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Polycom
Polycom: Polycom, Inc. is a global leader in unified communications (UC) solutions with industry-leading telepresence, video, voice and Polycom UC Intelligent Core™ infrastructure solutions - all built on open standards. Polycom's vision and strategy is to enable UC Everywhere - allowing people to communicate and collaborate anywhere on multiple devices. (Source: www.polycom.com)
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Free and low cost video conferencing services have widely been adopted by businesses, but there are limitations to the quality and reliability of these ‘consumer’ grade services. Until recently, ‘business grade’ video conferencing was widely considered cost prohibitive.
Recently with new solutions coming onto the market, it is possible for SMBs to experience a higher standard of video conferencing without the quality ... read more
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This research will save you time as it compares nine different Video Conferencing solutions from four Video Conferencing vendors side-by-side, these include Cisco, Logitech, Polycom and Tandberg.
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Barriers to large-scale adoption of videoconferencing in the enterprise have included complexity, poor workflow integration and lack of flexibility. Solutions must be easy to use and accommodate how and where users work to yield business benefits.
This white paper explores the potential impact of Microsoft Lync 2013 as organisations strive to make video communications and collaboration a more pervasive and instinctive part of everyday business.
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Now that you’ve decided to make the investment, like many SMBs, you may find the decision to add video conferencing capabilities much easier than figuring out how to deploy it. The technical terminology, implementation requirements, planning – it can all be overwhelming and confusing. This paper presents a series of steps that makes the process simpler, even if you don’t have a large IT department to assist in getting the technology operational.
The five steps are: read more
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Tech-research expert Bell Labs is working on a new video conferencing robot that could add physical presence to boardroom meetings using a screen and webcam attached to a set of robotic shoulders. The new technology uses low-cost components so that it can be adopted by enterprises in various sectors. Placeholder0The Netheads, as they are known, are remotely controlled by the user, who is displayed on the robot's face - a moveable flatscreen. The technology allows the read more
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Businesses want to extend their unified communications solutions - including video conferencing technologies - to the mobile workforce. According to Andreas Weinhold, vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at LifeSize, the liberation of video conferencing from it ... read more
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Whilst videoconferencing is set to be the next big thing as
faster connections and more collaboration takes place, market leaders Cisco,
who in Q2 last year held a 49.3% market share, have reported a loss in revenue,
despite increasing interest from enterprises.
This is due, it has been reported, to the "uncertain global economy
and ... read more
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New technologies announced by Polycom and Cisco could push the videoconferencing market out of its current stagnation, reports suggest. The former made an announcement in October which Polycom’s CEO Andy Miller called the "most important day in Polycom history".
Cisco also announced improvements to its collaboration suite ... read more
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Microsoft Lync is a high priority target requirement for CIOs this year, according to David Maloney of Ovum research.
According to the Ovum report , 45% of enterprises say that they are planning to extend deployment of Lync services in 2013. Whilst results are said to have been mixed so fa ... read more
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Video conferencing has begun encompassing everything you would expect from a standard, face-to-face board room meeting and Polycom has even managed to integrate digital whiteboards in to its offering. The firm hopes that this final addition will make its read more
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Video conferencing specialist Polycom has extended its partnership with software giant Microsoft in a deal that will see the latter's Lync software integrated into Polycom VoIP phones. The move is part of the pair's desire to boost video conferencing outside the boardroom.The focus wi ... read more
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Video conferencing expert Polycom has dipped its toe into the tablet marketplace as business communications solutions go increasingly mobile. The move comes as analysts predict huge growth in the unified communications marketplace.
Placeholder0Speaking to Information Week, Polycom's vice president of mobility and business development Surendra Arora said video conferencing was rapidly being integrated into a wider unified communications framework that covered everything from ... read more
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Polycom has acquired video collaboration specialist ViVu as it attempts to improve video conferencing deployment by boosting scalability. The firms will work together on embedding key applications into Polycom's unified communications offering - boosting its service adaptability.
Placeholder0Central to the new partnership will be the embedding of web-based, high-definition video in social and enterprise suites - a process that Polycom hopes will be much easier thanks to ViV ... read more
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More than three-quarters of British teachers would like access to video conferencing technology so they can have digital meetings with pupils, their parents and colleagues when face-to-face meetings are not possible. According to video conferencing specialist Polycom, the ... read more
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Online video conferencing solutions like Skype, Oovoo, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger rose to prominence because they were mostly free (often with some minor fees for added features or certain international calls) and easy to use (often via proprietary downloadable software). These low cost services have been popular with the consumer market, and are widely used by start-ups and SMBs – Skype has over 663 million registered users, with approximately 37% of these estimated to be small b ... read more
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Businesses around the globe will spend £2.3 billion on live video conferencing by 2016, according to the analyst firm Ovum . This represents a compound annual growth rate of 5.79 per cent in revenues from 2011 to 2016. With a greater emphasis on cost-cutting measures and productivity, organisations are seizing upon video confer ... read more
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Video conferencing technology has reached a point where it is more effective than traditional conference call solutions - offering much better collaboration potential, according to IDC. The research organisation said the market for telepresence and video conferencing solutions ... read more
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Video conferencing is becoming increasingly popular with enterprises at the moment, as internet speeds get faster and technology enables a better experience than ever before.
However, over the course of the past year numerous reports have sprung up questioning the security of video conferencing. This is because it’s been found that many systems are open to read more
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Competition in the Video-as-as-a-Service (VaaS)
market has increased as vendors have realised that not all enterprises can
afford their top-end videoconferencing solutions and so have introduced desktop
and mobile solutions – Video-as-a-Service – on a pay monthly basis.
"I wouldn't say it's about pricing as it is
around making sure that our customers can have a full range of products for
whatever needs they have," read more
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Despite the growing popularity of flexible working, only 60% of UK businesses offer flexible working arrangements to their staff, despite one in four office workers wanting the chance to work around family commitments and from home.
However, according to an independent study commissioned recently by Polycom, Inc., remote working is something th ... read more
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