1. INTRODUCING Avaya equinox™ meetings online
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2. agenda Introducing Avaya Equinox Meetings Online What’s Different?
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3. Introducing Avaya equinox meetings online
What is Equinox Meetings Online?
Premium Video Conferencing as a Service
Your meeting room in the cloud
Available via low monthly cost or annual contract
Powered by, operated by Avaya
Key Aspects
Designed to be used with confidence by anyone, regardless of device, existing system, or expertise
For teams who want the productivity of in-person meetings, no matter where they are
Makes it easy to recreate the way people naturally meet and get work done
Award-winning technologies ensure secure, crystal- clear communication
A richer experience with innovative and unique capabilities
In the cloud, saving time and expense
What is it?
It’s an Avaya hosted premium cloud offering for video collaboration that provides a conference room in the cloud, or a virtual meeting room at a low monthly fee or through an annual contract. The service is available for purchase only from Avaya partners, and we’ll get to the specific list of countries in a few minutes.
What are some of the key aspects of Avaya Equinox Meetings Online?
Pretty much anyone can use it with the devices and systems they already own – desktop PC or Mac, Android or Apple Smartphone or tablet, along with video room systems.
Its based on award-winning Avaya conferencing technologies to provide a high quality experience.
Backed by the expertise that comes from Avaya’s long-term leadership in the market.
It offers a very rich video experience with some innovative and unique capabilities to set it apart.
And of course, it offers all the benefits of a cloud solution.

4. Avaya Equinox meetings online HIGHLIGHTS
Self-service “Meet-Me” conferencing
Virtual Meeting Room supports up to 50 concurrent connected participants
Low monthly cost or annual contract
Unlimited use per room
Join with PC, Mac, iOS and Android tablet / smartphone, or video room system – with encrypted security
1080p HD video, wideband audio, data collaboration / content sharing
Personal video layouts (see everyone else with drag and drop control)
Data collaboration & unique review
Meeting moderation with lecture mode
Bandwidth efficient & Internet optimized w/ H.264 High Profile & SVC
Lets review the end customer highlights of Avaya Equinox Meetings Online.
Equinox Meetings Online offers a self-service model of “Meet-Me” conferencing through a Virtual Meeting Room that supports up to 50 concurrent connected participants with unlimited use for each virtual room. Its available at a low monthly cost or through an annual contract. Meeting participants can join with a PC, Mac, Apple iOS or Android tablet or smartphone and even a video conferencing room system with encryption for security.
The service provides up to 1080p HD video (up to whatever the participant’s device can support), wideband audio for clarity along with content sharing capabilities.
Each participant has control over their personal video layout, with 24 different layout options. One example of this layout flexibility layouts is that – say you have someone presenting. They can set the layout to only show them in the center of the screen as the presenter, but if the other participants would prefer to see everyone else rather than just the presenter, they have full control to change the layout on their personal screen. All of this is simple through an intuitive drag and drop control design that lets you click on a participant’s image and drag them to the position where you would like their video to appear in the layout.
Participants can “catch-up” and review content presented earlier without interrupting the active meeting which is a great capability for meeting participants that arrive late.
Full meeting moderation is available including lecture mode where an instructor for example in a distance learning environment can control the session so that every participant sees only the presenter and must “raise their hand” to be recognized and speak, and the instructor can view all participants simultaneously to make sure they are paying attention.
Lastly, Equinox Meetings Online is optimized for Internet and wireless connections with H.264 High Profile for bandwidth savings of 30-50% over other video compression techniques, along with high network error tolerance using H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC).

5. Invite Anyone & Easily Join
Windows
macOS
Android
iOS
Invite anyone on the device they already own
Easily join by:
Clicking a web link from an
Following a link in device calendar (Outlook / Exchange integration)
Entering or dialing a meeting room ID
Access from Anywhere
Wi-Fi & mobile wireless
Without VPN and through firewalls
Internet optimized
HD Voice, Video, Data
Meeting participants can use what they already own to join a meeting – PCs, Macs, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones allowing them to join a meeting on nearly whatever device is available to them and on whatever network that device is connected to.
Meeting participants inside or outside an organization can easily join by clicking a web link from an , following a meeting invitation link in their device calendar, or by simply entering or dialing the virtual meeting room ID.
And software license keys are not required for either desktop clients or mobile apps.

