Instruction manual

DEFINITY® Business Communications System and GuestWorks® Issue 6
Overview
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Video Solutions
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Visual communications provides other advantages for your normal day-to-day
operations. Business meetings can benefit from the nuances that a facial expres-
sion can convey sometimes more directly than the words being spoken. Employ-
ees can be trained on the latest products and procedures on a regular basis. You
can meet with your suppliers without ever travelling to see them.
This section will introduce you to the visual communication products that you can
connect to your system to create a premier communications solution that satisfies
all your needs — voice, data, and video — just by dialing a telephone number.
NOTE:
Some features and solutions are unavailable in some countries. Please
contact your local account manager or authorized Lucent Technologies
representative for further information about which features and solutions are
available to you.
Group Video System
The Group Video System turns a telephone call into a face-to-face meeting for
conducting business with people across the country or around the world. The lines
of Group Video Systems, based on the PictureTel and Polycom Group Video
Lines, are designed to assure that your video conferences are the most effective
possible.
A Group Video System can connect directly to your system or to the network.
When connected to your system via either Digital Communication Protocol ports
or a DS1 interface, video calls are placed as easily as voice calls. You can also
benefit by using your system’s Automatic Route Selection (formerly World Class
Routing) capabilities and the shared use of network facilities such as ACCUNET
Switched Digital Services or Software-Defined Digital Network.
Group Video Systems are totally self-contained and include a pan/tilt/zoom cam-
era, a monitor, the control unit, communications equipment, and the equipment
electronics. You can easily add peripheral equipment such as video cassette
recorders to record the conference, document cameras or scanners to review
hard-copy material with distant participants, and personal computers to supply
spreadsheets or other computer-based conveniences.
You can equip any office or conference room with a Group Video System. Confer-
ees can speak and act naturally without thinking about audio and video pickup.
The system adapts automatically to room acoustics, and a unique, audio-com-
pression algorithm yields distortion-free, full-duplex, interactive video without
echo. A highly-sensitive microphone is built into the control unit, and if necessary,
conferees can use up to four auxiliary desktop and/or lapel microphones.