Features
IBM Sametime is a client–server enterprise application that includes the IBM Sametime Connect client for end-users and the IBM Sametime Server for control and administration. IBM Sametime comes in 4 levels of functionality:
IBM Sametime Entry provides basic presence and instant messaging.
IBM Sametime Standard provides additional functionality to IBM Sametime Entry, including:
- rich presence including location awareness
- rich-media chat, including point-to-point Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and video chat, timestamps, emoticons, and chat histories
- group and multi-way chat
- web conferencing
- contact business cards
- interoperability with public IM networks via the IBM Sametime Gateway, including AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and XMPP-based services.
- open APIs that allow integrations between IBM's own and other applications
- Sametime Audio/Video Services supports audio (e.g. G.722.1) and video codecs (e.g. H.264)
IBM Sametime Advanced provides additional real-time community collaboration and social networking functionality to IBM Sametime Standard, including:
- persistent chat rooms
- instant screen sharing
- geographic location services
IBM Sametime Unified Telephony provides additional telephony functionality to IBM Sametime Standard or IBM Sametime Advanced, including:
- telephony presence
- softphone
- click-to-call and click-to-conference
- incoming call management
- call control with live call transfer
- connectivity to, and integration of, multiple telephone systems - both IP private branch exchange (IP-PBX) and legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) systems
IBM Sametime Gateway provides server-to-server interoperability between disparate communities with conversion services for different protocols, presence information awareness, and instant messaging. IBM Sametime Gateway connects IBM Sametime instant messaging cooperate communities with external communities, including external IBM Sametime, and public instant messaging communities, such as: AOL, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk, and XMPP. IBM Sametime Gateway replaces the Sametime Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Gateway from earlier releases of IBM Sametime.
The IBM Sametime Gateway platform is based on IBM WebSphere Application Server, which provides failover, clustering, and scalability for the IBM Sametime Gateway deployment. The product is shipped with the following connectors: Virtual Places, SIP, and XMPP. More protocol connectors may be added.
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