Administrator's Guide for the Polycom RealPresence Group Series
Polycom supports the following features in Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and 2013:
● Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)
● Centralized Conferencing Control Protocol (CCCP); this feature is available only with the optional
Lync Interoperability License key
● Federated presence
● The Microsoft real-time video (RTV) codec; this feature is available only with the optional Lync
Interoperability License key
For more information about this and other Microsoft/Polycom interoperability considerations, refer to the
Polycom Unified Communications Deployment Guide for Microsoft Environments.
If your organization deploys multiple Lync Server pools, a Polycom RealPresence Group system must be
registered to the same pool to which the system's user account is assigned.
Configure SIP Settings for Integration with the Telepresence Interoperability
Protocol (TIP)
When SIP is enabled on a RealPresence Group system that has the TIP option, the system can interoperate
with TIP endpoints.
Points to note about TIP:
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Polycom RealPresence Group systems cannot host multipoint calls while in a SIP (TIP) call.
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SIP (TIP) calls must connect at a call speed of 1 Mbps or higher.
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Only TIP version 7 is supported.
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In a TIP call, only XGA content at 5 fps is supported. The following content sources are not
supported in TIP calls:
USB content from the Polycom Touch Control
People+Content™ IP
For more information about Polycom support for the TIP protocol, refer to the Polycom Unified
Communications Deployment Guide for Cisco Environments.
You cannot configure TIP without purchasing and installing a Telepresence Interoperability Protocol
(TIP) option key code.
RTV and Lync-Hosted Conference Support
To use RTV in a Lync-hosted conference, you must have the Lync Interoperability License key enabled on
your RealPresence Group system.
For more information about configuring your Lync Server video settings for RTV, refer to the Polycom Unified
Communications Deployment Guide for Microsoft Environments.
AS-SIP Settings
RealPresence Group series systems support the Assured Services Session Initiation Protocol (AS-SIP), as
defined by the Unified Capabilities Requirements (UCR) technical standards for telecommunication
switching equipment developed by the DoD and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). AS-SIP is
the term used to describe the DoD version of SIP used as part of its initiative to build a reliable and secure
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