Polycom Announces Next-Generation Video Collaboration Solutions

Polycom, Inc., the open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions provider, has announced breakthrough solutions that are designed to transform the industry, accelerate mass adoption of video collaboration, and fuel new growth opportunities for the company in both existing and new markets.

As part of the announcement, Polycom unveiled Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite, a new extension to the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which lets customers extend enterprise-grade video collaboration to users of Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, and other business video applications via a browser, for B2B and B2C videoconferencing with the highest quality, reliability and security.

Powerful RealPresence Platform enhancements include industry’s first open standards-based SVC, providing 3X HD multipoint video capacity for greater scalability and dramatically lower TCO, superior performance, and backwards- and forwards-compatibility for investment protection—all available through a software update

The new Polycom user experience (Polycom UX) delivers effective user experience with more than 20 new user innovations and features, including a completely redesigned UI and the industry’s most lifelike HD image quality (up to 1080p60 resolution), patent-pending Polycom SmartPairing technology, and innovative only-from-Polycom video, content sharing, and audio features, all while minimising IT management and support requirements

Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition, is the industry’s first multi-protocol, integrated software MCU that runs on industry-standard servers

Superior user experiences offered on next-generation video endpoints including new Polycom RealPresence Group Series products, new ultra-slim Polycom RealPresence VisualEdge Executive Desktop offering, and Polycom RealPresence software for PCs and mobile devices

“Our passion at Polycom is to make video collaboration simple to use and available to everyone. Today, we are introducing breakthrough solutions that we believe take ease fuse and universal access to exciting new levels, while extending and protecting investments customers have made in Polycom’s interoperable, open standards-based platform and solutions,” said Andy Miller, CEO, Polycom. “We believe this launch of next-generation video solutions will set a new industry standard for best user experience for both end users and IT administrators, and will also provide a seamless and extensible path for customers to fully video-enable their organisations. We also believe these new solutions will significantly expand our addressable market opportunity and accelerate growth for Polycom and our partners, within our installed base, and from new market opportunities within small-to-medium enterprises, and through new OEM distribution models.”