6. What’s different with equinox meetings online?
Total Room System Integration
HD 1080p, H.264 High Profile, and H.264 SVC available for every connection
Extensive interoperability with any vendor – audio, video, data & content sharing
Receive text chat on room systems
Conference control and moderation for any vendor room system, with in conference information overlay
Far End Camera Control from desktops to room systems
Rich Conference Experience
Data collaboration review to “catch-up” and immediately review content presented earlier
Full meeting moderation including advanced lecture mode and digital hand raising / request to speak
View 28 other participants simultaneously, 24 different video layout options, each participant has own personal layout with drag & drop control
So what’s different, with Avaya Equinox Meetings Online?
First off, we have the best room system integration in the market. On the specification side, we have HD 1080p, H.264 High Profile, and H.264 Scalable Video Coding available for every connection to the virtual meeting room. There is extensive room system interoperability as an element of our heritage. On top of interoperability, we provide text chat where a room system receives scrolled chat messages from desktop clients and nobody else in the market does this. There is full on-screen conference control and meeting moderation along with an in conference information overlay from any H.323 room system. In addition, users have far end camera control to room systems which improves meeting effectiveness in use cases such as distance learning, health care, and interviews.
All of the vendors compete heavily to receive these awards from the analysts. Analysts review your solution extensively, do multiple video meetings, talk to your customers, and do all of their interviewing using your solution.
For the rich conference experience, the collaboration feature set far exceeds alternatives. Samples of this capability include the unique feature to catch up and immediately review previously presented content if you arrived late to a meeting. Users can view all other participants in a conference through 24 different layout options, and each person can arrange their own video layout through drag and drop control. Participants also have full meeting moderation including lecture mode where everyone will view the presenter full screen, while the presenter sees videos of all the participants, along with digital hand raising capability.
Avaya’s virtual meeting room is also a great option for users on the go. There are similar conferencing capabilities with any device used, allowing users freedom of choice, and the ability to use what they already own to join a meeting. It’s bandwidth efficient and Internet optimized to provide high quality virtually anywhere, and AES-128 encryption helps with security, which is especially important with mobile devices and Internet connections.
Best Option for Users on the Go
Similar capabilities with any device PC, Mac, Apple iOS and Android tablet / smartphone
Bandwidth efficient & Internet / wireless optimized for high quality anywhere
AES-128 encryption to assist with security
Communications Solutions Product of the Year for Equinox

7. RICH, high quality EXPERIENCE wideband Audio, VIEW UP TO 28 OTHER PARTICIPANTS SIMULTANEOUSLY
Up to HD 1080p video
24 different video layout options
View up to 28 other participants
Each participant can have own personal video layout
Drag & Drop control
Users can view up to 28 other participants simultaneously in up to 1080p video quality.
Each participant has control over their personal video layout. There are 24 different layout options. From a practical perspective this means that if someone is presenting they can set the layout to only show them in the center of the screen, but if the participants would prefer to see all of the other participants rather than just the presenter, they have full control to change the layout on their personal screen. All of this is made simple through an intuitive drag and drop control design that lets you click on a participants image and drag them to the position you would like their video to appear.
Avaya virtual meeting rooms provide a very rich video experience where participants can view up to 28 other participants simultaneously in up to 1080p video quality (depending on how the virtual meeting room is configured and the capabilities of the device used). Each participant has control over their personal video layout with up to 24 different options through an intuitive drag and drop control design that lets users click on a participant’s image and drag them to the position they would like their video to appear.

