Polycom® Solutions for U.S. Federal Government
U.S. Federal Government departments and agencies face budget shortfalls, location closures, and downsizing. They also confront an increasing demands for public services that are more effective, relevant, and transparent.
A collaborative approach promotes greater interaction and engagement between governments and their stakeholders., This gives citizens on-demand access to better- quality services from any corner of the country.
Using Polycom® RealPresence® voice and video solutions, U.S. government agency representatives and citizens can communicate more easily and effectively, from anywhere to anywhere. This improves public services, increases departmental efficiency and responsiveness, and promotes inter-agency collaboration.
U.S. government agencies and departments depend on Polycom to:
- Strengthen national security and emergency management through situational awareness
- Improve and accelerate judicial proceedings by reducing the security risks of transporting inmates, expediting court cases, and expanding inmate services with telehealth, tele-psychiatry and other video-enabled services
- Facilitate the reality of telework for the Federal employee―which not only reduces costs, carbon emissions, and travel time, and ensures compliance with budgetary and environmental mandates, but also improves employee productivity (as telework has been shown to do)
- Empower agencies and departments to communicate optimally, regardless of the network or environment
- Eliminate distance through e-learning, training, and development via video
- Deliver healthcare services more cost-effectively at the point of need, by bringing experts to patients virtually rather than physically
Learn more about Solutions for Federal Government
- Polycom Government Brochure
- Polycom Federal Services Brochure
- Polycom Stimulus Response Brochure
- Polycom Grant Assistance Program Brochure
- Transforming Human Justice Services though Unified Collaboration White Paper
- From Connected to Collaborative Government White Paper
- Video Beyond the Conference Room White Paper
- Top 5 Ways Collaborative Technology Can Put Stimulus Dollars to Work White Paper
Telepresence has certainly shortened the fuse on NATO's ability to act in this dynamic
environment.

- Brigadier General Gyorgy Lehel, Director of Operations, NATO Communications and Information Services Agency
Enterprise Collaboration
Training & Distance Learning
Healthcare
Emergency Response
Command & Control
Judicial Solutions
Telework Solutions
Enterprise Collaboration
The complexities involved with protecting and serving citizens, incident response, and homeland security are such that no single department or agency within the government can meet all of the requirements of an intervention. With Polycom solutions, government agencies, departments, and nongovernmental and international organizations can all come together to communicate optimally regardless of the network or endpoint equipment used to coordinate responses regarding complex missions.
Polycom Products for Enterprise Collaboration
Polycom Business Media Phones – The Polycom VVX® 1500 business media phone integrates seamlessly into VoIP environments while enabling agencies to improve coordination, create familiarity and develop trust in relationships when used daily for face-to-face communications.
Polycom Room Telepresence Solutions – The Polycom HDX® 8000 series delivers high quality voice, video, and content-sharing options and can be configured to maximize communication in a variety of government enterprise environments (conference, training and meeting rooms).
Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure Solutions – Polycom RMX® 4000 platform is ideal for high demand government networks that require a multipoint conferencing solution that can extends unified communications to all users across the enterprise.
Polycom Unified Communications – Polycom CX Product Family delivers high definition, wideband audio in four form factors that are optimized to work across government enterprise networks optimized for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007.
Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer government institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.
Training & Distance Learning
Like most organizations, governments face the continued need to upgrade skills as technology, business and environmental trends change. By leveraging Polycom's collaborative solutions, governments are able to offer a low-cost, high-impact way to extend interactive learning experiences to a greater number of employees. Agencies can expand skills and expertise, extend the reach of instructors, speed learning, and decrease the time and expense associated with travel using Polycom's real-time voice, video, and data collaboration capabilities.
Learn more about Training & Distance Learning
Polycom Products for Training & Distance Learning
Polycom Installed Audio Solutions – Polycom SoundStructure® C-Series technology helps eliminate distracting noises in classroom environments of nearly any size.
Polycom Converged Management Application™ Desktop – This presence-enabled desktop video conferencing solution is ideally suited to help government agencies extend training and distance learning to remote locations.
Polycom CX5000 Speaker Phones – Enhance distance learning by adding a unique 360-degree group video experience to Microsoft® Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Polycom RealPresence™ HD 400 (RPX™ HD 400) Series – Provides an ideal multipurpose conferencing environment for advanced education programs, in-depth government training, and symposiums.
Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer government institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.
Healthcare
Transform the way patient care is delivered. With Polycom solutions, agencies can optimize resources, improve quality of care, span distances, and speed the delivery of health care services. Distance and terrain often make it difficult to get the right physician and patient together. Sometimes instant opinions are needed, and that's why thousands of healthcare professionals use Polycom solutions to provide access to medical services in remote locations while driving down the cost of these services.
Polycom offers the best way for any healthcare provider to improve the quality of care, control costs, address staffing shortages, serve rural patients and keep pace with the competition with real-time interactive communication for healthcare environments.
Polycom Products for Healthcare
Polycom Practitioner Cart® HDX® Units – Enable mobile healthcare solutions that bring high definition video, audio, and image sharing to medical professionals and patient—no matter where they are located.
Polycom SpectraLink® Wireless Telephone Systems – Give healthcare staff mobility, allowing them to perform their job more effectively and from anywhere within the facility.
Polycom Personal Telepresence Solutions – Polycom HDX 4000 Series personal telepresence solutions provides government trainers a room-based telepresence solution offering ease of use and life-like. face-to-face training.
Polycom Voice Solutions – Polycom's line of voice conferencing products are also ideal for government to ensure crystal clear communications.
Polycom Professional and Support Services – offer government institutions expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.









