Polycom to Unveil Telepresence Suite at Waldorf - Critical Business Collaboration for Globally Dispersed Organizations
What: Polycom is demonstrating a new, standards based telepresence
solution for New York media, industry analysts and customers.
Today's organizations are globally dispersed where 9 out of 10
people work someplace other than headquarters, up to 70 percent
work someplace other than their bosses, and there has been an
increase of 800 percent in virtual teams in the last five years,
according to NY based Nemertes Research. The Polycom RealPresence
Experience telepresence solution is a fully immersive environment
for communication and collaboration over distances, which
replicates the face-to-face communication and interactive
collaboration capabilities of an in-person meeting. Video
solutions are growing at 22 percent to be a $3 billion industry by
2010, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
Who: Join Robert Hagerty, chairman and CEO and David Phillips, senior
vice president of worldwide sales, along with Polycom customers
and industry analysts.
When: Monday, Sept. 25, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET
Where: New York - Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Avenue, NY 10022)
Telepresence addresses the growing globalization and virtualization of today's business environment. In addition, businesses are under pressure to accomplish more with tight budgets and dwindling resources, and to maintain business continuity in the face of events that impact normal operations - natural disasters, pandemics, rising oil prices, and difficulties and delays associated with business travel, which can result in lower productivity, lost opportunities and increasing costs.
The Polycom RealPresence Experience telepresence suites offer an immersive environment that makes people feel like they are in the same room with those in other locations. The symmetrically designed rooms deliver a life-like meeting experience through full sized video images, wideband StereoSurround audio and high resolution content sharing capabilities from each seat in the room. The standards-based solutions work with other desktop, laptop and room based video solutions.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCM) is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations by integrating the broadest array of video, voice, data and Web solutions to deliver the ultimate communications experience. Polycom's high quality, standards-based conferencing and collaboration solutions are easy to deploy and manage, as well as intuitive to use. Supported by an open architecture, they integrate seamlessly with leading telephony and presence-based networks. With its market driving technologies, best-in-class products, alliance partnerships, and world-class service, Polycom is the smart choice for organizations seeking proven solutions and a competitive advantage in real-time communications and collaboration.
For additional information call 1-800-POLYCOM (765-9266) or +1-408-526-9000, or visit the Polycom website at www.polycom.com
Contacts:
Jessica Kersey
Polycom, Inc.
Mobile - 650-759-1588
Kevin Young
Polycom, Inc.
Mobile - 720-273-4437
Source: Polycom, Inc.
Web site:
http://www.polycom.com/
