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17/11/2011 - Polycom takes another step to drive video-conferencing interoperability

Ask anyone in the videoconferencing industry what the single biggest hurdle to its adoption is and you'll likely get the same answer: interoperability.

That's no real surprise, but the sudden push by vendors to make their product play nice with everybody else is.

The latest convert to the interoperability bandwagon is, not surprisingly, Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM). Polycom was a founding member of the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC), an association of industry players--including companies like AT&T (NYSE: T), BCS Global, Bharti Airtel, BT Conferencing, Dialogic, Orange Business Services, Teliris, Telstra and Verizon (NYSE: VZ)--working to bring standards to the videoconferencing industry.

This week the company announced a new software update that allows customers using Polycom and other standards-based video collaboration solutions to join calls with non-standard Cisco TelePresence Systems, and vice-versa. The latest RealPresence Platform software update, released Wednesday, also further extends interoperability across Microsoft and IBM UC environments.

"This is a great win for anyone using video collaboration," said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, executive vice president and general manager of UC solutions and chief development officer at Polycom. "Our support for TIP is freeing users of non-standard Cisco telepresence by allowing them to connect to millions of other standards-based video systems that are deployed worldwide."

The company said the move "further establishes Polycom as the leader of open standards and interoperability and provides investment protection for our customers."

Gartner VP and analyst Mark Fabbi agrees. "Enterprises need to ensure they use open and interoperable protocols between network building blocks to ensure that they can achieve a high degree of functionality while preserving or migrating their existing investments," he said, adding that by leveraging multi-vendor networks, enterprises can improve network capabilities while significantly reducing costs and simplifying network complexity.

The latest Polycom software releases include full native TIP support for video calls, and extended support for H.323 and SIP networks, which allow organizations to access shared UC environments such as IBMSametime and Microsoft Lync, even if participants are using legacy systems.

The software update eliminates the need for gateways and licenses, trimming costs and making it less complex, allows organizations to simply dial into a videoconference virtual meeting room.

Increasingly, companies are discovering that enterprise customers, and their little brothers, SMBs, are eager to dive into the videoconferencing pool, but they want to know what the bottom line is, and to make sure that their investment will be as flexible and as cutting edge a year from now as it is today.

Polycom and it's fellow OVCC members are trying to future proof their technology, and that's going to help them take a bigger share of the market.--Jim

19/09/2011 - Polycom sees video conferencing future in software, rebrands platform

The fight for share in the videoconferencing market continues to heat up; newcomers to the market are bringing cheaper, higher quality solutions to once wary businesses looking to get on board.

Industry stalwart Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM), at last week's ITExpo, said it was backing a trend away from expensive hardware endpoints to more affordable software solutions. The company rolled out its own software strategy that it said would bring secure HD video collaboration to the broadest range of business, video, mobile and social networking applications through a standards-based infrastructure.

Polycom said the plan would redefine the unified communications market and accelerate adoption of its software. The company called the strategy key and said it was expecting to double the company's current run rate of approximately $1.5 billion to $3 billion in the next few years.

"Our software is at the core of enabling a highly differentiated customer experience," said Andy Miller, president and CEO of Polycom.

As part of its new strategy, Polycom rebranded its IC Intellegent Core video collaboration software. The product now will be called RealPresence Platform, and will, Polycom said, take an open-standards approach to integrate with various unified communications applications.

For more:
- see this release
- see this CRN article

24/03/2011 - Polycom Announces Acquisition of Accordent Technologies

Unified Communications provider Polycom has announced the acquisition of Accordent Technologies, a provider of video content management and delivery solutions, for approximately $50 million in cash. Polycom expects this acquisition to be neutral to earnings in 2011 and slightly accretive to earnings in 2012.

23/03/2011 - Motorola teams up with Polycom for Xoom video telepresence app

Editor's Note: It is rumored that an iPhone and general Android video client will be released as well. This is a great move on Polycom's part to make you able to connect tablets and smart phones to corporate video conferencing systems.

Motorola has teamed up with the unified communications (UC) company Polycom to deliver telepresence for its Xoom tablet. Polycom's standards based telepresence video application will be featured on the Xoom, offering enterprise class, high-definition teleconferencing.

This should give the Xoom a big boost in the business market, where Apple leads at the moment with the Ipad and RIM is hoping to dominate with its Playbook tablet. The telepresence software features UC Intelligent Core infrastructure, which allows users to connect easily without extra network configuration.

