The document discusses video conferencing and collaboration solutions from LifeSize. It describes how the way people work is changing with more remote/mobile workers and dispersed teams. It highlights the benefits of video conferencing for improved collaboration. The document then summarizes LifeSize's approach to video collaboration with its Smart Video platform, which aims to provide an intuitive user experience through features like name dialing, call escalation, and mobility. It also discusses LifeSize's video conferencing hardware and software products.
Hello, I’m _____ with ______________________.
Today, I’m pleased to introduce the ultimate communication experience.
During this meeting, we’ll address three simple questions:
Why video?
Why LifeSize?
What is unique about LifeSize’s approach to video collaboration?
In the past few years we, as a company, have experienced big changes. We now have legions of remote workers, there are fewer physical offices, and work hours are, well, flexible, and sometimes round the clock.
Plus, our customers and suppliers are spread around the world.
In this global business environment, the need to reach out and build strong relationships with our partners, suppliers, development teams, investors, and customers is more important than ever.
What are your challenges, and what is important to you?
Different industries and work environments have different needs. Video conferencing helps address all of them.
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We are a visual society. A UCLA study shows that 97% of all effective communication is nonverbal. It’s not just about what you say, but how you look while saying it. Video gets your message across.
For all types and sizes of business, wherever you are, high definition video conferencing will bring people together simply and conveniently for more effective collaboration, building the connected relationships needed to succeed.
Link to video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebocZm8JtCM
Additional video – more casual
Conference Call in Real Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ
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LifeSize enables you to reach out and effectively build engaging interpersonal relationships with all of those people whose performance is critical to your success, simply and from wherever you are.
LifeSize combines quality and simplicity for an ultimate communication experience that is simple to implement, use, and manage. LifeSize video is so flexible that you can use it in the way that best suits your needs and invest in only what you need, ensuring that you make the most of your IT budget. LifeSize is dedicated to continuously pushing the boundaries in research and design to deliver solutions that are easier to use, simpler to deploy, and faster to adopt—so you can focus on your business, communications, and relationships, not on the technology that lives behind them.
Our latest innovation is what we call Smart Video.
Just like smartphones fundamentally redefined cell phones, Smart Video redefines video conferencing by radically simplifying the user experience. Feature-rich HD video available at the touch of a button means a conferencing experience that far exceeds what is provided with other video conferencing systems.
The Smart Video experience strips away all of the complicated processes inherent in video today so that you can now connect more efficiently and focus on what matters—your business.
LifeSize UVC works behind the scenes to link meeting room systems, laptops, tablets and smartphones for an exceptional and frustration-free user experience. Name-based calling, seamless escalation to group calls, presence, instant messaging, content sharing, recording and live streaming make it so simple and intuitive for users to connect and collaborate with each other that they will never need support and training again.
Let’s take a look at what Smart Video means in your day-to-day.
How often do you dial an actual phone number? Most people dial from a directory or a speed-dial listing. LifeSize has brought this capability to video conferencing.
Thanks to a unified, searchable directory, you no longer have to remember or type in ridiculously long IP addresses to reach your peers.
Simply scroll through your contact list and see who’s online and available and click on their name to reach out to them. Very simple and intuitive.
Most important, the directory will always be up to date as it’s centrally managed and prepopulated.
And what about meeting with multiple people? Until now, when starting a meeting you had to make a conscious choice – is this just a person to person call or do I need to include more participants?
With our solution, you don’t need to worry anymore. Simply look for another person and add him or her to the conversation. You don’t have to disconnect your call to go find a meeting room or contact IT to set up a scheduled meeting. You can move from a two-person call to a multiparty call with total ease.
Simply access the directory, find your additional party, and click to call. If someone calls you to join a discussion, all you have to do is click accept. It really is that simple.
Equally as simple is accepting an incoming call. A pop-up box will ask you to add the caller, which will merge them into your existing meeting. Even if the calling party is already a multiparty call, it will merge the two meetings.
Just in case you don’t want to merge these calls, you can ignore the incoming call too. To prevent callers from disturbing your meeting, you can also select Do Not Disturb.
