Microsoft Lync Products

Workloads
Instant Messaging and Presence
Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 gives users real-time presence information and enhanced instant messaging (IM) to help them connect more efficiently and effectively.

Audio Video and Web Conferencing
Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 makes it easy for users to create, moderate, and join ad hoc collaboration sessions and online meetings with internal and external users. A rich user experience and a unified interface make it easy for people to work together effectively and often even when time or distance prevents in-person meetings.

MobilityExtend
Mobility is a way of life for today’s business professionals. Microsoft Lync 2010 makes communicating easier and more engaging by delivering a single Communications experience across PC laptops, browsers, telephones, and mobile phones.

Enterprise Voice
Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 combines the telephony features of a traditional IP PBX with rich presence, instant messaging, and conferencing to improve communication and to lower costs. Users can access intuitive, powerful voice features—in the office, at home, or on the road—from phones, PCs, and desktop applications, while administrators benefit from a unified solution that is easy to deploy and manage. Lync 2010 can replace or enhance your existing IP PBX system.

Group Chat
Microsoft Lync 2010 Group Chat allows users to have topic-based, multi-party discussions that persist over time, which allows efficient information sharing and discussions as a group.

Technologies
Platform Extensibility
The Microsoft Unified Communications solution is powered by software, making it easier to add and customize communications features compared to hardware-based systems. Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 will bring the vision of a fully extensible communications platform a step closer with simplified application programming interfaces based on industry-standard technology.

Public IM Connectivity
Communicate quickly and efficiently, and share presence and instant messaging (IM) with users of Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, AOL and Yahoo! public IM service providers.

Federation
Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 enables workers to communicate faster and more effectively with others inside and outside their organization. Federation extends all of the communications capabilities of Lync Server 2010 over the Internet to customers, suppliers, partners, and others.

Management and Operations
With a completely updated and newly streamlined management infrastructure, Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 is easier than ever to deploy and manage. It supports security, compliance, and extensibility for a true enterprise-grade unified communications platform and offers the resiliency, scalability, and critical features necessary to enhance or replace traditional PBX systems. With the upcoming release of Lync Server 2010, IT professionals can look forward to systems that are more reliable than ever and work with their existing investments.