IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client features

The new IBM Sametime® Unified Telephony Lite Client provides telephony managers an excellent entry point to step their organizations into unified communications (UC) and the full Sametime Unified Telephony experience. With minimal requirements beyond your existing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) infrastructure, the Sametime Connect client is turned into a standards-based SIP softphone, allowing users to place and receive calls to external phone numbers, video conferencing systems or video conferencing endpoints from their desktop.

Note: IBM also offers the full robust IBM Sametime Unified Telephony experience which integrates telecommunications into your existing UC and collaboration environment to provide people with a consistent communications experience across a broad range of telephony and voice functions: a single unified phone number that can reach any device, telephony presence, incoming call management, click-to-call, click-to-conference, and softphone capability.

Benefits of Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client software:

• Increases the ease of communication
  Users can make phone calls directly from their computer—at home or virtually anywhere in the office or on the road.

• Helps a social business make faster, better informed decisions.
  Decision-making is more social when stakeholders engage in a engaging, rich video conference, which can be accessed from Sametime Unified Lite Client software

• Leverage your investment in video conferencing systems.
  Providing a richer remote collaboration experience from the desktop can reduce the productivity loss and expense of travel.

• Reduces telephony costs with Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony.
  When enterprises enable employees to adopt the use of VoIP from their computers, the need for desk phones and home office lines can be eliminated. By placing calls from the Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client, users can avoid long distance charges and cellular costs, including international roaming fees. As adoption spreads, costs continue to decline, allowing you to redirect budget to other projects.

Features:

Telephony and voice
The front-end user experience of Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client software is designed to be intuitive.

• Softphone
  Users can initiate and manage phone calls through their Sametime Client embedded softphone using the computers built-in microphone and speakers, a USB speakerphone, or a headset. Calls may be placed and received by the softphone when properly configured with a certified telephony, audio or video conferencing system.

• Basic Softphone User Features
  The software includes basic call control capabilities. Users can click to call, dial through Quickfind or Dial Pad, phonebook and view call history. Within a call a user can raise/lower volume, start/stop video, leave call and mute/unmute. Moderator call controls include mute one or all participants, lock call, invite others and end call for everyone.

System Requirements and Interoperability
The Program license provides the right to use the embedded softphone of IBM Sametime Standard or Advanced to place and receive calls to and from a certified telephony, audio and/or video conferencing system, when properly configured through a SIP trunk to the Sametime Media Manager. Use is restricted to those systems which have been certified in interoperability.

For a current list of Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client Certified Partners and supported offerings, please visit this Sametime wiki page: Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client certified environments