If anyone leaves the meeting, it will continue, even if the host (that is the person who escalated the call to the bridge) hangs up.
Better yet, once the meeting gets down to two people, it will renegotiate the call back to a point-to-point call, releasing the bridge ports for others to use.
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Here are some more features of the multiparty meeting escalation. When receiving a call, the caller ID will be displayed to the user. If the incoming call is a multiparty call, you will see the additional participants’ IDs as well.
And what about people outside your organization who don’t have access to video conferenincing?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could send them an invitation and they could easily join a call?
Today, it’s as simple as sending them an email.
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Have you ever missed a very important call because you were not sitting in your office? How annoying is that?
With the ring-all devices feature, this will never happen again. With all your devices registered to your account, whenever a call comes in, they’ll all ring and you can easily pick up the call from the one you prefer, even on the go.
So you are in your office having a very important meeting with clients. You realize that you have another meeting at another client’s location and you really have to get moving or else you will be late for that meeting. You are forced to disconnect from the current meeting and call back in from another location or device.
Not so with Live Call Transfer. This is a a unique function that allows a user with multiple devices registered to his or her account to transfer a call between devices at the push of a button.
If you receive a call using your video systems, you can quickly take over this call on your laptop or mobile phone, and your client meeting continues uninterrupted!
You can remain connected while mobile. Mute your video or audio as you travel, and please, don’t drive distracted. If possible, give someone else the wheel, or take a taxi.
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And how many times have you received a call from someone you know would be better served by another person?
With the ability to escalate the call into a multiparty meeting, you simply press the Add button, find the right person in the directory, and bring her or him into the call. Once the call connects and you make the introductions, you can hang up, leaving the other two people to carry on the discussion.
With the warm transfer, you can make sure the person is available by checking their presence status in the directory and then use the warm hand off in the transfer process. This ensures that the right people connect every time.
Companies are looking for high-quality, secure calling from a desktop or mobile device. With LifeSize, you can affordably extend mobile video calling to every employee, who can use a Mac, PC or more than 50 iOS and Android devices to connect via video to one another or to video endpoints. Imagine the possibilities—team members securely collaborating or sales reps connecting with their customers and their home offices or on the go on their tablets.
The power and simplicity of our streaming and recording solution works seamlessly with your video system. Users can effortlessly record their videos, presentations or both.
Users will be pleased with the ease of use. But Smart Video also makes the IT admins happy, delivering all the powerful features they need to deliver the best communication experience to your organization.
Our solution is simple, ready to go and scalable to grow with your business.
Auto-provisioning allows simultaneous deployment of multiple video systems in no time. Once the system is plugged in, on the network, and found by the infrastructure, the provisioning details entered by the video administrator prior to deploying the system are automatically loaded. All the user has to do is find a contact in the unified directory and make a call. It is that easy!
You’ll also love the clustering feature in our call control solution. It allows you to connect multiple LifeSize multiparty calls to our call control solution, and if one of them fails during an escalated call, the call is automatically transferred to another LifeSize multiparty solution and continues uninterrupted.
But wait! There is more! We all hate complex dial strings. They are hard to remember and difficult to key in. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily see all company contacts in a unified directory from your video system or mobile client?
It’s your lucky day. All of this and much more is possible today in our call control solution.
For instance, a gatekeeper and SIP registrar with an advanced call-routing engine let you easily create dial plans and handle calls inside and outside your organization. Plus, this allows flexible integration with your existing infrastructure. We have one more key feature to tout: our solution also comes with built-in NAT/firewall traversal and embedded encryption for secure video collaboration.
So dismiss prior prejudices, toss everything you’ve heard about the annoyances of video conferencing, and embrace the LifeSize Smart Video experience.
It’s exceptionally simple, intuitive and frustration-free. All the features you need are instantly available from your video system or mobile device so you can forget about the technology and focus on the communication at hand.
As a plus, it’s also easy to deploy and scale so that you purchase only what you need.
That’s Smart Video. That’s LifeSize.
The beginning of Smart Video is our LifeSize Icon video system.