It also allows users to easily and securely connect to existing teleconferencing devices. Both companies cited the potential benefits of using telepresence software on tablets, as it allows direct communication between employees at an office and employees on the go, making collaboration easier.

They hinted that future Motorola tablets will also feature Polycom's telepresence software, suggesting also that the Xoom will be only the first of many tablet devices from Motorola. Polycom's telepresence service will be available on Motorola's Xoom tablet in the second half of this year.

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18/10/2010 - 8x8 Partners With Polycom

8x8 announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Polycom enabling it to offer Polycom's IP telephony and conferencing solutions to 8x8 Virtual Office hosted VoIP subscribers.

09/09/2010 - Leading Technology Companies Announce HD Voice Initiative in the U.K.

XConnect, Polycom, BroadSoft and Dialogic announced an initiative to promote the adoption of high-definition voice by service providers in the United Kingdom. Through workshops and cooperative communication and marketing, the HD initiative is designed to raise awareness and educate service providers about the benefits of HD voice and help them resolve implementation challenges.

01/07/2010 - Video Conferencing's Coming Boom: Polycom CEO Predicts Rapid Growth

The telecommunications industry has been touting videoconferencing technology since at least 1964, when AT&T displayed its Picturephone at the New York World's Fair. In fact, the concept of the videophone is nearly as old as the phone itself, and prototypes predate the Beatles by many decades.

Given its long history, one might have expected that the public would have latched onto the technology, but that just hasn't been the case. While new modes of communication, from email to texting, instant messaging and wireless phones have been adopted at astonishing rates, video communications have lagged -- at least until now.

Thanks to a combination of better technology, lower prices and faster Internet connections, video communications finally are moving into the mainstream. "The industry is at an inflection point," says Andy Miller, CEO of Polycom (PLCM), an industry leader based in Pleasanton, Calif.

"In the past, video communications was mostly a boardroom technology, but that is rapidly changing," Polycom roughly splits the $2 billion market with its Norwegian rival Tandberg, which Cisco (CSCO) acquired earlier this year. Revenue growth for the industry is rising up, according to Miller. He expects the company to grow about 40% this year. IDC (IDC) predicts the compound annual growth rate for the industry for the next five years will be about 23%, roughly twice as fast as during the previous five.

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07/06/2010 - Polycom launches Open Telepresence Experience 300 and H.264 High Profile compression support

Polycom made a few announcements this week with the launch of a new telepresence solution and support for a more efficient video compression technology.

Polycom's Open Telepresence Experience (OTXTM) 300 is an immersive telepresence solution delivers full 1080p video at up to half the bandwidth of comparable systems and, according to the company offers the lowest total cost of ownership.

The cost savings of the new Polycom OTX 300 comes partly from its ability to support high-definition video using up to 50 percent less bandwidth than competing solutions through Polycom's implementation of H.264 High Profile--a new video compression technology. As of the announcement, Polycom could claim to be the only company able to offer the new compression standard.

"Polycom telepresence helps customers address the increasingly critical challenge of collaborating across multiple locations," said Andrew Miller, president and CEO, Polycom in the release. "Using telepresence, Polycom customers save millions of dollars a year by improving productivity and reducing the need to travel. In addition, we estimate a mid-sized enterprise will spend up to $2.1M less in the first year of a typical Polycom telepresence deployment--including equipment, bandwidth, services and maintenance--versus a comparable deployment from Cisco."

For more:
- read this release
- and this one

29/03/2010 - Rumor Mill: Siemens Enterprise and Polycom to merge?

According to a report in the Financial Times, private equity firm The Gores Group may be courting Polycom to merge with Siemens Enterprise Communications. The private equity group owns a 51 percent stake in Siemens Enterprise. The report noted that Polycom is the only major publicly own videoconferencing company left after Cisco acquireed TANDBERG.

The Financial Times report claims that another private equity group Apax was in talks about buying Polycom, but the talks dissolved when the group failed to make an offer. When word of the talks got around, Gores sent a note to Polycom addressing the idea of merging with Siemens Enterprise Communications.

Polycom has been signing partnership deals for videoconferencing and interoperability (including one with Siemens) in order to combat the recent consolidation of its competitors.

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- read the article

17/03/2010 - Polycom announces Mac support for desktop video conference package

Company announced Monday Mac OS X support for its CMA Desktop collaboration application. The expanded support for the Mac means Mac users will be able to participate with other video conferencing users from their desktop over IP.

