MGC Webinar Service is your Best Bet

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MGC WebinarService is your Best Bet

• Charles Wiseman
• Derrick Fitzgerald

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We Want You Back

• With budgets tight for new equipment, maximizing
  the performance and reliability of your existing
  MGC is as important as ever. 
• Polycom Support offerings are designed as a cost
  effective way to leverage your investments while
  receiving all necessary technical assistance to
  keep the equipment running at full capacity.
•  POLYCOM recommends the purchase a Support
  Agreement to ensure your MGC performs at the
  highest levels
• Support Agreements are Investment Protection
• Today and the future

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Service is your Best Option

• Polycom will only accept new Maintenance
  Agreements for equipment that is at the most
  current software release levels
• If your Maintenance Agreement has expired or,
  you have never been under a Maintenance
  Agreement, and are not at the most current
  software release level you will be required to
  purchase the current software license before
  Polycom will accept your request for a
  Maintenance Agreement
• Software upgrades are offered separately on a
  license fee basis at the then current list price.
  This license does not entitle you to future
  upgrades. It is only to purchase a current
  version of the software.

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Greatest Return on Your Investment

• Webinar SUPPORT and SOFTWARE UPGRADE OFFER
• To help you minimize the cost to upgrade to the
  current software release and to become eligible
  to purchase a Maintenance Agreement we are
  offering the following special software upgrade
  pricing
• Example 1, if you are at revision 6x the cost of
  the license alone is 15,000
• For this special promotion we are offering the
  software for 1,000 on the MGC 50 and 1,800 on
  the MGC 100
• This represents a typical savings of over 10,000
  on a full license price!!!

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MGC today.
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Value of upgrading your MGC

• An upgrade to release 7.x helps prepare your
  conferencing network to
• Deliver new service offerings
• Reduce your time spent on managing conferences
• Improve video / audio conferencing quality
• Improve Security
• Maximize your companys investment
• New technology

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New Conferencing Service Offerings

• Ad-hoc enhancements
• Virtual Meeting rooms using up to 2000 defined
  rooms on the MGC or using the MGC API to
  integrate into enterprise wide DB
• Improved Entry queues
• Added Presence based solutions
• Full featured Audio
• Improved Operator support, Chair across multiple
  cascaded conferences, G.729a
• Unified - Added SIP to
• Audio - Video, IP (H.323 or SIP) or ISDN / MPI
• Personal Video (desktop on-demand video)
• Version 7and 7.5 support for Microsoft and Nortel
• Version 7.03 for Avaya

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Audio and Video Quality Improvement

• Video
• H.264 Up to 30 FPS H.264 standard support in
  video switched, continuous presence and gateway
  conferences
• Highest Common Enhancements Additional
  parameter support for H.264, H.263 annexes (F, N,
  T, I), Pro-Motion, VGA/SVGA/XGA resolutions
• Content
• H.239 Full standards support for H.239.
  Supports mixed Polycom PC and H.239 conferences
• 4CIF to XGA video resolution graphics support in
  mixed conferences with different endpoint
  capabilities
• H.323 PC H.239 Cascade People Content and/or
  H.239 is supported in IP star Cascaded
  voice-switched conferences
• Audio
• SilenceIT Patent pending feature that will
  automatically mute endpoints generating music or
  other audio interferences with the conference
• Audio Error Resilience - MGC capability to
  generate synthesized audio to replace missing
  audio packet.

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Audio Features
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Video Features
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Reduce management time- Spend less time setting
up and managing conferences

• Updated Transcoding capabilities for
• Audio H.320, H.323 and SIP participants all in
  the same conference
• Video includes H.264
• Content H.239 and XGA resolution
• auto option allows a set and forget approach
• Improvement of resource allocation
• No longer have to plan the speeds and feeds for
  video and ISDN port utilization
• Cascading
• Content H.239 on ISDN links and IP links
• ISDN and IP links now can cascade over IP links
  or ISDN links, with content support
• Auto Cascade for multiple location, single user
  experience, with low set up effort
• Reliability/Manageability for H.323 conferences
• RTCP Monitoring - Enhanced monitoring
  capabilities for IP conferences
• Enhanced status reporting per media channel
  (audio, video, content)
• DHCP - IP media interface can now obtain its IP
  information address via DHCP
• DNS Enhancement to support SIP
• Link DNS name to an IP interface
• NAT Traversal
• Static Mapping, each internal IP address (IP
  board) is translated into a specific external IP
  address.

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Management
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Content
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H323 features
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Improved Security

• Security
• AES for media encryption
• Updated CDR to include AES and chair indication
  field
• Removable hard drive
• Added Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for MGC Manager
• Ad hoc users can be verified through MGC API into
  enterprise employee database

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Maximizes your companys investment

• By upgrading your conferencing equipment, you
  can
• Gain extra capacity and expansion capability
• New hardware - ISDN, IP, Video and Audio modules
• More ports
• Better utilization of the ports
• improved dynamic resource management algorithms
  (video and ISDN ports)
• Conference on a port
• Better system utilization of the ports (span
  modules)
• Better price per port
• Mix and match conferencing equipment
• The MGC now supports even more ITU standards such
  as H.264, H.239, AES, G.729a, and G.722.1
• This enables you to utilize standard compliant
  equipment in the network
• Expanded transcoding algorithms to support
  endpoint variations
• Some assistance
• Weve cut Video module list price by 50
• IP 48 Audio 48 module list price by 20
• Offer substantial module trade-in program -
  rebates

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New Hardware
We also have the plus versions of the Video8
and Audio
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New technology

• IP SIP
• Although H.323 is dominant and will continue to
  be deployed, most of the personal video
  deployments will be based on SIP. This offers
  more flexibility for new types of services such
  as IM/Chat and multipoint Video integration one
  click
• High Definition Video
• Following the trends in the consumer industry,
  high definition video ( 9 to 1 ratio to CIF
  resolution) is now supported on the MGC
• Up to 90 HD endpoints, in IP video switching mode
• Technology Alliances

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MGC V8.0 Glimpse(EDR in July / August)

• Video Error Concealment over a dirty IP network
• VTX-1000 Wideband Support (G722.2)
• Additional support for SIP and the alliances
• Conference on a Port (COP) for SIP
• Text messaging for operators / admin to
  participants
• Additional Security enhancements

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MGC Update Summary

• The MGC has evolved in the last couple of years
• Additional hardware for increased capacity and
  improved utilization
• Additional software based features and
  functionality
• ITU standards to provide you maximum flexibility
• Enables new services, new technology and provides
  an upgrade path to new MGC releases such as R8 in
  the fall

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Webinar Offer
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Benefits

• Save money by not having to purchase an upgrade
  later at full list price
• Obtain all the benefits associated with the new
  features and functionality of our current
  software
• Become eligible to purchase a Maintenance
  Agreement thru which you can receive future
  updates and upgrades, when and if available, free
  of charge during the term of the contract.
• Plus all the other benefits of a support
  agreement
• Same day parts shipment
• Technical telephone support
• Self help tools and Knowledge Base

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60 Day Support Promotional Opportunity

• For the customers on this webinar we are offering
  a one time discount on a Support Contract
• If you purchase a one year Support Agreement we
  will take 10 off the total Support Agreement
  price
• If you purchase a three year Support Agreement we
  will take 15 off the total Support Agreement
  price
• These discounts along with the Software
  promotional pricing provides you with very
  attractive and highly discounted promotion pricing