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Lync Hoster Pack 2013Product Overview

Greater

Collaboration

Unified User

Experience

Enhanced Video &

Content Sharing

Lync 2013 Delivers

Extended

Infrastructure &

Resilience

Capabilities

Communication

Beyond Enterprise

Borders

Enable great meeting experiences & collaboration

Enable great meeting experiences & collaboration

Gallery View

Speaker View

Enable great meeting experiences & collaboration

Presenter Action

Buttons & Menus

Connect people, communications and the applications they use everyday

Seamless OneNote

Integration

Connect people, communications and the applications they use everyday

Quick Links

Connect people, communications and the applications they use everyday

Quick Links

Drop Down

Quick Links

Lync is familiar and engaging, across a varietyof devices and platforms

Lync is familiar and engaging, across a varietyof devices and platforms

The same engaging Lync experience regardless of client or platform

Federation enables users to collaborate in new ways

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Enterprise grade UC resiliency•

Low cost infrastructure and deployment•

Fast recovery across pools and data centres•

Fully integrated in IT management tools•

*Enterprise Edition

One archive store•

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One archive policy•

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One compliance experience•

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*Integration with on-premise Microsoft Exchange

Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA)•

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Client extensibility through Lync API

Unified Communications Web API (UCWA)•

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Lync Hoster Pack 2013Architecture & Feature Comparison

Multitenant Cloud Office 365Customer’s Premise Single Tenant Cloudv-dedicated

Lync to LyncPBX Replacement PBX Replacement Unified Communications

Dedicated vs Lync Hoster Pack

Syndication

ResellerService Provider

As Systems Integrator

Service Provider

As Private Cloud

Service Provider

As Public Cloud

Enterprise & Medium Business Small & Medium Business

Active Directory Model

- Single Forest for Exchange 2013 and Lync

Server 2013 Hosting Pack

- Common tenant OU Structure

- Lync Deployment establishes root OU

- One (1) OU per tenant

- Users are enabled for Exchange and Lync

- Tenant boundaries support federation

configuration

Active Directory Forest

Lync Exchange

Single System

- Front-end server runs all workloads

- No other server required to additional

functionalities

- All in one box Standard Edition deployment

• Ideal for proof of concept, pilot, small and medium

businesses

• Functionality: IM, Presence, Voice, Video, Conferencing,

Mobility

• Highly available* when peered with another server

• PSTN access with Gateway, Direct SIP or SIP Trunk

• Scalability: up to 5,000 users

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Standard

Edition

Optional backup

Standard edition

*New in Lync Server 2013

Extended (Scalable) System

- Similar to Standard edition architecture

- No other server required to additional

functionalities

- Enterprise edition with SQL server

• Ideal for large and medium size businesses, regional

deployment

• Functionality: IM, Presence, Voice and Video,

Conferencing, Mobility

• Highly available, medium scale to large scale

• Scalable : Scale up by adding more FE servers*

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Enterprise edition

(Front End Servers)

SQL

*New in Lync Server 2013

Extensibility & Integration

- Technical:

• Streamline augmentation of your environment

• Standardize routine tasks

• Integrate systematically with your OSS/BSS systems to

avoid repetitive data input which could result in errors

• Enable scale

- Business:

• Streamline processes to enable customer turn-up

quicker and to realize profits sooner

• Allow engineers to engineer, not to provision and

administer

• Empower customers to administer their service suite

on your behalf – simply offer them choices for

upgrades to richer services

Direct cmdlets

and scripts Homegrown

management portals

3rd party

automation

Federation

- Federation with Lync Server 2013 Hosting Pack

enables Service Providers the ability to allow

fully hosted tenanted users to communicate

with federated partner users

• Different tenants on the platform must be explicitly

federated before users can be directly added by SIP

address

• Support for full (AV) Skype federation requires

additional gateway hardware

IPIP

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Lync

Edge

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Lync

Edge

Hosted TenantHosted Tenant

External User(s)

Presence

A collection of attributes that provide a user’s contact information, their status, activity, location, and willingness (availability) to communicate.

