Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced a portfolio of Unified Communications Professional Services delivered through Polycom Global Services, Polycom Open Collaboration Network partners, and certified Polycom partners designed to help customers successfully integrate Polycom voice and visual communications solutions into their unified communications (UC) environments.
The new services further the Polycom Open Collaboration Network strategy of providing open and interoperable collaboration solutions that give customers greater flexibility and investment protection for their UC environment. By working with leaders in unified communications and networking, such as Avaya, BroadSoft, HP, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft and Siemens, Polycom is able to deliver its productivity-enhancing and cost-saving telepresence, video and voice collaboration products as an integrated part of core UC environments, making the technologies easily accessible as part of the everyday workflow within a comprehensive solution that can be provisioned and centrally managed.
Why this is important
The new Polycom UC professional services address growing demand for integrated unified communications and collaboration solutions. The services support Polycom Open Collaboration Network initiatives by enabling customers to easily deploy Polycom integrated solutions for POCN partner environments, beginning with Microsoft.
Large, Bright and Impressive, is the only way to describe the Digital Signage Show in Orlando this week. Manufacturers from around the world came to show their products. And did I mention they were bright, many times I was tempted to put on my sunglasses. Obviously these displays were designed for outdoor use.
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Desktop video is here: Clearly the major vendors are pushing it and momentum is quickly building. I believe desktop video solutions will experience significant growth this year based on several factors. The biggest drivers are low prices and SIP standards simplifying inter-organizational video dialing. Now that video over H.264 over SIP is reasonably interoperable, expect to see more video-enabled hard and soft phones. Tandberg’s booth showcased their new EX90 with the industry’s first 1080p30 desktop system. We were impressed with the quality and bang for your dollar of both Vidyo and Avistar who have launched their companies around the software based video market.
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I just attended the Tampa Bay Business Journal Transportation Panel. Tampa Mayor, Pam Iorio, gave excellent answers to how important publictransportation is to the future of Tampa Bay. The Hyatt ballroom was standing room only, as every sort of business owner and Tampa business person eagerly listened to plans for long overdue upgrades to local public transportation. The overwhelming theme was, “help us get the word out” that is, the positive word. Long term, Tampa Bay business people see the positive impact public transportation will have, but we need get involved with the social marketing that the adversaries to progress use so well. Companies need to employ their corporate Twitter, Facebook, Linked in, and blog sites to make their customers aware of what’s going on with public transportation.
The Tampa Mayor, Pam Iorio, emphasized how public transportation influences large companies to move or not move to Tampa Bay. If Tampa is going to grow and be successful, it is obvious we need to be a corporation friendly city, like many other average size cities are already doing.
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The Tampa Bay Business Journal’s March 2nd Community Conversation Breakfast will take on the critical topic of transportation, key to the future of Tampa Bay planning and growth. Now that the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority has adopted its master plan and is now seeking a funding source, longer-term issues surrounding the sector are ripe for discussion. Topics for this lively panel are likely to include light rail and route choices, high speed rail and why it is a critical part of the local transportation infrastructure development, transit-oriented development, workforce housing and even Hillsborough County’s referendum on a penny tax to fund what’s planned. As gas prices remain high, and demand for energy independence scenarios continue, what happens in the transportation sector is critical to everything from quality of life to business recruitment and retention.
This lively, candid and informative discussion will be moderated by TBBJ Editor Alexis Muellner.
Any new technology follows a business implementation curve that has become an industry expectation.
As the new technology develops, the acceptance and quality are low, and the expense and difficulty are high. As the quality increases and the expense decrease we see a large swell in acceptance and popularity. Cell phones are a prime example of this phenomenon. So the question becomes, where is video conferencing on this timeline/curve?
Since 2000, the modern video conference system has become somewhat common place. It was still plagued by unreliability of the hardware, or codec, which has the responsibility of encoding voice, video and data and decoding the same signal from a compatible far end codec. During this same period, IP connectivity was completely unpredictable, so it was always recommended to use ISDN lines, just as you would use a phone line to make a phone call.
ISDN lines and long distance charges continued to make these calls cost prohibitive, and the quality was good, not great.
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owner and Tampa business person eagerly listened to plans for long overdue upgrades to local public transportation. The overwhelming theme was, “help us get the word out” that is, the positive word. Long term, Tampa Bay business people see the positive impact public transportation will have, but we need get involved with the social marketing that the adversaries to progress use so well. Companies need to employ their corporate Twitter, Facebook, Linked in, and blog sites to make their customers aware of what’s going on with public transportation.