Polycom Marks 25 Years Of Industry Leadership By Announcing Innovative Solutions That Will Transform Collaboration Experiences And Be The First To Put People At The Heart Of Collaboration

• Polycom RealPresence Trio, the first smart hub for group collaboration that transforms the iconic three-point conference phone into a voice, content sharing and video system
• Polycom RealPresence Centro, the industry’s first unique center-of-the-workspace collaboration solution built for the natural way humans brainstorm, ideate, and solve problems
• Polycom RealPresence Debut, the first true enterprise-grade video collaboration solution for small rooms offering high quality video collaboration made simple, elegant, and affordable for smaller spaces
• Polycom also announced additional new solutions designed to bring the industry closer to the workplace of the future as well as an industry first with Microsoft Office 365

Polycom, Inc. recently unveiled innovative collaboration solutions at an exclusive customer event in New York focused on advancing the workplace of the future within organizations across the globe.

“Work” has drastically changed from a place we go to - into something that we do, irrespective of time, location and devices we use. Traditional offices and meeting rooms are giving way to open, team and mobile spaces as well as small/huddle rooms, all of which present challenges for effective collaboration. In order for collaboration and teamwork to thrive in the workplace of the future, organizations need the right tools. Globalization, productivity gains, time to market, cost control, maximizing and attracting the right talent are all fundamentals that organizations are managing on a day-to-day basis. Collaborative solutions need to be easy to use and fit into any size workspace. Polycom’s latest solution announcements are engineered to uniquely address these challenges with elegance and simplicity enabling customers to collaborate more effectively across a broader array of workspaces.

Polycom RealPresence Trio, the smart hub for all meeting spaces - Polycom RealPresence Trio is the first smart hub for group collaboration that transforms the iconic three-point conference phone into a voice, content-sharing and video system that can fit into any team environment. Meetings start quickly with one-touch integration with calendars, where the most advanced audio performance provides the clearest and richest connection in the industry. Participants can easily pair mobile devices or laptops to RealPresence Trio to share content in HD quality. Add a simple webcam and now RealPresence Trio is a full visual collaboration solution that turns any space into a high-powered work hub. Easy to deploy, RealPresence Trio also integrates with Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business as well as multiple unified communications environments including BroadSoft and Cisco.

Polycom RealPresence Centro, at the center of human collaboration - trial and research conducted by Polycom illustrated while more traditional conference room settings are utilized in greater number, more flexible collaborative environments are preferred for more open and effective collaboration. Polycom RealPresence Centro is the industry’s first collaboration solution purpose-built to put people at the center of collaboration, keying on instinctual human behavior to gather in a circle, enabling teams to meet in a circle, brainstorm and work together to achieve key business objectives. Polycom’s patented 360-degree voice and video technology is optimal for group brainstorming and ideation, and the intuitive touch screens make it simple to get a meeting started on time every time. RealPresence Centro also offers wireless pairing with many devices, and has unique built-in proximity sensors to enable responsive and intelligent interaction.

“We believe Centro will revolutionize how people will collaborate,” said Gus Mommers, IT Director, NIAS Manager, NATO Communications and Information Agency, NCIA.

Polycom RealPresence Debut brings enterprise grade video collaboration to the huddle room with a focus on simplicity and affordability . (HYPERLINK), - RealPresence Debut’s easy, elegant design enables high quality visual collaboration for huddle and smaller room environments, as well as for small or medium sized businesses with limited IT resources. Set up time takes just minutes and the user interface has been designed with simplicity in mind to enable anyone to start and manage a call. The all-in-one design incorporates Polycom’s superb audio quality including Noise Block technology, a built in pan, tilt and zoom camera and 1080p quality video and content sharing for an experience that is unmatched at the price point.

Polycom RealPresence Medialign, a turnkey Polycom Group Series solution for multiple work environments - Polycom RealPresence Medialign enables consistent collaboration solutions across the enterprise without the need alter the room in any way. RealPresence Medialign’s modern, all-in-one design is the only solution that features Polycom’s industry-leading and patented voice, content-sharing/management and video technology. RealPresence Medialign can be quickly installed without tools and interoperates with the broadest array of UC platforms in the market. Like every RealPresence Group Series solution, Medialign features unique Polycom NoiseBlock technology, Polycom Acoustic Fence audio technology and Polycom EagleEye Producer and EagleEye Director camera technology that provide an unmatched experience.

Polycom RealPresence Concierge, the first enterprise deployable solution that instantly connects your mobile device to solutions across Polycom’s collaboration portfolio for ease of conference control (HYPERLINK) - Polycom is introducing the industry’s first enterprise deployable system that allows users to bring personal devices, including personal PCs and smartphones to Polycom solutions. RealPresence Concierge enables user devices to be at the center of meeting control, wirelessly connecting to Polycom solutions including RealPresence Group Series, RealPresence Medialign, Polycom Open Telepresence Experience rooms and RealPresence Immersive studios. Upon entering the room, users will experience familiar interface for conference control and content sharing, personalizing the group meeting. Participants can easily invite additional participants, adjust the volume and far-end camera angles or mute active participants all from an application on their own device. Concierge allows users to share content from their devices and even see content shared from others – up close on their own device

New Solutions for Microsoft O365 Environments The company officially announced today that the industry leading portfolio of Polycom VVX business media phones will be the first phones to support and interoperate with the forthcoming cloud voice service offering as part of Microsoft Office 365 (to link to landing page of Cloud-ready phones going live Oct 1). Today’s announcement further expands the company’s long-standing relationship with Microsoft and builds on the more than 40 Polycom solutions that deeply integrate with Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business. Earlier this year, Polycom and Microsoft announced a partnership to develop joint solutions for Skype for Business with the RoundTable 100 being the first. See Polycom’s solutions for Skype for Business on Microsoft’s catalogue.

“People work differently today. And they work in different places. Ideally, technology should allow customers to make any location a mobile workstation. But few solutions on the market today address the business and workflow issues that come with the next generation workplace,” said Ira M. Weinstein, senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research. “Polycom’s new releases challenge the notion that work happens in traditional meeting rooms only. Instead, these solutions bring collaboration to the places customers want to work including small meeting rooms and informal meeting spaces.”

Polycom’s new solutions expand the company’s rich collaboration product and services portfolio that fully interoperates with the broadest set of ecosystem partners and provides customers the opportunity to build a comprehensive culture of collaboration and to make the workplace of the future a reality. From network assessment, to planning and designing to deployment and ongoing operations, Polycom and its partners provide customers a full suite of services to ensure they maximize their investment. With Polycom solutions, customers also have a broad array of deployment and business model choices from on premise and from a managed to a public cloud, and from capital (capex) to operational expense (opex) options.

About Polycom
Polycom helps organizations unleash the power of human collaboration. More than 415,000 companies and institutions worldwide defy distance with secure video, voice and content solutions from Polycom to increase productivity, speed time to market, provide better customer service, expand education and save lives. Polycom and its global partner ecosystem provide flexible collaboration solutions for any environment that deliver the best user experience, the broadest multi-vendor interoperability and unmatched investment protection. For more information, visit www.polycom.com.