Instant messaging (IM)

A form of real-time text-based communication.

Data and desktop sharing

A feature that allows users to share files, use whiteboard, and display their desktop to a meeting, IM or call conversation participants.

Conferencing

Two-way video and audio transmissions between users.

Unified Messaging (via Microsoft Exchange)

An application that consolidates a user's voice mail, fax, and email into one mailbox, proving a single delivery location, regardless of message type.

Private branch exchange (PBX) replacement

UC integration with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems provides an alternative to traditional phone exchange systems.

Lync Server Multitenant Hosting Pack Partner Opportunity/Offerings

• Appliances – Hand and head set I/O devices

• Conferencing Server Gateway Video – Real-time IP video, voice, and data services

• Audio Conferencing Provider – Integration with hosted conferencing systems

• Short Message Service (SMS) – Text messaging systems used by phones and mobile communication systems

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Feature Overview

On-Premise Partner Offering

Instant Messaging (IM)Lync Server 2013 Lync Hosting Pack 2013 (v2)

1-to-1 and Multi-party IM/Presence

File transfers

PC-to-PC audio/video dial-out calling

Mobile VoIP

Persistent Group Chat

Public IM Connectivity and Federation

IM/P/A/V Federation with other OCS/Lync Server /Lync Online organizations

IM/P federation with XMPP (Google Talk, etc.)

IM/P with AOL, Yahoo and other public IM networks

IM/P & Voice with Skype via 3rd party

Conferencing/Online Meetings

Ad-hoc Multi-party Audio/Video Yes VoIP - requires a partner for

PSTN audio

Interoperability with on-premises video conferencing systems via 3rd party

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Feature Functionality

On-Premise Partner Offering

Voice & Telephony InfrastructureLync Server 2013 Lync Hosting Pack 2013 (v2)

PSTN calling (incoming/outgoing calls)

Call hold/retrieve

Advanced call controls (transfer, forward, simultaneous ring)

Team call

Delegation (boss-admin) for Voice

Call park

Outgoing DID manipulation

Static 911

Dial-plans & Policies

IP desk phone support

Resilient Branch Office Appliance

Call Admissions Control (CAC)

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Feature Functionality

On-Premise Partner Offering

Voice & Telephony InfrastructureLync Server 2013 Lync Hosting Pack 2013 (v2)

Support for Analog devices (e.g. FAX)

Response groups via 3rd party

Private Line (secondary DID for execs)

Direct connectivity with PBX via gateways

Direct SIP for audio with on-premises IP-PBXs

Direct SIP for signaling (presence updates) with on-premises IP-PBX 3PPI

RCC (click-to-call) with on-premises PBX

CDR & billing reporting

Integration with call center solutions

Voice/ACP Integration with carriers/service providers

ACP Integration with select carriers

Voice integration with select carriers

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Feature Functionality

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 (v2)

Presence and IMWindows 8 &

Windows RT

Windows

PhoneAndroid iPhone iPad

Lync and Lync online connectivity

New UI, photo, status, presence

View Lync contact list

View contact card

IM, multiparty conversations

Distribution list expansion

Lync Meetings

Join Lync Meetings with a single touch

Voice and Video over IP (3g/4g & WiFi)

Simultaneous Multi-Party Video

View shared Lync Meeting content

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Mobility Functionality

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 (v2)

Enterprise voiceWindows 8 &

Windows RT

Windows

PhoneAndroid iPhone iPad

Single-number reach

Voice and Video over IP (3g/4g & WiFi)

Call-via-work

Lync Hosting Pack 2013 Mobility Functionality

Lync Reference Links

Resource Links

http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg293124.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/dn144928

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/jj945270

https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/uk/Pages/Solutions/love-lync.aspx

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4123384&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

https://twitter.com/DrRez

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