IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 is designed to help accelerate critical decisions in your social business with industry-leading online meetings, voice, and new continuous-presence video conferencing
IBM United States Software Announcement 213-369September 10, 2013
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(Corrected on September 23, 2013)
Updates made in the table in the Product positioning section.
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IBM® Sametime® Conference is an all new offering that helps teams work together, build trust, and make better decisions regardless of the distance separating the participants. Sametime Conference is designed to accelerate your social business by enabling key decision makers to share content and instantly gauge reaction through high-definition, continuous presence video. Get face to face with colleagues, customers, and partners without ever having to leave your office - and be more productive for it. Sametime Conference can even integrate with many legacy telepresence and room based video conferencing systems to drive utilization and unlock the value of those earlier investments. Moreover, all of these services can be accessed from the desktop or from within the IBM Social Business Platform, IBM Industry Solutions, business processes or other third-party applications.
Sametime Conference includes:
- Industry leading online meetings and web conferencing (formerly included with the Sametime Standard and Sametime Advanced editions).
- A software MCU featuring continuous presence video conferencing and dial-out.
- Bandwidth management of Sametime endpoints to help protect your network and mission critical applications.
- An all new, streamlined user experience.
- The ability to collaborate with applicable external parties without additional licenses (formerly requiring a Sametime Extranet license).
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
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| Overview |
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IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 is one of three next generation Sametime offerings that build on our 15 year history in market. This new offering unifies all of Sametime's multi-party collaboration capabilities into one simple package. Sametime Conference builds on the award winning tools in Sametime V8.5:
Sametime Conference capabilities:
- Persistent meeting rooms - Be more focused. Users can own multiple meeting rooms and devote them to specific projects or topics. Meeting room content remains available unless explicitly cleared so teams can work together over time.
- A zero-download, browser experience - Quickly get to the work. Join a meeting room and view content without having to install additional applications. (Screen sharing or audio video will auto-install a small browser plugin.)
- Integrated into your favorite calendaring application - Do not waste time sharing meeting credentials. Join a room with a single click from any calendar invitation.
- Bandwidth management of Sametime endpoints - Helps protect your network and mission critical applications.
- Third party plugins and open, standards-based APIs - Easily integrate third-party telephony, voice, video, and other services into Sametime meeting rooms.
In addition, Sametime Conference has all new, cutting-edge audio, video, and social features that can help make it easier and more cost effective to accelerate your social business into real time.
- Video based on the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) H.264 codec - Layering technology means video can be economically delivered to a range of devices.
- Software multipoint control unit (MCU) - Intelligently routes requested SVC layers to clients without expensive, hardware intensive transcoding.
- An all new, streamlined user experience - Access the tools you need in fewer clicks, with less clutter.
- Browser clients that are up to twice as responsive as the prior generation of Sametime browser clients.
- Leverage the full capabilities of Sametime Conference to collaborate with applicable customers or business partners without additional license fees.
For information on mobile and IBM Connections integration, refer to the Statement of direction section.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections for details.
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| Planned availability date |
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- September 20, 2013: Electronic availability
- October 18, 2013: Media availability
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| Description |
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IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 is a robust communications offering designed to accelerate your social business by enriching decision making, with more complete and accurate information driven by the people who know in your organization. Let it unlock the value in your under utilized communications systems by integrating them into a simple to use system that users will enjoy. Access all of these services from the applications and business processes you use every day.
Sametime Conference V9.0 includes:
Online meetings
- Reservationless, browser-based, persistent, and highly available meeting rooms
- Assign and enter meeting rooms from IBM Notes® and Microsoft™ Outlook invitations
- Manage access to any meeting room through passwords, hidden rooms, or choose to prevent entry without a room manager or owner present
- Allows anonymous or guest access when necessary
- Present uploaded content, share your entire screen, or just specific applications
- High quality conversion, presentation, and annotation of PDF, ODF, Microsoft Office, and other common file types
- Store uploaded content in each meeting room's private library
- Remotely control other meeting participants' desktops
- Get interactive with highlighter and pointer or raise your hand to attract attention
- Create polls, capture minutes, action items, group chat, and poll results in detailed meeting reports
- Designate room managers who can open meeting rooms and the voice, video call on behalf of room owners
Voice and video
- Cutting-edge continuous presence, high-definition video conferencing showing up to six people simultaneously
- A scalable software Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) that can be geographically distributed
- Gracefully step down quality and frame rate as necessary, dropping back to an audio-only call when necessary
- A video manager or cluster of video managers that balances the load across the MCUs based on policy and demand
- NAT traversal to extend audio and video across firewalls without VPNs
- Bandwidth management of Sametime endpoints to help protect the network from the demands of rich communications
- Open, standards-based plugin model to turn Sametime into a fully functional client of third-party telepresence and room-based video conferencing systems
- Server-side recording of audio and presented content
- Dial out (when linked to a third-party PSTN Gateway)
- Backward compatibility with previous generation standards-based endpoints
Integration and customization
- Standard integration with IBM Notes , IBM WebSphere® Portal, IBM Connections, IBM Industry Solutions, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Active Directory.
- Standards-based APIs and plugin model to incorporate third-party telepresence, telephony, and audio conferencing systems into the Sametime experience
Administration
- Updated browser support for Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox on all their supported platforms.
- Updated workstation support for Mac OS 10.7 and 10.8, SLED 11, Ubuntu 12.10, and Microsoft Windows™ 7 and 8.
- Updated server support for IBM AIX® V7.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ 6.3 and 6.4, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2, and Microsoft Windows 2012 Server.
