The Polycom^® Open Collaboration Network™

As companies address today's market trends—such as the global economy, recession, pressure on budgets—they need ways to improve the productivity of their employees and lower costs. A key means to accomplish this is unified communications (UC)—which brings together telephony, e-mail, presence, conferencing, mobility, instant messaging, content sharing, and other communications solutions—all of which have been siloed in the past.

Not just for large global enterprises, organizations of every size are turning to unified communications—inside and outside their companies. Not surprisingly, no single vendor is able to provide all the solutions needed. And while some vendors propose a "rip and replace" strategy, none can step in and alone provide a true end-to-end solution. With the Polycom Open Collaboration Network, Polycom and our partners are able to deliver UC solutions that fill the gaps and provide complete solutions to companies large and small and in all industries.

IT Can Depend on the Polycom Open Collaboration Network
With the Polycom Open Collaborative Network, only Polycom provides an open and interoperable collaborative solution that gives customers greater flexibility and investment protection. The main tenets of the Polycom Open Collaboration Network are standards-based solutions, solutions that are scalable, flexible, multi-network, and able to run in mixed environments. They run on more than one communications platform, and are fully redundant. You'll benefit by being able to leverage your existing infrastructure and build a network of vendors and suppliers that works from a standards base so you can be assured that your solutions continue to interoperate in a best-in-class environment—and again, only Polycom delivers it all.

Who Are the Polycom Open Collaboration Network Providers?
Polycom is working with the leading unified communications platform providers to deliver applications that cut across different environments. Currently our strategic Polycom Open Collaboration Network partners include Avaya, BroadSoft, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Microsoft, and Siemens. We also have a larger network of ARENA partners who enhance the range and variety of unified communications Polycom is able to offer our customers.

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News Releases:
Polycom Announces New Strategic Relationship with Microsoft for End-to-End Unified Communications
Polycom expands relationship to include unique, natively integrated Polycom solutions and coordinated go-to-market initiatives for Microsoft unified communications

Polycom Signs Global Agreement with HP for Visual and Unified Communications Solutions
Polycom and HP to deliver integrated UC solutions and services globally.

Polycom Broadens Portfolio of Seamlessly Integrated Voice and Video Solutions Optimized for Microsoft Unified Communications
Expanded relationship with Microsoft to jointly develop and deliver an extended portfolio of UC solutions that will enable more effective collaboration for customers. Includes three new CX series phones supporting Microsoft Communications Server "14".

Avaya and Polycom to Jointly Develop and Market Video and Voice Communications Systems
Agreement reflects companies' shared commitment to open, standards-based unified communications

Polycom Video Infrastructure Innovation Supports Broader Visual Communication and Video-Enabled UC Networks
Polycom enhanced infrastructure helps customers improve network efficiency and fault tolerance while giving network managers greater control, flexibility and expanded ROI reporting tools

Polycom Delivers Breakthrough Video Integration for Microsoft Unified Communications Environments
Polycom delivers industry-first capabilities in scheduling, user experience, management and enabling smart rooms for Microsoft UC environments.

BroadSoft and Polycom Introduce Hosted Unified Voice and Video Collaboration Solution
New Program Enables Value Added Resellers and Systems Integrators to Deliver Cloud-Based Communications Services

Juniper Networks, Polycom Partner To Improve Experience and Economics of Visual Communication Networks
Alliance to maximize converged and intelligent network capabilities to deliver telepresence and video conferencing services with assured quality

Siemens Enterprise Communications and Polycom Announce Unified Communications Partnership
Global agreement to provide customers productivity and cost-savings benefits of integrated HD video and telepresence solutions