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Polycom Introduces RealPresence Platform for Universal Video Collaboration

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Polycom, the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), has introduced the Polycom RealPresence Platform, a comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration. The platform powers Polycom's market-leading HD telepresence and video solutions, ensuring integration with hundreds of unified communications and social networking applications. This open-standards approach enables seamless collaboration across different vendors, networks, and devices, reducing bandwidth consumption by up to 50 percent compared to other solutions.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a software infrastructure that powers Polycom's market-leading HD telepresence and video solutions, enabling universal video collaboration across different vendors, networks, and devices.
  • The platform integrates with hundreds of unified communications and social networking applications, including Microsoft Lync 2010, IBM Sametime, and Jive's social business platform.
  • The RealPresence Platform reduces bandwidth consumption by up to 50 percent compared to other solutions, making it a cost-effective option for enterprises.
  • The platform provides security, reliability, management, and massive scalability to support video as a cloud-based service to enterprises, SMBs, and consumers.
  • The RealPresence Platform delivers enterprise ease of use and carrier-grade reliability and scalability, currently supporting up to 25,000 concurrent sessions and 75,000 device registrations.
  • Polycom is partnering with telecommunications providers to deliver video as a service from the cloud, with the Open Visual Cloud Consortium aiming to provide high-quality connectivity across service provider networks.
  • The Polycom RealPresence Platform integrates with a broad partner ecosystem, including solutions from Adobe, AT&T, Cisco WebEx, Citrix, IBM, and Microsoft, among others.
  • The platform acts as the central hub in a UC environment, working with communications and business applications from hundreds of vendors, enabling customers to choose best-of-breed products and ensuring interoperability.

Statistics:

  • The Polycom RealPresence Platform currently supports up to 25,000 concurrent sessions and 75,000 device registrations.
  • The platform reduces bandwidth consumption by up to 50 percent compared to other solutions.
  • Polycom has partnered with 14 global service providers to deliver video as a service from the cloud through the Open Visual Cloud Consortium.
  • The RealPresence Platform integrates with a broad partner ecosystem, including solutions from over 100 vendors.

Sources:

  • "Polycom Introduces RealPresence Platform to Bring Video Collaboration to the Enterprise" - prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8795563.htm (14 September 2011)
  • "Polycom Unveils Software Strategy to Drive Global Adoption of HD Video Collaboration through Open Standards" - polycom.com/about/polycom-news/pr/2011/0905-software-strategy-announcement.html (5 September 2011)
  • "Polycom Unveils New Video Collaboration Solution for the Enterprise" - polycom.com/about/polycom-news/pr/2011/0902-realpresence-platform-announcement.html (2 September 2011)
  • Polycom's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 - sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1068571/000010685711000013/0000106857-11-000013-ex15a.htm

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