PLEASANTON, Calif. - Mar 17, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced it received Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL) certification from the U.S. Department of Defense for the Polycom RMX 2000™, a highly scalable and resilient multipoint conferencing platform for high-definition (HD) telepresence, audio and video conferencing. Complementing existing UC APL certifications for the Polycom HDX line of room and personal telepresence systems, Polycom solutions enable government customers to securely bridge telepresence and audio and video conferencing across secure networks to support a wide variety of mission critical applications.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Mar 16, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced the first, comprehensive, standards-based solution combining real-time visual communication, live and on-demand video streaming, digital signage and network-efficient video content distribution, designed to help organizations tackle the inherent communication and collaboration challenges of managing a distributed and mobile workforce and operating globally.

PLEASANTON, Calif. and TxDLA Conference HOUSTON - Mar 15, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced its highly scalable Polycom CMA Desktop™ video collaboration application will now support Apple Mac OS® X. Polycom CMA Desktop for Mac OS X supports high quality video and voice communication and offers seamless interoperability with the existing Polycom CMA Desktop for Windows, as well as the estimated two million standards-based telepresence and video conferencing systems in use today. Polycom will demonstrate the new solution at the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) 2010 Conference taking place March 21-24 in Houston (booths no. 31 and 32).

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Mar 09, 2010 : Avaya and Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], are expanding their existing relationship and will jointly develop and market integrated video, voice and collaboration solutions. The companies plan to deliver fully integrated, end-to-end unified communications (UC) solutions that use the Avaya Aura™ Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based platform and the Polycom Open Collaboration Network strategy.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Mar 08, 2010 : An increasing number of primary and secondary schools are leveraging video conferencing for classroom-to-classroom collaboration as a way to expand their curriculum and give students memorable learning experiences by interacting with students and teachers in other cities, states and countries. Each year hundreds of schools get their first experience through Read Around the Planet, a free, annual video conferencing event sponsored by Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the leading provider of visual communications solutions, and Two-Way Interactive Connections in Education (TWICE), Michigan's K-12 video conference organization. In its ninth year, Read Around the Planet 2010 took place between Feb. 22 and March 5 and involved more than 58,000 students in six countries.

PLEASANTON, Calif. and ATLANTA, HIMSS10 Booth No. 6201 - Mar 01, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], the leader in telepresence, video and voice solutions, is demonstrating an end-to-end integrated voice, video and application solution for the healthcare industry at this year's HIMSS10 conference and exhibition. Polycom healthcare solutions work in tandem with key healthcare applications to deliver improved patient care, streamlined communications and workflow, enhanced productivity, and significant and immediate ROI for healthcare providers.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 25, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], the leader in telepresence, video and voice solutions, today announced that Ron Myers has been named a 2010 Channel Chief by the Everything Channel's CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers. They consistently design, promote, and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 23, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced the Polycom Touch Control™, an innovative interface device for Polycom room telepresence systems that allows users to control all aspects of their experience using a touch-screen that will be instantly familiar to millions of mobile phone and device users. By simplifying how users find colleagues, place calls, share content and access advanced features, the Polycom Touch Control shortens the learning curve for new users and facilitates broader adoption of visual communication which helps organizations drive faster return on investment and greater productivity.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 16, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced support for a breakthrough, standards-based video compression technology, H.264 High Profile, that will reduce the bandwidth requirements for high-definition (HD) telepresence and standard definition (SD) video conferencing by as much as 50 percent, representing substantial network bandwidth cost savings for customers. The reduced bandwidth requirements will also serve as a catalyst for broader video deployments, creating a network effect that will deliver greater customer benefits as the Polycom Open Collaboration Network™ of partners drive telepresence and video conferencing adoption within Unified Communications (UC) environments.

WILMINGTON, Mass., and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 10, 2010 : UniFirst, a leading supplier of uniforms, work apparel, and related business products to companies throughout North America, strives to maintain a tightly knit, family-like culture with its 10,000 Team Partner employees. But, like so many large companies, UniFirst has been challenged by the high expense and costly downtime related to corporate training programs and associated travel. That's why UniFirst turned to Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM] telepresence solutions to enable productive, face-to-face meetings and training sessions without the high costs associated with travel.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 10, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced enhanced management and infrastructure solutions to drive broader deployments of visual communication and video-enabled unified communications (UC) networks that include telepresence, video conferencing and desktop video collaboration. The enhanced platforms deliver greater network efficiency, improved reliability and fault tolerance, and will allow customers to more effectively provision and manage broad-scale visual communication networks and video-enabled Microsoft unified communication environments.

SEATTLE and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 09, 2010 : Perkins Coie is an international law firm that represents companies across a wide range of industries and stages of growth, from start-ups to FORTUNE 100 corporations. As a world-class legal service provider dedicated to uncompromising integrity and quality, one of the law firm's core principles is teamwork. But in a highly dispersed, international organization, collaboration often required a lot of travel. Recently however, Perkins Coie upped the ante on its teamwork initiative by deploying a companywide visual communication solution from Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM].

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 09, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced an expansion of its integrated visual communication solutions for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange with breakthrough capabilities that make it easier for organizations to deploy, manage and use Polycom telepresence, high-definition (HD) video conferencing and desktop video collaboration within Microsoft unified communications (UC) environments.

SAN DIEGO and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Feb 02, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], the leader in telepresence, video and voice solutions, kicked off its annual partner conference, TEAM Polycom, in San Diego this week. The event, which takes place Feb. 1 – 3 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, is host to networking and communications industry leaders from around the globe. Polycom teams with its unified communications (UC) solutions partners to deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end standards-based open collaboration network.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jan 28, 2010 : BroadSoft®, the worldwide leader of VoIP application software, and Polycom®, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], the leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, today introduce a fully integrated voice and video solution delivered over one common infrastructure. V2Connect leverages Polycom's Open Collaboration Network strategy with BroadSoft's BroadWorks® VoIP application platform. Together, BroadSoft and Polycom enable service providers to deliver a unified voice and video solution as a hosted service.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jan 26, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009.

SUNNYVALE and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jan 25, 2010 : Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) and Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) today announced an alliance focused on improving the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customer experience for telepresence and video conferencing services. Anchored by dynamic signaling between the Juniper network resource control platform and the Polycom video call control system, the joint managed video services solution will reduce total capital expense and ongoing operating and maintenance costs and requirements, while improving the delivery and manageability of visual communications.

NEW YORK and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jan 21, 2010 : Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group), a leading global provider of unified communications (UC) solutions, and Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced a strategic alliance and global resale agreement that will enable customers to leverage the productivity and cost-saving benefits of Polycom telepresence, high definition (HD) video conferencing solutions and desktop video collaboration applications through seamless integration with the OpenScape UC environment. By adopting a state-of-the-art UC environment, organizations can not only take advantage of innovative video solutions from Polycom, but they can increase collaboration and customer responsiveness while reducing conferencing costs and the need for employee travel.

ORLANDO, Fla. and PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jan 14, 2010 : In conjunction with IBM Lotusphere taking place next week in Orlando, Fla., Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced an expansion of its integrated voice and visual communication solutions for customers deploying IBM Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC²) environments with support for Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes. The combined solution is designed to give users "one-click" access to on-demand voice and video collaboration tools from within Lotus software applications that can enhance teamwork, reduce costs, and help accelerate enterprise decision making among colleagues, customers and business partners.