Says Joe Sigrist, VP and GM of video solutions, "Polycom CMA Desktop sets a new standard for flexibility, performance and interoperability for desktop video collaboration and we are happy to deliver on customer demand, particularly in the education, healthcare, creative services and entertainment markets, for Mac OS X support."
The CMA Desktop system offers management and security options for presenters and participants, and can be scaled to support thousands of participants. The old fashioned way of running Polycom runs on dedicated hardware over ISDN. Over time that has moved to IP-based for considerable cost savings, and even more so going to desktops rather than dedicated stand-alone system.

The Polycom CMA Desktop for Mac OS X is expected to be available in April for no extra charge for CMA customers. No pricing is provided, just that users should contact Polycom or their Polycom solution provider.

Polycom Desktop CMA

04/03/2010 - REDCOM completes SIP interoperability testing with Polycom phones

REDCOM Laboratories, a designer of digital and IP-enabled telecom systems, completed its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interoperability testing for their HDX and SLICE 2100 Carrier-Class 4/5 softswitches with a number of SoundPoint IP phones from telepresence solutions provider Polycom.

REDCOM was able to verify 100 percent integration between the Polycom VoIP phones and REDCOM's HDX and SLICE 2100 SIP platforms after thorough testing. REDCOM engineers assured commercial customers that the phones and call platforms could be deployed together problem-free--highlighting that despite SIP being a standard that promotes compatibility, testing is still important.

"SIP is supposed to be a standard that eliminates many of the challenges with integrating systems from different vendors, but interoperability is not something that can be assumed or taken for granted," said Gerald Totsline, Director of Engineering, REDCOM in a release. "SIP interoperability testing is a good method of verification to ensure that when two SIP-based solutions are actually deployed that they will work together flawlessly."

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- read the release

21/01/2010 - Polycom and Siemens announce UC partnership

The great thing Unified Communications (UC) is its propensity to bring various pieces of the puzzle together by getting companies with complementary services to team up. Today at IT Expo, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group) and Polycom announced their new UC partnership.

Under the strategic alliance and global resale agreement, Siemens will be adding Polycom's telepresence, high definition video conferencing solutions and desktop video collaboration applications to its OpenScape UC platform. Siemens will also be offering its customers Polycom video communication solutions under the reseller agreement and both SEN Group and Polycom will offer 24/7 monitoring and support for the products where customer IT teams lack the knowledge of dealing with the systems.

"Video communication is becoming a key component of UC, and helps to dramatically improve the productivity of our customers," said Mark Stone, chairman and chief executive officer of the SEN Group in the release. "Working with Polycom enables us to deliver on our Open Communications commitment and enhance our leading OpenScape UC platform with a full range of UC-enabled video solutions."

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30/11/2009 - British Telecom and Polycom sign three-year deal for videoconferencing partnership

Polycom and BT have announced a worldwide three-year agreement designed to accelerate the growth of audio and video conferencing within the corporate and public sector industries. Under this global agreement, the companies will combine Polycom's voice, video and telepresence products with BT's managed services and global MPLS network.

The products will include jointly developed systems to enable business-to-business collaboration for multinational companies, large organisations, and SMEs.

BT and Polycom have collaborated on software development that brings BT's Bridge Connect services to the scalable Polycom RMX conference infrastructure. This joint development on the Polycom RMX also allows BT to deliver VNOC services and intercompany B2B services, through BT's Global Video Exchange, in support of Polycom telepresence systems. Additionally, Polycom RMX has been chosen by BT in the company's initiative to upgrade existing video bridging infrastructure.

Source: AV Interactive

12/10/2009 - Video: Stephen Covey uses Polycom Telepresence

Check out this video of business guru, Stephen Covey using Polycom Telepresence technology:

07/10/2009 - Tandberg-Cisco deal puts Polycom in play?

Editor's Note: Polycom is for certain in play being such a large platform independent voice and video hardware manufacturer. I have been brainstorming what this means having the 8,000 pound gorilla now in the video conferencing market in such a major way with an army of sales people and marketing. If anyone have $3 billion and what to make a company to really take on this challenge, please contact me (I am very serious). I have already had some wealth managers call me asking my thoughts on this acquisition.

Cisco Systems Inc's overture for Norway's Tandberg puts U.S.-based Polycom Inc in play as it is the only public company now left in the video conferencing market. Polycom could also be gravitating toward selling itself as the threat of competing with a behemoth like Cisco looms large, analysts said. On October 1, network equipment maker Cisco said it entered a deal to buy Tandberg for $3 billion.

