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Polycom's market-leading communications and collaboration solutions enable people to connect anytime, anyplace and with any device in a virtual meeting experience as natural as being there.

The continued demand for our solutions is the result of a collision of economic, environmental, and technical factors. Globalization led to the rise of outsourcing, strategic partnering and the mobile workforce. Concurrently, there is economic uncertainty, travel is increasingly inconvenient and costly, and global warming is threatening our planet. The solution to the communications barriers raised by the first two factors are the bandwidth-rich IP networks that now enable reliable, high definition voice and video communications from the desktop and conference room to the telepresence suite, reducing the necessity for travel. They also satisfy the new requirement for clean technology.

The ability to improve productivity, drive higher efficiencies, and reduce unnecessary costs across the enterprise is at the heart of these global market dynamics. For these reasons, IP-based collaboration technology is once again a top-ten budget priority for the third year in a row[1]. Increasingly, CIOs and other operating executives are tapping into the powerful Polycom platform to help improve top- and bottom-line performance.

With the globalization of the enterprise, green mandates in many countries, and rocketing travel costs, the need for Polycom collaboration technology has never been clearer.

[1] Source: Gartner "2008 Gartner Executive Programs CIO Survey: Member Release," Mark P. McDonald, Tina Nunno and Dave Aron, January 2008

Polycom's 2009 Proxy Materials are now available online