8. Optimized for internet connections
Advanced Packet Loss Handling fills in holes and gaps in audio
NetSense bandwidth estimation and dynamic adaptation minimizes the impact of network congestion
Equinox virtual meeting rooms offer several technologies to optimize conferencing quality, especially over the Internet:
Advanced packet loss handling with packet loss concealment produces new audio samples to fill in holes and gaps providing a superior audio experience.
H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) provides very high tolerance to network errors.
Avaya’s proprietary NetSense estimates available bandwidth and dynamically adapts data rates to minimize the impact of network congestion – especially important for wireless connections and mobile devices.
And H.264 High Profile which saves 30-50% bandwidth compared with standard H.264 video compression.
H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for high network error tolerance
H.264 High Profile for 30 – 50% bandwidth savings compared to other compression techniques

9. COMPLETE ROOM SYSTEM INTEROPERABILITY DATA, MEETING MODERATION, RECEIVE TEXT CHAT, H.235 ENCRYPTION
The majority of the competitors support room systems, but what they really offer is basic room system connectivity. This is one of the areas where for example Zoom is lacking and offers only this basic connectivity.
We take room system support much further. As we said previously, meeting rooms support full HD 1080, which is what you want if you have a room system with a large display. Meeting rooms have full moderation and the ability to receive text chat that we’ll discuss in a minute, along with support for H.235 encryption to help secure the connection with the room system. H.235 is the protocol used for room system encryption and if your customer is looking at a service that doesn’t support it, connectivity with room systems is vulnerable to being hacked.

10. DATA ACROSS ALL DEVICES
Desktop, Mobile, Room Systems
Share screen or specific applications
Content viewing with innovative “slider”
Go back a few slides without interrupting the meeting
Catch up and review if you showed up late
Text chat with emoticons – private or group
Even text to rooms
Data can be received on all devices, not just desktops as with some solutions. To clarify this, desktops can share their entire screen or specific applications. Room systems care share their data video input; this is usually a laptop connected to the room systems content input, so whatever is on the laptop screen when connected to the room system is shared, and devices with the mobile app have receive only capabilities for content. When you think about the small form factor, it would be pretty difficult to be on video and share content from a smartphone anyway.
Equinox Meetings Online also supports a unique feature some of you might be familiar with called slider.
Slider enables meeting participants that arrived late for example to catch up and review previously presented content without disrupting the presenter and asking them to go back and cover something the missed.
As you expect, private or group text is available like other solutions, but we have an added advantage for room systems where they can receive chat from the meeting scrolled across their video display. So participants connecting from a conference room with a room system can also receive the text chat from the meeting.

11. Easy & powerful moderation
Participant list
Mute participants
Stop cameras
Disconnect participants
Lock meeting
Terminate meeting
Request to speak / raise hand (desktop clients)
Lecture mode for learning
Full meeting moderation and control is not limited to particular devices or apps, but is available with desktops, mobiles, and room systems via a participant list paradigm providing participants flexibility in how they connect to virtual meeting rooms.
Lecture mode is available for distance learning applications where the presenter will be viewed full screen; and the presenter can view all the remote “students” simultaneously – seeing if they are paying attention or not.
And conference participants have the ability to virtually “raise their hands” to be recognized.

12. Graphical room system meeting menu overlay full meeting moderation from any room system
Exit Menu
Meeting Being Recorded (future)
Encrypted Meeting 4
Number of Audio Participants
Audio Only Speaker
Torry Smith
Change Image Size to Fit Display
Change Video Layout

13. SEcurity One of the greatest challenges of the mobile workforce
Help prevent unwanted guests
Meeting room lock and access PINs
AES-128 encryption
H.235 security and encryption for room systems
Supports corporate security measures
Security is one of the greatest challenges with BYOD and the mobile workforce and the service offers some major features to help in keeping meetings secure and unwanted guest out.
Virtual meeting rooms have AES-128 encryption, H.235 which is the encryption and security standard for video conferencing room systems, meeting room locks and access PINs, along with embedded NAT and firewall traversal to work with existing IT security measures.

14. Behind the scenes of avaya equinox meetings online
Built on award winning Avaya Equinox and Scopia solutions
Hosted in resilient data centers
24 x 7 x 365 backend support
Technicians trained and certified on latest video technologies
Experts in desktop, mobile, room system interoperability
Available reporting on virtual meeting room utilization, etc.
The solution is built on the award winning Equinox and Scopia conferencing solutions.

