Describes the functionality of each Sametime® product and the
servers or services required for each product.
Sametime products
include Sametime Communicate, Sametime Conference, Sametime Complete (Conference
and Communicate together), and Sametime Unified Telephony.
The following tables provide a functional description of Sametime products, and the Sametime servers associated
with each product.
Table 1. Sametime product
descriptions
Sametime Product |
Functional Description |
Sametime Communicate |
Sametime Communicate
gives you one-to-one presence and chat, and one-to-one calling. Supports
the following clients:
- Standalone rich client
- Embedded rich client in IBM® Notes®, IBM Connections, IBM WebSphere® Portal, MS Office,
MS SharePoint
- Browser-based clients
- Mobile clients for popular devices
Mobile instant messaging supports the following A/V features:
- Click to Call Video (one-to-one calls only)
- Click to Call Audio (one-to-one calls only)
- VoIP calls using SIP-based calling (outgoing only)
- Sametime Unified
Telephony calls using VoIP (outgoing only)
- Audio only on phone devices (iOS and Android phones)
- Check system requirements for the latest iOS and Android versions supported.
Configurable features include but are not limited to:
- One-to-one video and voice chat in rich clients and mobile devices (not in browser)
- Multi-way chat
- Contact lists
- Chat with users who use other instant messaging software
- Business card
- Chat history
- Offline messaging
- Persistent group chat
- Skill tap
- SIP-based calling with any phone number or SIP URI, including
third-party TCSPI integration.
- Mobile SIP-based calling
- Multiple file and folder transfer
- Organizational tree view of the contact list
- Screen sharing
- Plugins, API integration
|
Sametime Conference |
Sametime Conference
gives you continuous presence video and multi-way calling. Configurable
features include but are not limited to:
- Browser-based meetings
- Multi-user video and multi-way calling using a web browser
- One-to-one and group chat inside the meeting
- SIP trunking
- VOIP in browser with dial in and dial out
- External users from outside the enterprise can attend meetings
- Mobile meetings
- APIs
- TCSPI to connect to third-party audio and video bridge
- Video Conference Widget for IBM Connections
- Meeting Room Widget for IBM Connections
The Sametime Conference license only allows a browser
as a client. Sametime Conference can be deployed without Sametime Communicate |
Sametime Complete |
- Sametime Communicate
- Sametime Conference
- Instant share
Sametime Complete is required if you want to use Sametime Meetings with mobile devices and/or rich clients such
as the Sametime Connect Client and the Sametime client embedded in the Notes Client. With Sametime Complete, rich client users have multi-way and
multi-user video as well as Instant Share allowing users to share their screen without entering a
meeting room. |
Sametime Unified
Telephony |
Sametime Communicate
is a prerequisite for Sametime Unified
Telephony. Sametime Unified
Telephony gives you:
- Voice calls with your unified phone number
- Personal call routing and device selection, including mobile devices,
on the fly
- Integration with PBX systems
- Telephony status
- Automatic geographic awareness
- Mobile: Sametime Unified
Telephony calls using VoIP (outgoing only) on iPhones and Android
devices
|
* Requires Sametime Communicate