Polycom might be the best bet left for companies that want to tap the fast-growing video conferencing products market, worth about $2 billion in 2008. Cisco's peers might also want to play catch-up as a key high-growth market ends up in their rival's lap.

"Video has become strategic and there's a limited place to play it," Piper Jaffray analyst Troy Jensen said. "Now that Tandberg is getting acquired, maybe it accelerates the timeframe."

"Polycom is a logical acquisition target for someone," Jensen added.

Polycom and Tandberg control three-fourths of the video conferencing products market. The rest of the market is fragmented with firms like Cisco, with its Telepresence products, Hewlett-Packard and privately held LifeSize rounding it out.

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16/04/2009 - Polycom Q1 revenues, profit slip

Polycom reported first-quarter earnings Wednesday showing declines in revenues and income compared to Q1 2008, but strong increases in telepresence and systems revenues on a year-over-year basis. Polycom reported $225.4 million in net revenues for the first quarter of 2009, down 13 percent from the $258.9 million in revenues the company reported for Q1 2008. The company's 2009 first-quarter GAAP net income was $8 million, compared to $14.2 million in the same quarter in 2008.

Polycom CEO Robert Hagerty said the economic environment was to blame for the dip in revenues and earnings, but that the company's core business drivers remained strong. He touted 45 percent year-over-year growth in telepresence solutions and said new product launches would help expand the company's market opportunity.

Polycom CFO Michael Kourey said the company has adjusted its cost structure to maintain operating margins in the face of slipping revenue. Kourey said Polycom remains in very strong financial shape, as it posted its 45^th consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow, and has $338.7 million in cash and investments and no debt.

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- see the press release here

09/03/2009 - Polycom releases business desktop video phone - VVX 1500

Polycom, Inc., the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, has redefined desktop communications with the introduction of its first business media phone, the Polycom VVX(TM) 1500. The VVX 1500 is the first device of its kind -- a business media phone that combines a personal video conferencing system with a fully featured voice over IP (VoIP) telephone with Polycom HD Voice(TM) and an open application programming interface (API) and microbrowser for real-time delivery of personalized Web content as well as integration with key business applications.

All of these features are seamlessly integrated with an intuitive color touch-screen interface to enhance personal productivity, simplify multimedia communications, improve team collaboration, and reduce travel costs.

"We anticipate that within five years, nearly 10 million business media phones will be shipped worldwide, generating more than U.S. $3 billion in annual revenue. They are a key to the future of the IP PBX business," commented Keith Nissen, principal analyst at In-Stat. "With its rich heritage in voice and visual communications and content sharing, Polycom is well positioned to be a leader in this new world of communications. The company's VVX 1500 is the first business media phone that enables customers to work more efficiently and effectively than ever before by tying together voice and visual communication with critical business processes."

BroadSoft, a leading provider of VoIP applications and a long-standing partner of Polycom, has been integral in bringing the VVX 1500 to market. "There is growing demand from our service providers and customers to help them configure video within our BroadWorks call control platform," said Mike Tessler, CEO of BroadSoft. "We have a long history of teaming with Polycom to deliver high quality hosted VoIP solutions, and the VVX 1500 is especially compelling because it goes far beyond the functionality of a traditional video phone by combining rich telephony, business-class video and an applications platform that is all deeply integrated with the BroadWorks platform, and it is extremely easy to use."

Initiate voice and video calls with the simple touch of the screen

By combining voice and video into a single personal device with an intuitive touch-screen interface, the VVX 1500 simplifies communications while delivering a truly collaborative experience. With a large color LCD display and Polycom HD Voice technology, the VVX 1500 enables high-resolution, face-to-face collaboration without requiring travel, delivering a compelling return on investment.

Companies can reduce their carbon footprint and become more environmentally responsible by using Polycom's voice and visual communication solutions and allowing their geographically dispersed workforce to meet virtually -- anytime and from anywhere. In addition to the inherently green nature of video conferencing, the VVX 1500 was specifically designed for lower power consumption, using power over Ethernet (PoE), and requires less than half the power of similar competing products such as traditional video phones. The device's smart-motion technology enables the screen to go into power-save mode when no one is in the office.

Access business information at-a-glance

The VVX 1500 features an open API and microbrowser that enable third-party application developers to integrate VVX 1500 with business applications such as unified communications, customer relationship management (CRM), and appointment management systems. The always-on, touch-screen user interface of the VVX 1500 includes a menu screen on which developers can place icons for users to locate and start their applications.

