Polycom Announces Industry-Transforming, Breakthrough Video Solutions

A screenshot of the Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite shows the global directory pulling in presence-based contacts from your social or business applications. Users can drag and drop names to start a secure, enterprise-grade video collaboration session with participants joining via a browser.

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Polycom’s new portfolio of next-generation video collaboration endpoints features a completely redesigned UI that delivers a simple and intuitive user experience.

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Updated Polycom RealPresence Desktop 2.0 software for PCs and laptops (Windows and Mac OS X) and Polycom RealPresence Mobile 2.0 for tablets and smartphones (iOS and Android devices) extends video beyond conference rooms, enabling organizations to deliver video collaboration to more users in more environments.

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Polycom RealPresence VisualEdge delivers ultra-slim and sleek design along with powerful executive desktop video collaboration experiences with the highest video resolution (up to 1080p60) and largest screen (27”) in its category. The systems also feature Polycom’s legendary HD PolycomStereoSurround audio technology and the new patent-pending Polycom NoiseCancel technology.

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Polycom RealPresence VisualEdge delivers ultra-slim and sleek design along with powerful executive desktop video collaboration experiences with the highest video resolution (up to 1080p60) and largest screen (27”) in its category. The systems also feature Polycom’s legendary HD PolycomStereoSurround audio technology and the new patent-pending Polycom NoiseCancel technology.

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New Polycom RealPresence Group 300 for SMBs is ideal for small huddle rooms and supports enterprise-grade video collaboration, the industry’s highest resolution (up to 1080p60) and a completely redesigned user interface. 

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Patent-pending Polycom SmartPairing technology wirelessly connects Apple iPads to Polycom video collaboration systems, letting users control video meetings with their tablets (including volume control, starting/ending video calls) and transfer a live video call from their tablet to a big screen with the swipe of a finger.

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Employees collaborate face to face on video using the new Polycom RealPresence Group system, which features a completely redesigned UI (user interface) for ease of use, and offers the industry’s best HD video (up to 1080p60 resolution), content sharing and crystal-clear audio.

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New Polycom RealPresence Group 300 for SMBs is ideal for small huddle rooms and supports enterprise-grade video collaboration, the industry’s highest resolution (up to 1080p60) and a completely redesigned user interface. 

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Andy Miller
President and CEO

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Eric Brown
COO and CFO

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Polycom’s announcements build on its industry leadership in video collaboration innovation.  Forrester Research, Inc., recently named Polycom a leader in room-based video conferencing and a top-ranked company in both “current offerings” and “strategy” in its August 2012 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012.” In the report, Polycom received the highest scores possible in the categories of quality of experience, interoperability, product road map, partners, and security and compliance.

Organizations across industries are video-enabling their workforce, including supplying personal video-conferencing systems to employees. Gartner estimates that there will be more than 200 million employees using enterprise-supplied personal video-conferencing systems worldwide by 2016, up from just 33 million in 2012.*

"Video collaboration solutions that allow for face-to-face interaction and content-sharing are important tools for helping businesses stay competitive and on the cutting edge, no matter their size. The challenge for mid-sized companies, in particular, is that although they want and need to implement the best technology, they are often hindered by limited budgets and IT resources,” said Ira M. Weinstein, senior analyst and partner, Wainhouse Research.  “Polycom has created a portfolio of video collaboration solutions that effectively hit the sweet spot for mid-market customers, delivering an enterprise-grade quality of experience, along with the affordability and ease of use to support customer needs today and tomorrow.”

"For years, Polycom and HP have worked together to transform the way organizations communicate and collaborate – on the go, at home, and at work. Today’s announcements bring exciting new advancements that will accelerate the adoption of video collaboration in organizations of all sizes."

Alastair Winner
HP TS VP Support and Consulting

"Once again, Polycom puts the user first with a series of standards-based breakthroughs that, combined with IBM social business applications, will make video collaboration easier, more scalable at lower cost, and more accessible to more people. We look forward to working with Polycom to deliver the true power of social business through these latest enhancements."

Jeffrey Schick
Vice President, Social Software at IBM

"Customers around the world are realizing productivity gains with Siemens OpenScape unified communications (UC) integrated with Polycom RealPresence video collaboration solutions. We’re excited about the new line of Polycom products because they offer an opportunity to deliver joint solutions that bring people closer together in a more rich collaborative experience and broaden the availability of video-enabled UC environments to enterprises everywhere."

Chris Hummel
Chief Commercial Officer, Siemens Enterprise Communications

"Polycom continues to be a leader in the marketplace when it comes to lower cost of ownership, ease of use, scalability, and interoperability within Microsoft Lync. Polycom’s latest product introductions affirm their commitment to delivering innovative, highly optimized UC solutions to the channel. No doubt, our reseller partners will benefit from offering these solutions, as they enable the end-user experience to be simple and consistent across various platforms and devices."

Buck Baker
President, ScanSource 

“Gen-i, Telecom New Zealand’s ICT services division, is seeing significant interest from customers who want an easy to use video conferencing solution so that they can deliver video collaboration across their organization, without IT, performance or security headaches. Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS is very compelling, as it provides a browser-based solution that is powerful and simple for the user, but has the backbone and infrastructure to ensure it meets the stringent security and quality requirements of the enterprise and the scalability and resilience of a service provider.”

Jo Allison
Acting CEO, Gen-i Australasia 

"Today, Polycom delivered on its promise to always be an industry leader and provided the solutions that customers are asking for.  Further, Polycom brings these solutions to market with a channel-enabled approach. We applaud Polycom on this strategy and accomplishment."

Pepper Fernandez
CEO, Solutionz Conferencing 

"Polycom’s latest product and solutions release will further drive the usage and adoption of enterprise video as they have made significant enhancements around simplicity of use, interoperability and collaboration functionality."

Graham Parker
Group Managing Director, Dimension Data

“Our attorneys service clients around the world – often during their local time –-- and regularly use video for depositions, hiring, and document reviews,” said George Brandon of Morris, Polich and Purdy, LLP. “With HD video collaboration solutions from Polycom, we can confidently conduct meetings on the device that’s most convenient and accessible at the time, whether it’s on a groupGroup video system in a conference room at 2pm, or at 10pm on a tablet when we’re at home or traveling. Polycom gives us the flexibility and quality we need to maintain excellent client service without straining our IT budget.”