Introducting Exchange Conferencing Service

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Introducing Exchange Conferencing Services
John GoodacreProgram ManagerMicrosoft
Corporation
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Whats Happening Today

• What our customers are doing today
• Virtual team meetings
• Ad-hoc online meetings
• Customer support
• Training
• Executive chats
• Conference calls - back channel
• Tools NetMeeting, Windows Media, Exchange 5.5
  Chat

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Customer Demands

• End-users
• Easy to use
• Improved structured meeting experience
• Company-to-company collaboration
• IT administrators
• Integrated with Exchange
• Centralized resource management
• Reliability
• Conference scalability

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Target Scenario

• Enterprise-customer
• Geographically distributed teams
• Structured meetings
• Scheduled ahead of time
• Agenda-driven
• Application-centric
• Small team working on common document, e.g.,
  review of financial data
• Interactive presentations, e.g., PowerPoint show,
  with chat/whiteboard

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Demo

• Video Conference including
• broadcast and archive

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Focus Areas

• Client experience
• Conference Management Service
• Conferencing Technologies
• Data conferencing
• Audio/Video conferencing
• Platform for additional technologies
• Administration of Conferencing Service

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Focus Areas
CLIENT EXPERIENCE
Technology Providers
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Client Experience

• Schedule virtual meeting rooms
• Consistent calendar metaphor
• Join conference
• Click Join Conference from Outlook 2000
  reminder
• Open-Access Join from URL
• Participation
• Hide underlying technology
• Embedded into Web page

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Data Conferencing Service

• Integrated into Conference Management Service
• T.120 multi-point control unit (MCU)
• Application sharing, whiteboarding, chat
• Server broadcast data to clients
• Conference persistence
• Additional services
• Topology creation, bridging firewalls
• Automatic MCU load-balance/fail-over
• Access control, security, encryption

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MCU Server Deployment Sample
Conference Manager
Backbone
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Two-Site Deployment Sample
Redmond
Site 1
Internal Attendees
Public MCU
MCUs
External Attendees
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Video Conferencing Service

• Integrate into Conference Management Service
• Multi-party audio-video conferencing
• Participants (optionally) broadcast their
  audiovideo
• Participants receive, mix and render all other
  participants
• Meeting size limited by client

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Conference Management Service

• Unified conferencing client experience
• Platform for conference management
• Control meeting lifetime
• Support Conference Technology Providers (data,
  telephone, audio/video)
• Integrated reservation and calendaring
• Management of Meeting Resources
• Scheduling - Publish free/busy
• Refer client to conferences

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Platform

• Consistent scheduling metaphor
• Client capability and identity abstraction
• Abstract resource properties
• Framework CTP implementation

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Administration

• Active Directory Resources
• Defines the virtual room
• Groups technology providers
• Defines room properties
• Exchange Integrated Administration
• Remote administration
• Extensible by 3rd party providers
• Administrator groups

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Latitude Communications

• Mike Fratesi
• Director Product Management
• 408-988-7260
• mikef_at_latitude.com
• www.latitude.com

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Latitude MeetingPlace
USER ACCESS Schedule and attend meetings
Browser/E-Mail/Groupware
Phone
Recorded voice files
Data conference
Documents
Voice conference
MeetingPlace Conference Server
ARCHIVE/ RETRIEVAL Record and access meeting
content
REAL-TIME COLLABORATION Share and edit
documents
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MeetingPlace ExchangeFunctionality

• MeetingPlace - voice conferencing
• Exchange - data conferencing
• MeetingPlace is an Exchange Conference
  Technology Provider
• Integrated voice and data reservations and
  calendaring
• Publish free/busy for voice and data conferencing
  resources
• Resource administration through Exchange

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Architecture OverviewMeetingPlace Exchange
Platinum
Meeting Agent
MMC
Conference Profiles
MeetingPlace Conference Server
Conference Manager

• MeetingPlace Exchange Gateway and CTP
• pass free/busy times
• authenticate scheduler
• manage MeetingPlace
• resources - start/end

T.120 - Data conference technology provider
MeetingPlace Voice conference technology
provider
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MeetingPlace ExchangeAdded functionality

• In-session conference control and security
• Breakout sessions, lock meeting, outdial
• Schedule and attend from phone
• Important for mobile workers
• Meeting recording and playback

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Demo
MeetingPlace Exchange
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Architecture OverviewScheduling a meeting
Schedule directly from Outlook 2000
Book resource
Active Directory
Attendees Calendars
Invite users and resources from directory
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Architecture OverviewJoining a meeting
Join Conference directly from calendar reminder
Office 2000
IIS
ASP
Internet Client
T.120 Client
Open Access
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Summary

• Exchange enables online meetings
• Creates a simple user experience
• Empowers the administrator
• Open, Extensible Platform for online meetings
• Exchange Data and Video Conferencing
• 3rd party Telephone, H320, H323, etc.

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Call To Action!

• Users
• Move your meetings online with Platinum
• Administrators
• Deploy the Conferencing Services
• Conferencing ISV
• Consider integrating as a Technology Provider

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