The VVX 1500 comes bundled with several applications including the Polycom Productivity Suite, which enables users to initiate and control audio conference calls right from the device's screen as well as record calls locally using a flash drive in the phone's USB port. The VVX 1500 also features a free Web service called My Info Portal through which customers can select to receive content such as local weather reports and other personalized information on the screen when the device is not in a voice or video call.

Broad interoperability with the leading VoIP Platforms

The VVX 1500 uses the same Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software as incorporated in Polycom's SoundPoint IP and SoundStation IP desktop and conference phone product lines to communicate with SIP based IP PBX and hosted call servers. The product is in the process of being SIP video-certified by Polycom's ecosystem of more than 30 VIP and VoIP Field Verified call control partners, including BroadSoft, Deltapath, NEC Sphere, Objectworld, and Zultys.

"Our customers consistently seek better leverage of their communication systems to improve productivity and reduce costs. They also expect Polycom to continuously deliver innovative, intuitive products to market," said Sunil Bhalla, senior vice president and general manager of Voice Communications Solutions at Polycom. "Our leadership and legacy in both voice and video communications enables us to develop a truly unique device. The VVX 1500 is the business media phone to combine a superior business-grade VoIP telephone that features our renowned HD Voice with one-touch video and access to key enterprise applications. We are delighted propel collaborative communications to the next level with this ground-breaking device."

Polycom VVX 1500 Overview Video

http://media.polycom.com/global/videos/polycom_business_media_phone_video.wmv

Availability & Pricing

The Polycom VVX 1500 will be available this month through Polycom's channel partner network at a list price of U.S. $1,099. To learn more about the Polycom VVX 1500.

Source: Polycom Inc.

03/03/2009 - Polycom releases HD 8006 and QDX6000 Video Conferencing Solution

Starting in March, VideoCentric's new demonstration suite will boast Polycom's two newest systems …The Full-HD 8006 model and the Hi-Res (4CIF) QDX6000 model enabling customers to compare them with other standard and high definition systems from Polycom as well as with those from the other leading manufacturers, Tandberg, SONY, Emblaze-VCON and Lifesize.

VideoCentric will also be demonstrating both new models at customer's own premises across England, Scotland and Wales using high speed public internet connections or a customer's own data network.

When asked about the entry-level Polycom system, David Shimell, Sales Director for VideoCentric said, "The low price and high performance of the QDX 6000, particularly where internet bandwidth is limited, makes it easy for small organisations to justify purchasing two or three systems to gain a rapid return on their investment (RoI).

Those who have never conferenced before, or those that have had poor quality experiences in the past will benefit immediately from increased productivity, faster decision making, smarter working practices and lower travel costs at a time when efficiency of staff and resources needs to be at a premium". He added, "The ability to also show an image from a PC, a DVD player or visualiser on the same screen, a second screen or a projector as well as enjoying CD-quality audio and high resolution video makes it ideal for organisations who need to discuss any visual material with fine detail such as textiles, architect drawings, manufacturing plans, web page design, financial spreadsheets, graphs, charts, forecasts as well as for transmitting live SMART Board annotations for corporate training and school teaching applications".

The high-end HDX8006 offers the same extensive feature-set but with Full 1080-P HD capability for those with higher levels of bandwidth on their LAN, WAN, VPN, MPLS networks. It comes complete with a new Polycom Eagle-Eye camera (based on the excellent Sony HD1 optical technology) and can support HD multi-way videoconferencing without the need for an external MCU, although for bandwidth efficiency reasons,

VideoCentric still recommends hosting a separate high performance MCU at its data centre where plentiful bandwidth can be assured and where the same bridging unit can be shared by other regional divisions parts of the same organisation or with external customers & suppliers, thereby avoiding issues surrounding video firewall management and inter-IT-department conflict.

To book a demonstration on QDX6000 or HDX8006 or to receive pricing and technical specifications on these products or suitable multipoint controllers (MCUs), please log into www.videocentric.co.uk and follow the links.
For specification details on the HDX8006 click on ...
http://www.videocentric.co.uk/videoconferencing/polycom-videoconferencing/board-room/polycom-hdx-8000.shtml
For specification details on the HDX8006 click on ...
http://www.videocentric.co.uk/videoconferencing/polycom-videoconferencing/meeting-room/polycom-qdx-6000.shtml

19/02/2009 - Daimler Trucks to deploy Polycom HDX 4000 video conferencing solution

Polycom, a US-based provider of video and voice communications solutions, has announced that Daimler Trucks is standardizing on Polycom's high-definition video conferencing solutions for its board and directors.

