Yorktel's Hosted Video Conferencing Integrates with Lync and Office 365

Yorktel, a provider of video managed services, announces that its new hosted video conferencing service now supports integration with Microsoft Lync and Office 365. VideoCloud, Yorktel's recently unveiled cloud-based portfolio of hosted video conferencing services, can be used by anyone who is on a Microsoft Lync client in order to connect to various video conferencing systems from vendors such as Avaya's Radvision, Cisco, LifeSize, Polycom, and Vidyo. Yorktel touts to be the only provider to have this ability.

The VideoCloud services portfolio is offered in three models, addressing the different video conferencing needs of business organizations of all sizes.

VideoCloud Virtual Meeting Room is an on-demand video conferencing service. It is said to be "interoperable with any H.323 or SIP compliant desktop, room or mobile video conferencing client."

VideoCloud Managed Conferencing Service, on the other hand, features a completely managed service equipped with call control, cloud-based video conferencing bridging, and management functionalities to maintain multipoint room video conferencing. VideoCloud Managed Conferencing Service also comes with a host of other services that enable group meetings to become more efficient. The services include Incident Management, Maintenance, Performance to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Proactive Monitoring, Reservations and Scheduling, and User Experience Detailed Reporting.

Finally, there's VideoCloud B2B Service, which allows organizations to host and schedule external, inter-company meetings through a video conferencing system. And because each video call is facilitated as an outbound call for each of the companies involved, Yorktel's VideoCloud B2B Service ensures that the meeting is secure.

"With Yorktel VideoCloud, we are providing the means for organizations of any size to realize the full potential of video conferencing, unified communications and visual collaboration without complexity or cost," said Ron Gaboury, chief executive officer at Yorktel, in a prepared statement. "Our proven approach to video managed services liberates customers from having to support multiple communications platforms and security protocols by instead choosing a single partner and solution for a cohesive, customized user experience." (KOM) Link. Link.