Polycom/ Microsoft Alliance “Developing Greater Context”

1. Polycom/ Microsoft Alliance“Developing Greater Context”

2. Quick Review of What We Announced • Multi-Year Strategic alliance - Deliver rich collaboration solutions across communications devices, applications and services • Coordinate standards activities and roadmapsfor RTC capabilities: • SIP Based Technology • Integrated Collaboration Applications • Internal deployment of the integrated, co-developed solutions inside Polycom and Microsoft • Intent to Cross Licenseandleverage existing Microsoft and Polycom technology investments

3. The Vision – Presence Applications Everywhere • The Polycom and Microsoft Alliance broadens the audience for Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing by: • Simplifying • Standardizing, and • Embedding • The IM UI with Video Presence and Control into everyday applications

4. Add Video Device Presence to People Presence Establish Conferencing Group/ + Meeting Room Characteristics Associate my IM Identity to one or many Endpoints Initiate Point to Point or Multipoint Conference Today - Launch Point to Point + Multi-Point from Messenger

5. Tomorrow • Buddy, Video Device Presence and Video Device Control: • From Messenger • To Every Day Office and Enterprise Applications • Enabling higher productivity from users’ favorite applications

6. Benefits • Increase Productivity and Effectiveness • Enable the Video Collaboration Option to be available for all Live Communication Server (LCS) users • From Microsoft Applications - a mail message, a spreadsheet, or a shared web page • Maximize the IT investment by Implementing an integrated set of applications and technologies : • Microsoft - LCS, Active Directory, SIP/SIMPLE, Office, SharePoint, and • Polycom UCC – VSX, MGC, WebOffice, Path Navigator, SoundPoint IP……

7. Based On SIP- What is SIP ? A Signaling Protocol Usable for Wider Range of Applications • Name translation and user location • Mechanism to ensure that the call reaches the called party wherever they are located, ensuring that details of the nature of the call (Session) are supported. • Feature negotiation • This allows the parties to agree on the features supported - recognizing that not all the parties can support the same level of features. • Call participant management • New parties can be added or removed from a session, or the session transferred to a different device • Call feature changes • A user should be able to change the call characteristics during the course of the call, e.g. modality change

8. The SIP Vision: Convergence of new Applications and Services Telephone PC PDA Cell Phone Tablet PC With Polycom, SIP, H.320, and H.323 Products can operate together Personal Video Group Video Service and Application Convergence (SIP/SIMPLE) Wireless and Mobility: Wireless Village, 3GPP Internet: Web HTTP, XML SOAP, UDDI, WDSL Desktop: Instant Messaging Presence/ Notification Telecom IP Telephony MGCP, H.323, SIP Voice/Video/Data Conferencing H.323, H.320, T.120 ALG, Protocol Gateways (SIP<->H.323, etc.) Hosted IP-PBX, IP-Centrex Infrastructure Video & Application Networks Network Convergence: IP

9. Microsoft + Polycom = Winning Combination • Leader enterprise software (IM, desktop) + Leader voice/video • Continuing innovation of Collaboration Capabilities • TV quality video (award winning VSX platform) • near CD quality with Siren 14, StereoSurround audio • AES security • Ability to further new Standards, while Integrating with Existing installed products - (SIP and H.323)

10. SummaryAn Industry Turning Point • Ubiquitous , Enterprise Grade Presence and Messaging – Now combined with Hi-Quality Audio/ Video Applications - • Impact – More uses of integrated Applications