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Polycom® leads with open software-based solutions that help customers avoid single-vendor lock-in

In a world of mixed technologies and many vendors, customers need solutions that interoperate in their environments today and support moving towards an ever evolving vision for tomorrow. Customers need solutions that are not limited by the constraints of proprietary technology which limits choices and results in single vendor solution lock-in. Polycom's strategy is a commitment to open standards-based interoperability across all of the elements in a communications environment – including multiple products, vendors, networks, and connection protocols. The Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform, the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration, enables best-of-breed unified communications environments that are interoperable with customers' existing Cisco investments. Customers can drive down their total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate their return on investment (ROI) through Polycom's unique ability to use as much as 50% less network bandwidth while providing 3.5 times greater resource capacity than alternatives.

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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. By leveraging multi-vendor networks rather than a single-vendor approach, enterprises can improve network capabilities while significantly reducing costs and simplifying network complexity.    

Mark Fabbi
Vice President, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

 

Polycom Products that Optimize Unified Communications with Cisco Environments

• Universal Video Collaboration

  

  The Polycom RealPresence Platform includes software for multipoint video, voice, and content collaboration connecting multiple protocols, including TIP, enabling people to connect at the highest quality for the lowest cost. The Polycom RealPresence Platform allows customers with existing Cisco TelePresence investments to easily collaborate with a wide range of Polycom video endpoints and clients.

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• Virtualization Management

  

  The Polycom RealPresence Platform includes software for managing and distributing calls across networks with the scalability, redundancy, and resiliency—up to 25,000 concurrent sessions and 75,000 device registrations on up to 64 video servers. The Polycom DMA 7000 significantly enhances a customer’s ability to intelligently load balance both Polycom RMX and Cisco Codian bridges to optimize bandwidth and bridge resource usage over a WAN. This dramatically lowers the cost of increasing video and telepresence use in your organization. In addition, SIP and H.323 gateway functionality unites what were once islands of connectivity.

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• Video Resource Management

  

  Software for multipoint video, voice, and content collaboration connects multiple protocols, enabling people to connect at highest quality for lowest cost. For example, the Polycom CMA system will neighbor to a Cisco IOS gatekeeper and allow dialing between Cisco Unified Communications Manager and the devices registered to the Polycom CMA H.323 domain.

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• Video Content Management

  

  In addition to software for secure video capture (recording and playback), content management and administration, delivery of video content can be optimized in real time or on-demand over Cisco networks with Polycom® RealPresence™ Media Manager integration with the Cisco ACNS system.

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• Polycom Room and Personal Telepresence for Cisco

  

  Polycom HDX® visual communication solutions natively integrate with the Cisco® UC environment, including support for Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP), allowing customers to deploy Polycom video endpoints that can communicate natively with Cisco TelePresence Systems (CTS). Polycom brings down the total cost of ownership for Cisco customers by enabling them to achieve HD quality at low bandwidths coupled with a low up-front cost. Polycom offers a wide range of HDX personal and room telepresence systems to fit the needs of any room size or any application.

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• Polycom® VVX® 1500 Business Media Phone

  

  Certified for Cisco® UC environments and supporting Polycom HD Voice™ calls, business quality video, and integrated applications on a color touch screen, the Polycom VVX 1500 business media phone is ideal for desktops throughout an organization.

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• Polycom Wi-Fi Communications for Cisco

  

  Polycom SpectraLink® wireless telephones deliver enterprise-grade quality, reliability and performance for on-site mobile workers using Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Leveraging Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) technology the SpectraLink wireless telephones provide a wide-range of handset features and functions with low-cost models for use in cost carpeted offices to "ruggedized" handsets for use in physically demanding facilities.

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• Polycom DECT Communications for Cisco

  

  The Polycom KIRK® Wireless Server 300 and KIRK Wireless Server 6000 deliver CUCM-certified IP DECT solutions to Cisco partners starting from SMB-size up to very large enterprises. Along with the 2 DECT solutions that are fully integrated with the Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Polycom brings the Cisco end-users a full range of professional wireless handsets that work in carpeted as well as industrial environments that need durable and rugged handsets. All handsets can be combined in one solution, which means that the individual need of the employee can be taken into consideration when choosing the right wireless DECT handset as part of the total wireless DECT solution.

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