Click to join. Drag to conference. Click to video. These are the new metaphors for how today’s organizations are connecting groups of employees, customers and partners. With the 3Com® IP Conferencing Module, online meetings can be aligned easily with a range of business needs. To ensure required resources are reserved for regularly conducted meetings, conferences can be booked in advance. When fast, collaborative decisions must be made, ad-hoc meetings can be convened without reservations by using the ID number of the person initiating the conference. Alternatively, an event coordinator can automatically summon a predefined list of attendees to an instant or emergency conference.

3Com IP conferencing services easily integrate with 3Com SIP-based IP telephony solutions—VCX platforms and NBX R6.0 platforms running in SIP Mode. And, when used in conjunction with VCX® digital gateways, the module can easily address the needs of customers using a third-party IP PBX or legacy PBX.

The NBX version supports audio conferencing for up to 25 users. When used with a VCX system, the IP conferencing solution consists of the following applications:

• Presence-based Instant Messaging for online or offline, on-hook or off-hook chat
• Voice conferencing that supports up to 300 audio users on a single call and up to 3,000 simultaneous users across a multiserver system when used with VCX.
• Video conferencing that is able to support as many as eight users on a single window
• Document sharing for common editing and document development

With exceptional ease, organizations can implement enterprise-wide IP conferencing services to lower costs, increase user productivity and strengthen customer interactions. The module delivers:

• High-availability services that can function at the same time as other 3Com convergence applications to reduce deployment and management costs
• Real-time collaboration tools that minimize storage requirements for email and voice mails
• Presence services for reducing missed phone calls and voicemail tag
• Easy to use interfaces that encourage collaboration and communication with capabilities such as click-to-add video for in-progress audio conferences
• Click-to-call functionality for time-saving efficiency

Please visit www.3com.com/telephone_systems for additional information about 3Com IP Conferencing and Presence solutions and other 3Com business applications.