportunity and solution integration summary
Polycom and Alcatel partner to deliver converged voice
and video collaboration solution
The joint solution integrates Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise
IP communications platform, the award-winning Alcatel IP
Touch phones with Polycom's industry-leading MGC
multipoint bridges, VSX video conferencing systems, and
PVX desktop client over SIP
The result, Alcatel Instant Video solution
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Customer benefits
Leverage investment in existing telephony infrastructure
while empowering users with video capabilities
Seamless integration with existing infrastructure
End users can use familiar telephony commands (Hold,
Transfer, Merge etc.) to manage video calls. No new
learning
Designed to operate over SIP protocol
Interoperability with legacy H.320 environments
Lower total cost of ownership through a single integrated
solution
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Solution overview - Polycom components
Desktop Video
End Points
MCU Video Bridges
RAS 200A
SIP
conferencing
Application
Server
MGC Family
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PVX VOA
Video
Room Systems
V500 & VSX Family
Solution overview - Alcatel components
IP Communication
Server
IPtouch
OmniPCX Enterprise
phones
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Application
Framework
Unified
Communication
API
Instant Video
Application
Server (Omega)
How is Polycom enhancing Alcatel IP
telephony solution
Scalable infrastructure to escalate a
P2P audio phone call to a MP video
session over SIP
High performance desktop video
client (PVX VOA) – SIP
Desktop client
Conference
rooms
Alcatel IP Touch and
Enterprise OmniPCX
Scalability, Availability, Security - Infrastructure
SIP Conference
Application server
SIP and H.320 network
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MCU/Bridge
Convergence of conference roombased systems (VSX) with desktop
conferencing (PVX VOA)
Control and monitor a unified
conference from an Alcatel IP Touch
phone
On-demand conferencing
Flexibility to choose mostappropriate audio/video endpoint for
communication
Solution overview - Architecture
Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise
Alcatel
Instant Video
Application
Server
Audio
User A
Audio
User B
Vidéo
Vidéo
API
Polycom
RAS 200A
PVX VOA
PVX VOA
Polycom
MGC
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RAS 200A – A SIP conferencing application
server
Polycom RAS 200A is a SIP conferencing application server / B2BUA that
creates video sessions between video clients (VSX and PVX VOA) and
MGC
Acts on Alcatel Instant Video Application Server requests for video session
creation, hold, un-hold, tear down
Report back to Alcatel Instant Video Application Server video user status
Selects MGC to host conference
Video clients (PVX VOA, VSX) register with RAS 200A (auto discover), get
SIP server address, send status change reports
Imposes license policy to control number of concurrent video end points
usage
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RAS 200A – Functionality, interfaces, protocols
and API
Alcatel Instant Video Application Server to Polycom RAS 200A
interface is a proprietary Polycom-Alcatel API based on Web
Services (XML over HTTP)
Video endpoints to RAS 200A registration and end point reporting
is a Polycom protocol running over HTTP
All video sessions established by RAS 200A (to video endpoints
and MGC) use SIP with RAS 200A acting as a B2BUA
Video endpoints register and authenticate with SIP server
All SIP calls between RAS 200A and video endpoints go through
Alcatel SIP server.
RAS 200A and MGC hold direct SIP calls, and not through the
server.
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PVX VOA desktop client
A high quality desktop video client
PVX™ VOA integration with Alcatel IP touch phones
enables users to start a video call from their IP Touch
phone.
Once the call is established, audio flows through the IP
Touch phone while video is displayed on the desktop
using Polycom PVX™ VOA client.
Works with standard USB/Webcam camera
Supports SIP
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Features - P2P audio to desktop video
Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise
Alcatel Instant Video
Application Server
Audio
Vidéo
User B
User A
API
RAS 200A
PVX VOA
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SIP
PVX VOA
Audio
Vidéo
Features - P2P audio to room system video
User B
User A
OmniPCX Enterprise
Alcatel Instant Video
Application Server
Audio
Vidéo
Audio
Vidéo
Audio
Vidéo
API
RAS 200A
SIP
VSX
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Features - Merge 2 calls into a 3-way conference
User A calls user B
Puts user B on hold
Call user C
Merge the 2 calls into a 3-way conf with A,B and C on their IP Touch
and associated PVX VOA clients on MGC.
B
C
A
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Features - 3-way audio to video conference
Audio
Alcatel Instant Video
Application Server
RAS 200A
User A
API
Audio
User B
Alcatel
OmniPCX
User C
Audio
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Vidéo
SIP
Features - Join me
Using VSX internal MCU
Establish a call between managed VSX and an external
device (ISDN)
Use VSX IP Touch to call another IPTouch user
Escalate the audio call to video joining the “external call”
External ISDN
VSX
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Platform support
Alcatel Instant Video Solution R1.0 Components
Supplier
Version
IP Touch (4068/38/28)
Alcatel
R4.0
PVX VOA desktop client
Polycom
R8.0.2
VSX (Meeting room equipment)
Polycom
R8.5.2
RAS 200A
Polycom
R1.0
Instant Video
Alcatel
R1.0
Alcatel
R2.2 (PRS R1.2)
OmniPCX Enterprise
Alcatel
R7.1
MGC
Polycom
R7.5
Endpoints
Application
Web Services
API Framework, (including PRS and OTS), Instant video
application server
Infrastructure
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Roadmap – Release 1.0
Escalate a point to point audio call to a video session
Escalate 3-way audio call to a video call
Join me – Interoperability with remote H.320 sites using VSX
embedded MCU
IP Touch telephony features (hold, transfer, inquiry call) reflected
in video domain
Presence enabled – user's video presence reflected on IP Touch
phone
Up to 500 registered video end points on one RAS 200A server
In P2P calls, up to 50 concurrent video sessions with a maximum
100 users
In MP calls, up to 50 users concurrently participating in video
conferences on Polycom MGC bridges
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Questions
Q&A
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