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Lotus SameTime

Secure Application Sharing, Instant Messaging, and Web Conferencing

• Reduces costs, travel budgets, and workloads by streamlining communications
• People get answers by finding experts, working together
• Ability to make decisions faster and more effectively
• Extends a secure and reliable framework for real-time communications to customers and business partners
• Enables your enterprise to be more responsive to everyone along your value chain
• Works with your existing architecture, even if you don't have Notes!

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Key Features and Benefits:

• Ubiquity. With either a Notes client or a browser, you can now see who else is working in a team space and exchange instant messages with them. Examples include Microsoft Office, QuickPlace or any Web-based application, such as a portal.
• Authentication and access control. Users are authenticated when they access Sametime. And online meetings can be password-protected and have a restricted invitee list.
• Security and privacy. Data is encrypted to protect meeting content from unauthorized viewing. The transmission of chat data is also encrypted to offer greater protection and privacy. Chats can be saved in a text file by the end user to review at a later time, or logged at the server for regulatory reasons. Privacy management features allow users to specify their visibility to others in awareness mode to minimize interruptions.
• Sametime IM Gateway. The Lotus Sametime server supports the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for instant messaging and presence-leveraging extensions (SIMPLE) for the IM Gateway. This permits secure interchange of real-time information between other collaborative communities that support this standard. Once your system administrator sets up the Sametime IM Gateway, users can add people from other communities, based on their e-mail addresses, increasing reach to your value chain.
• Scalability. Application-sharing sessions allow hundreds of people to view the same application or presentation whiteboard. Multiple Lotus Sametime servers can be linked together to increase scalability and reduce traffic across wide area networks (WANs). An optional component is EMS, designed to optimize the load balancing and failover of your organization's Web conferencing infrastructure.
• Proxy support and firewalls. Putting Lotus Sametime in your network's demilitarized zone (DMZ) lets external users access the server without compromising network security. Client-side support for proxies includes HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5. And HTTP tunneling on port 80 enables Lotus Sametime clients that have restrictive firewalls and operate in corporate networks to connect to a Sametime server on the Internet.
• Directory support. Use existing directories (Domino or any lightweight direct access protocol protocol [LDAP] directory) to control exactly who can and cannot access your environment. Or create and manage a directory on the fly.
• Server management. By using the Lotus Sametime server's browser-based interfaces, you can set up new users, monitor activity levels, manage all security and access privileges, and analyze usage trends. Robust functionality, including server-logging, real-time monitoring of server usage and broadcast messages from the server make it easy to manage Lotus Sametime in or across your network.

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Sametime is quite an enhancement over traditional IM platforms, allowing users to share desktops, embed presence awareness into any application, and enjoy the security benefits of affordable enterprise-class software from Lotus.

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