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LifeSize and Microsoft - Qualified Integration for Productive Collaboration

Read the full announcement on LifeSize Video Conferencing Spot blog.

LifeSize expands its rich video collaboration offerings through new interoperability with Microsoft® platforms. LifeSize HD video conferencing products integrate with Microsoft unified communication (UC) platforms, enabling users across the enterprise to seamlessly connect over video from LifeSize systems to the desktop and vice versa. Organizations of all sizes will be able to scale video collaboration capabilities cost-effectively to meet communication and productivity objectives.

"The combination of LifeSize technology with Microsoft UC platforms will enable customers to extend their video conferencing ecosystems from the desktop to the boardroom, and everywhere in between."

- Yancey Smith, Director of Product Management for Lync at Microsoft Corp

LifeSize's interoperability with Microsoft platforms means that customers can enjoy a variety of communications services - email, video, chat or phone - from one single user interface. Colleagues, customers, partners and other business users can keep in touch with anyone, anywhere, regardless of location, whether it be the meeting or conference room, home office or on the road from any PC.

Streamlined. Connected. Powerful.

With the official Microsoft qualification of LifeSize® Team 220^TM and LifeSize® Passport, LifeSize is one of the first video conferencing vendors to qualify fully with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2^TM. Qualification for LifeSize® Room 220^TM and LifeSize® Express 220^TM is expected to follow soon this calendar year.

LifeSize's solution qualification means comprehensive support for Microsoft Office Communications Server, including support for:

• Authentication and Encryption (TLS/SRTP) for secure, reliable communications
• Support for firewall/NAT traversal via Microsoft® Edge Services to ensure issue-free calling across organizations
• Auto-configuration to Office Communications Server to simplify deployment
• Unified presence status with the ability to place and receive calls from one Office Communications Server account among multiple devices (PC or a LifeSize system)
• Addition of LifeSize systems to contact lists in the Microsoft Office Communicator view
• Easy placement of calls from LifeSize qualified video systems to third-party systems within the OCS environment, using commonly supported video and audio codecs

LifeSize's video solutions also offer interoperability with Microsoft® Lync^TM. Later in 2011, LifeSize will seek full qualification with Microsoft Lync. Customers will be able to make calls between desktops with Microsoft Lync and LifeSize endpoints, ensuring the most genuine, face-to-face interaction possible, within their existing Microsoft environment and workflow.

In addition, LifeSize, along with Microsoft, is a founding member of the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and is leading the technical working group to define the future of interoperability between leading unified communications solution providers.

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