Polycom Announces Industry Networking and Telecom Veteran Joe Sigrist to Lead Network Systems

Phil Keenan, Former Network Systems General Manager, Becomes Senior Vice President of Strategy

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Apr 04, 2006 : Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that industry veteran Joe Sigrist has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of Network Systems at Polycom. Sigrist is responsible for leading product development, product management and marketing, and integration for Polycom's market-leading voice and video bridges and network infrastructure software. He will report to Bob Hagerty, Chairman and CEO, and work in company headquarters in Pleasanton.

The company also announced today that Phil Keenan, a video industry veteran of 12 years and former senior vice president and general manager of Network Systems, will assume the new role of senior vice president of strategy at Polycom, reporting to Bob Hagerty. As head of strategy, Keenan is responsible for driving strategic positioning and corporate messaging, customer solutions, supporting go to market programs, business development, and integration efforts with Polycom Alliance Partners.

Sigrist is a twenty year industry veteran of networking and telecommunications companies with experience in both the enterprise and service provider markets, having held senior executive, product management and engineering positions with Lucent Technologies, Ascend Communications and Octel Communications. Most recently he was CEO of Hammerhead Systems, a networking startup.

As president and general manager of the Edge Access Division at Lucent, Sigrist drove Lucent's voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) strategy for softswitches, media gateways and servers, as well as Lucent's dial access servers and ATM access systems to worldwide service providers. During his tenure at Lucent, he was responsible for over 1,200 employees and revenues that exceeded $1.5 billion. As director of product management for Lucent's Enterprise Division, he was responsible for the combined voice messaging product portfolios from Lucent' s Business Communications Systems division (now Avaya) and Octel's enterprise group. At Ascend, which was acquired by Lucent, he was vice president of product management for their industry leading dial access servers. At Octel, he had product marketing and engineering responsibility for products sold to enterprise customers, the company's largest segment. Sigrist holds a Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, also from Santa Clara University.

"Polycom is ideally positioned at the heart of the industry's move to on-demand collaboration which includes video and voice over IP," said Joe Sigrist. "The company has the solutions and partnerships in place that will grow the market, bringing instantaneous, high quality voice, video and content to the desktops, mobile devices and conference rooms of end-users everywhere."

"Network Systems is pivotal to our own best of breed, on-demand collaborative communications solutions as well as to those of our alliance partners," said Bob Hagerty. "We are delighted to welcome Joe to head the division. He is uniquely qualified to lead our full range of network solutions development for service providers to consumers thanks to his experience in business, product management and engineering positions, as well as in marketing VoIP solutions to both the enterprise and the service provider."

"I also want to thank Phil for his leadership of Network Systems and I look forward to his continuing impact as he takes on strategy for our go to market solutions and partnerships," said Bob Hagerty. "He has been instrumental to Polycom's success since he joined the company with the Accord acquisition in 2001, first becoming head of worldwide sales and then general manager of Network Systems. The Polycom MGC™ video bridge leads the market, winning recognition for its superior transcoding, security, scalability and manageability. Phil led Polycom's acquisition of Voyant®, whose carrier-grade voice bridge is an industry leader among the world's largest service providers. His team is also responsible for the successful multi-stage integration of Polycom solutions with Avaya call management and Microsoft presence-based environments."

"Polycom is a leading innovator as well as an industry leader in collaboration technologies," said Keenan. "I look forward in my new role to continuing to drive Polycom's integrated, IP-based collaborative solutions to customers at a level that has never been experienced before."

About Polycom

Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations by integrating the broadest array of video, voice, data and Web solutions to deliver the ultimate communications experience. Polycom's high quality, standards-based conferencing and collaboration solutions are easy to deploy and manage, as well as intuitive to use. Supported by an open architecture, they integrate seamlessly with leading telephony and presence-based networks. With its market driving technologies, best-in-class products, alliance partnerships, and world-class service, Polycom is the smart choice for organizations seeking proven solutions and a competitive advantage in real-time communications and collaboration. For additional information call 1-800-POLYCOM (765-9266) or +1-408-526-9000, or visit the Polycom website at www.polycom.com.

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