Product Overview; Product Features - Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual

Product Overview

The RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800, 2000, 4000, and Virtual Edition Multipoint Control
Units (MCUs) are high performance, scalable MCUs that provide a feature-rich, multipoint audio and video
conferencing experience.

Product Features

The RealPresence Collaboration Server supports the following features audio and video conferencing
features.
Supported Features for Conferencing
Feature Name
Polycom Open Collaboration
Network
Presence in Microsoft Office
Communications, Lync, or Skype
for Business
Cascading Conferences
Content Sharing
Video Preview
Polycom, Inc.
Description
The Polycom Open Collaboration Network (POCN) enables Polycom,
Microsoft, and Cisco users, within their own environment, to participate in the
same conference running on a RealPresence Collaboration Server.
The RealPresence Collaboration Server also natively interoperates with Cisco
Telepresence Systems and Polycom Telepresence and video conferencing
endpoints, ensuring optimum quality multiscreen, multipoint calls.
Registration and Presence enables Microsoft Lync or Skype for Business users
to see user and meeting room status (Available, Busy, or Offline). Users can
connect to these contacts and resources directly from the buddy list.
The RealPresence Collaboration Server can merge multiple conferences into a
single conference. This enables RealPresence Collaboration Servers to split a
larger number of participants and resources.
Microsoft Lync or Skype for Business users can also connect (via Polycom
RealConnect) to a RealPresence Collaboration Server meeting room to a
conference running on the Microsoft AVMCU.
The RealPresence Collaboration Server supports sharing of documents,
presentations, videos, or other content with conference participants.
HD H.264 Content and H.264 Content for Cascading links allow conference
participants to receive high-quality content in both standard conferences and
cascaded conferences.
The RealPresence Collaboration Server enables you to preview video and the
video quality sent and received by participants and the conference. This
enables users to identify possible quality degradation. The RealPresence
Collaboration Server supports H.264 High Profile with video preview.
1