Hosted Microsoft Lync

Your business is no longer location-based. Information must be available at all times and in all places so that decisions can be taken fast. Users need to be able to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Our hosted Microsoft Lync service is the perfect solution.

Hosted MS Lync Server 2010 manages all communication within your business, including E-mail, VoIP (Voice over IP), IM (Instant Messaging), Presence Awareness, Conferencing, Collaboration and your PBX (Private Branch Exchange).

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Microsoft Lync. Streamline Your Communications.

Microsoft Lync™ Server 2010 delivers a fresh, intuitive user experience that brings together the different ways people communicate in a single interface. A single interface unites voice, IM, audio-, video-, and web-conferencing into a richer, more contextual offering and a single identity makes it easier and more efficient for users to find contacts, check their availability and connect with them.

This unified experience facilitates rapid user adoption, while the ability to support a full range of communications from a single platform reduces both capital and operational costs.

Why Lync?

Find and communicate with the right person, naturally: With native Active Directory integration, Lync Server 2010 helps users find the right person to connect with, view their presence, and then communicate with them in the most effective way—via voice, video, or sharing an application or PowerPoint.

Stay Connected from Virtually Anywhere, with just a standard Internet connection: Microsoft Lync™ 2010 offers the same rich functionality and security features outside the firewall without requiring a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and enables mobile and Web access across leading browsers and platforms.

Build Social Connections: Lync 2010 encourages closer social connections with a new Activity Feed that shows updates from contacts when they change status note, picture, title, or office location.

Fully Integrated with Microsoft Office: Communicate with context from Microsoft Office applications. Lync Server 2010 works with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Office applications for a richer collaborative experience with consistent presence, click-to-call options, and a new Contact Card.

Converged Communications, Interoperable and Extensible:  Users can schedule a virtual meeting from Microsoft Outlook® and join through Lync 2010 via the PC, phone, or Web interface. Lync Server 2010 provides a meeting user interface with integrated audio and video that enables participants to share presentations, annotate slides, superimpose text, and use visual pointers for more effective discussions.

Why hosted Microsoft Lync?

Single Hosted Interface. CallTower offers a hosted Lync service under a separate name: NextUC. The NextUC Lync server integration provides a single hosted interface that unites PSTN voice communications, IM, and audio, video, and web conferencing and collaboration into a richer, more simplified offering. Our integration of Microsoft Lync is built from the ground up to be a single platform that can enhance, extend, and even replace traditional and PBX systems.

Complete Set of Enterprise-grade Voice Features: NextUC hosted Lync Server 2010 integration delivers a standalone business voice offering and extends these capabilities outside the office via Internet access without requiring a VPN connection.  This includes common calling features such as answer, forward, transfer, hold, divert, release, and park, along with Enhanced 9-1-1 calling for North America, and broad array of calling devices.

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