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We’ve designed this system to be all about making the user experience much easier and more intuitive so that people who have shied away from using video due to cost and complexity can now embrace it.
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Why is this solution different from any codec or endpoint that users may be looking at today? Those are stand-alone systems that can’t easily adapt to users’ changing needs. We blurred the line between video system and infrastructure, delivering a truly connected experience at an unbeatable value.
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The system is very intuitive and simple to use. With our sleek remote in hand, you navigate the UI with ease. The icons clearly convey each function, making it quicker to get into a call. And that’s what it’s all about—quickly and simply making video calls.
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LifeSize Icon is as easy to use as a smartphone. You get simplified, frustration-free video conferencing that your employees use constantly, and they achieve their objectives in each call, which results in higher efficiency, better customer service and competitive advantage. That’s a win for everyone.
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On top of that, you can extend video calling to your mobile workforce and be reached on almost any device thanks to our Mobile Clients.
On the other side, you have the LifeSize UVC applications: the behind-the-scenes products that help you do more with your video conferencing systems.
The LifeSize UVC applications are presized, preinstalled and bundled to give you all of the key applications you need to deliver the ultimate communication experience to your organization.
The bundles come in three sizes—small, medium and large—each designed to provide optimal performance for up to 100, 250 or 500 users.
And the LifeSize UVC bundles are scalable to grow with your business, protecting your investment.
Another way to look at the previous example is in this network topology slide. Aside from the physical endpoint, you only need to purchase the properly sized UVC Bundle.
To do the same with Polycom, you would need to purchase the following:
Polycom RealPresence MCU
RealPresence Access Director
Video Border Proxy
Polycom CMA
Polycom DMA
RealPresence Collaboration Server
RealPresence Capture Series
RealPresence Media Manager
Cool, huh? Let us show it with a live demo. Smart Video is all about innovation and simplicity.
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Links to videos
Frustration-Free Video Conferencing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfixVw-x3pI
Mobile Video Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ib8nmmoj8
When you choose to partner with LifeSize, you join an outstanding group of organizations that span every business sector. From technology to health care and education to financial and public services, we have years of experience in helping businesses do more over video than they ever thought possible.
LifeSize video collaboration technology is truly changing the way the world communicates, but don’t just take our word for it. Here is what press, analysts and customers are saying about our award-winning solutions.
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Thank you for your time.
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As always, I’m happy to answer your questions.
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LifeSize UVC ClearSea, the most complete solution for PC, Mac and mobile video collaboration that lets you deliver a truly connected experience to every worker, in every location, on every device to enable increased collaboration and maximize productivity.
It’s packed with powerful tools such as:
Presence—shows when people in your directory are online and available
Text chat
Content sharing—documents, spreadsheets, schematics, pictures, videos
A cool invite-a-guest feature—make video calls with friends and family for free, forever
It’s mobile video calling at a level of quality that will simply astound you. That’s the promise of the ultimate communication experience, only from LifeSize.
And there is more. LifeSize UVC ClearSea comes with some cool features for your IT adminstrator too.
It’s a gatekeeper and a SIP registrar, and it lets you easily create dial plans and handle calls inside and outside your organization. Plus, this allows flexible integration with your existing infrastructure.
Our solution also comes with built-in NAT/firewall traversal and embedded encryption for secure video collaboration.
Do you often find yourself in a meeting where you need to loop a disparate team of people into a conversation to help a customer, solve a business issue or get a question answered? If this is a typical scenario, then our multiparty video conferencing solution is for you. Via multiparty calling, you can connect with one or more sites and even bring in remote and mobile participants while on a video call.
The LifeSize streaming and recording solution is perfect for streaming live or recorded video content to large groups inside and outside your organization. Not only can you broadcast and record HD-quality presentations, all-hands meetings, lectures, and training sessions at the press of one button, you can also reach even broader audiences in more places without stressing your network or your budget.
Last but not least, let’s take a look at the LifeSize video network management and video-call scheduling solution. It gives IT administrators the ability to visualize and effectively manage the entire video network with all video endpoints and infrastructure devices from a single intuitive web interface.