- Single-point administration of the new media infrastructure including guided activities for installing the servers, provisioning users and policy management through the Sametime Systems Console.
- Administrators can deploy the new media infrastructure with redundancy for fault tolerance and scalability. The new Video Manager allows farm-based node deployment with front-end load balancers. This allows multiple video manager instances to govern multiple MCU instances for a highly scalable and resilient infrastructure.
- The new IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 media servers provide built-in interoperability with hardware endpoints. Users can integrate their existing SIP-based video devices as Sametime endpoints by following a few simple steps and be up and running quickly.
- The new IBM Serviceability Tool for Sametime allows administrators to validate installation and deployment plans. It provides monitoring tools to help troubleshoot problems and share information with IBM support.
For information on mobile and IBM Connections integration, refer to the Statement of direction section.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) can be requested via the IBM website
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IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 is ideal for group communications such as meetings and multiparty audio and video. If you require additional capabilities such as instant messaging, presence information, and one-to-one communication capabilities, you should consider IBM Sametime Complete V9.0 instead. If you need telephony integration into a heterogeneous telephony infrastructure and want advanced call routing features, you should also consider IBM Sametime Unified Telephony V9.0 . The following table summarizes key functionality available in IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 versus IBM Sametime Communicate V9.0 and IBM Sametime Complete V9.0.
COMM = IBM Sametime Communicate
CONF = IBM Sametime Conference
COMP = IBM Sametime Complete
COMM CONF COMP
Rich presence X - X
-Automated X - X
geographic
awareness
-User alerts X - X
and privacy
lists
Instant X - X
messaging
-Offline X - X
messaging
-File transfer X - X
and screen
capture
-Federation X - X
with third
party services
-Skill tap X - X
-Instant polls X - X
-Community X - X
announcements
-Continuous X - X
presence video
calls
-Instantly - - X
share your
screen, a
region of your
screen or an
application;
remote control
Persistent X - X
group chat
Audio, video and X - X
telephony
-One-to-one X - X
voice
-One-to-one X - X
video
-SIP soft phone X - X
(voice or
video)
Clients X - X
-Zero-download, X X X
browser client
-Eclipse-based X - X
rich client
Integration X X X
-Third-party X X X
plugins and APIs
External X X X
collaboration
included in
license
Meetings - X X
-Reservation-less- X X
persistent
rooms
-Own multiple - X X
rooms for
different
topics or
projects
-Present files, - X X
screen share,
app share,
remote control
-Issue polls, - X X
capture minutes
and action items
-Annotation - X X
tools
and recordings
-Auto-generate - X X
activity
reports
-Use the rich - - X
client
-Scheduled - - X
meetings view
-Drag and drop to- - X
invite
participants
Continuous - X X
presence video
-Software MCU - X X
(VMCU)
-Intelligent - X X
video manager
(VMGR)
-Geographic - X X
distribution and
clustering
-H.264 SVC - X X
codecs
Bandwidth X X X
management
Program charges: IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 is available under a per Authorized User (AU) charge metric. Under the AU charge metric, Authorized Users may use their entitlement to communicate with External Users without requiring a separate entitlement for those External Users. For example, an Authorized User can distribute IBM Sametime Connect Clients to External Users for the sole purpose of accessing the Authorized User's Servers. An External User is a unique person, not employed in, paid by, or acting on behalf of licensee's rnterprise, who is given access to the program in any manner directly or indirectly (for example, via a multiplexing program, device, or application server) through any means by an Authorized User entitled to use the program to communicate only with those same entitled users.
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| Statement of direction |
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IBM's intent is to bring mobile parity with the capabilities that are available on the desktop client and browser, where appropriate.
In addition, it is IBM's intent to make Connections Integration Widgets that would improve integration with IBM Connections available for download from the IBM Solutions Catalog.
IBM's statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM's sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.
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Product description Language GA date
IBM Sametime Conference Multilingual October 18, 2013
V9.0.0 (Portuguese,
French,
Danish,
Catalan,
Kazakh,
Russian,
Hebrew,
Arabic, Thai,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Norwegian
Bokmal,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
Croatian,
German,
Swedish,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
Hungarian,
English,
Romanian,
Slovenian,
Greek,
Turkish,
Dutch, Czech,
Italian,
Finnish,
Polish)
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Program VRM Program name number 5725-M35 9.0.0 IBM Sametime Conference
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Packaging
IBM Sametime Conference V9.0 will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
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category
IBM Sametime Conference Sametime Sametime
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM Sametime Conference 5725-M35 Per Authorized
User for System
z
IBM Sametime Conference 5725-M35 PA Per
Authorized User
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IBM Sametime Conference
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number
IBM Sametime Conference
IBM Sametime Conference PA Per Authorized User Annual E0IC7LL
SW S&S Rnwl
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S&S 12 Mo
IBM Sametime Conference PA Per Authorized User SW S&S D11DPLL
Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
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IBM Sametime Conference V9.0.0
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IBM Sametime Conference V9.0.0
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IBM Sametime Conference IBM Sametime Conference AH190ML
Authorized User V9.0 Multiplatform
Multilingual Media Pack
IBM Sametime Conference IBM Sametime Conference AH190ML
Authorized User for V9.0 Multiplatform
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IBM Sametime Conference
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number
IBM Sametime Conference
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Annual SW S&S Rnwl
IBM Sametime Conference Per Auth.User for System z Lic D11DLLL
+ SW S&S 12 Mo
IBM Sametime Conference Per Auth.User for System z SW D11DMLL
S&S Reinstate 12 Mo
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