15. Equinox meetings online customer benefits
Easy, Self-Service Cloud Delivery
Easily connect with partners, customers, colleagues
Simply click a link to install and join a virtual meeting room
Employees can focus on goals instead of operations
Enable multiple use cases: sales team meetings, job interviews, new hire training, etc.
Address gaps in meeting business requirements
Saves Money, Time, Resources
Eliminates IT resource burden, time, capital investment of on-premises video collaboration
Lower staff costs, less training & onboarding
No long term commitment, available monthly billing, fixed predictable costs
Easily scale up or down as required
Improves utilization of existing video room systems
Universal Connectivity – Desktop, Mobile, Video Room Systems
Works with what users already have available – PCs, Macs, Smartphones, Tablets, Room Systems
Meet beyond organization’s walls with firewall traversal, no VPN required
Robust end-to-end encryption helps keep meetings secure
Mobile Workforce Flexibility
Join, participate and manage a meeting from almost anywhere
Optimized for mobile environment: efficient network use, tolerance for variable network conditions and congestion
Usability designed around limitations of mobile devices: ensures quality and productivity on the go
Equinox Meetings Online offers numerous customer benefits:
Easy, self-service cloud delivery enables users to connect with partners, customers, and colleagues – even from other organizations. To participate, users simply click on a link for installation and join a virtual meeting room. Easy conference entry is through a calendar invite or directly through a browser. And conference participants always take advantage of the latest in collaboration technology with automated software updates.
Businesses can use video collaboration and focus on their core competency without having in-house video experts.
Equinox Meetings Online eliminates the IT resource burden, time and capital investment of on-premises video collaboration. There is no long term commitment and capacity can be easily scaled up or down on as required. All saving money time and resources.
It works with what users already have available and enables virtual meetings beyond an organization’s boundaries with embedded firewall traversal, end-to-end encryption and without VPN; for universal connectivity.
Equinox Meetings Online provides mobile workforce flexibility as users can join, participate, and manage a meeting from almost anywhere. Its designed for real world network conditions and the practical limitations of mobile devices ensuring quality communications and productivity on the go.

16. Avaya equinox meetings online for knowledge workers and task workers
Who need to meet, build relationships and work with teams of people inside and outside their organization and across dispersed geographies while meeting tight deadlines
What Does it Do?
Simple, HD meeting room in the cloud brings the experience of face-to-face meetings to anyone, anywhere, on any device
Solves for BYOD complexity and supports B2B communications (firewall, network issues, bandwidth, etc.)
Why Is It Better?
A richer experience that comes from a set of innovative and unique capabilities
Uniquely designed for the mobile worker
Easy, flexible and powerful video collaboration for everyone – now in the cloud

17. Avaya equinox meetings online for Cxo and LOB leaders
Who need an affordable solution that improves team enterprise efficiency, helps ensure business continuity and improves financial and competitive agility; who need an intuitive tool that helps them meet their departmental goals and enhances collaboration within and outside their teams
What Does it Do?
Simple to use video in the cloud enables company to focus on their business, not the technology
Enables multiple use cases within the organization: candidate interviews, sales team meetings, new hire training, etc.
Why Is It Better?
Easy to make available to everyone - customers and partners
Designed to be used with confidence by anyone, regardless of device, existing system, or level of expertise
Easy for you to buy it yourself – try it now!

18. Avaya equinox meetings online for IT Managers and directors
Responsible for video conferencing who want to deploy the latest collaboration tool while leveraging existing video investments, providing universal connectivity, and flexibility to address the growingly mobile workforce without increasing current staff and capital expense investment
What Does it Do?
CAPEX to OPEX business model change
Provides a meeting room in the cloud, at a low monthly cost
Improves utilization and integration with existing room systems
Solves for BYOD complexity and supports B2B communications (firewall, network issues, bandwidth, etc.)
Why Is It Better?
Enterprise – grade security features, scalability, availability
Richest room system integration of any solution in the cloud
Operational simplicity: ease of use, installation, maintenance, upgrades and minimal support

19. How do you get equinox meetings online?
Purchase from Avaya partners
Available
North America: US, Canada, Bermuda
APAC: Australia, New Zealand
EMEA: Austria, Belgium, France, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UK
Central & Latin America: Anguilla, Argentina, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago
30-day free trials available via partners
Customers purchase Avaya Equinox Meetings Online through partners.
We’re also making it really convenient for partners to provide 30-day free trials to their customers through Avaya OneSource and we’ll cover that momentarily.