According to Polycom, its HDX 4000 and associated infrastructure solutions support a more efficient decision-making process without the need for extensive travel.

Daimler Trucks selected Polycom to cut cost and improve efficiency. With many of the board members and directors being geographically dispersed at different locations worldwide, the systems are expected to pay quickly for themselves when executives choose to avoid international trips and elect to use video instead.

Robert Hagerty, president, CEO and chairman of Polycom, said: "Polycom is delighted to see our important customer Daimler embrace visual communication for its ability to reduce operating costs and improve productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of its executives."

Source: Automotive Business Review

05/02/2009 - Polycom rolls out QDX 6000 video conferencing system

Polycom is introducing a videoconferencing package for small businesses that have low-bandwidth WAN connections. The QDX 6000 system includes a codec, two microphones, a 4CIF standard definition camera, remote control and cables. The gear does not support telepresence, the immersive audio/video technology that creates the illusion participants are sitting across the table from each other.

But the system is designed to make the most of low-speed Internet connections and tighter budgets of smaller businesses, Polycom says. Integrated lost-packet recovery technology can maintain conference quality with as much as 10% packet loss, making it suitable for connections over the Internet. With a 256Kbps connection, the system can support 20 frames per second video; at 384Kbps it supports 30 fps video.

The product is compatible with videoconferencing gear made by Lifesize, Tandberg, Sony and Aethra. It supports video standards H.261, H.263 and H.264. AES Encryption for the audio, video and data streams is supported.

Management of the QDX 6000 is done system by system so deployments should be restricted to a few units that can be handled manually without a management platform.

Source: CIO India

23/01/2009 - VoIP Phones Help Polycom To $ 1.1 Billion Revenue Record

Polycom has announced record revenues of USD $1.1bn for 2008.
The company said VoIP phones continued to be one of its fastest growing product lines in 2008, as customers put out dollars to implement a "money saving solution".

26/11/2008 - Harborview Medical deploys Polycom video conference system

Harborview Medical Center has selected a new unified communications, call center system and video telepresence from Polycom and Avaya that is intended to help physicians and staff serve non-English-speaking patients effectively and efficiently.

To improve the scheduling issues and enhance care for patients for whom English is not the primary language, Harborview tried phone-based interpreting using a centralized staff of interpreters. While the system was efficient, the voice-only service lacked the ability for the interpreter to see the patient and doctor and vice versa - an important visual component that's crucial during diagnosis and that helps build trust, said Avaya.

The recent addition of the Avaya video telephony with Polycom video conferencing is expected to enable the hospital to triple the volume of patient visits a call center-based interpreter can manage daily. The system, managed for Harborview by the University of Washington, integrates the university's Avaya Communication Manager IP Telephony and Contact Center applications with Polycom video endpoints on agent desktops in the interpretive services call center and on mobile carts in a pilot clinic. The video and audio clarity allows interpreters to clearly see and hear patients, including the important subtleties in both verbal and non-verbal communication, according to Avaya.

Source: CBR Online

21/11/2008 - The Future Of HD VoIP Is Video

HD VoIP is rapidly gaining followers but the possibilities for excellent sound quality aren't its only benefits.
Jeffery Rodman, Polycom co-founder and CTO of the Voice Division, believes that video will quickly become a "must-have" feature of HD voice technology.

04/11/2008 - Polycom promoting "going green" with its video conferencing solution

Polycom regional sales manager Dan Engel explains that video conferencing solutions enable companies to conduct face-to-face meetings using regular Internet protocol (IP), or public telephone networks, without leaving the office. This decreases the carbon footprint of companies by avoiding the large quantities of carbon dioxide (CO₂) that would be emitted if participants were required to attend meetings and events by car and aeroplanes.

"Polycom removes the barrier of distance for companies," says Engel.

He points out that many South African companies have offices situated in more than one major city. Polycom's high definition visual communication technology allows people in different locations to conduct fully interactive meetings with good image and audio quality and to share documents digitally, without losing eye contact or having to travel.

He proposes that there are a number of advantages to using visual communication technology. The first is the opportunity for businesses to go green and help preserve the planet for future generations.

The second advantage of Polycom's visual communication technology is the time that it saves. The technology reduces the time and productivity lost by flights, queuing, renting cars and driving to a specified destination.

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