Polycom RealPresence Ready

Polycom RealPresence Ready is the complete solution of video conference for MSP providing the highest quality level, reliability, security and scalability at the affordable price and simple in use so necessary for the growing enterprises. The Polycom corporation aims to guarantee cross-platform interaction with solutions based on open standards. RealPresence Ready has full backward and forward compatibility with any communications system used by clients today or purchased by them in the future.

• Complexity and usability. The solution simplifies deployment and operation of a full-function visual communication system of a business class which part two room systems of Polycom of HDX 6000, one system of Polycom of HDX 7000 and five software licenses Polycom Telepresence m100 are.
• Quality, security and reliability of a business class. The solution provides a high-quality, reliable and safe communication due to Polycom UltimateHD technology and the patented innovative solutions providing complete comfort of users even in the overloaded networks. The highest quality of communication at the lowest consumption of network resources is peculiar to video systems of Polycom. Thanks to technology of coding and compression of H.264 the complete realness of video conference is reached at network transmission capacity for 50% smaller, than at alternative products.
• Profitability and minimum total cost of ownership. Thanks to a combination of competitive price of a system of initial level to the minimum total cost of ownership. The amount of monthly operating costs of the Polycom RealPresence Ready system is much less than the cost of one business trip. Solutions of Polycom are modular therefore in the long term clients from a segment of MSP will be able to complement the system with innovative components, such as cameras with automatic targeting Polycom® Eagle Eye Director, the tablet systems of telepresence Polycom telepresence m500 and the videophones Polycom VVX® 1500, as a result having constructed at the enterprise a full-fledged videosreda based on developments of Polycom. Cross-platform interaction with other systems and products which can be already set at the enterprise, is guaranteed that the systems of Polycom are based on open standards and locate the built-in integration mechanisms with the leading partners and products of the industry, including Microsoft Lync. Actually the systems of Polycom give to small or medium-sized enterprise the chance to interact with the broadest spectrum of the systems of video cooperation, thereby having prevented emergence of additional expenses.

About equipment of products of Lenovo solutions Polycom RealPresence

On January 23, 2012 Lenovo company and Polycom corporation, Inc. announced the conclusion of the strategic agreement directed to equipment of devices of Lenovo by the solutions Polycom RealPresence HD Video and HD Voice. Jointly Polycom and Lenovo will be engaged in development of the innovative solutions, using the practices in a video conferencing and ADP equipment respectively to make high-quality communication according to video to available end users irrespective of their location or the used device.

Within the agreement it is planned that a number of devices of Lenovo, including ThinkPad notebooks of the T, X, L and W series, will receive the status of Polycom-ready guaranteeing that the device will optimum work with solutions of Polycom. Lenovo will become the first company which is turning out products with the status of Polycom-ready. Besides, cooperation of Lenovo and Polycom assumes equipment of some desktop computers, notebooks and Lenovo tablets the software for joint work of Polycom RealPresence HD video and HD Voice™ as the built-in software. Besides, Lenovo will sell the equipment of Polycom for personal and group conferences that will allow buyers of products of the company to purchase ready-made solutions for the organization of communication.

Some of the models of tablets and ThinkPad notebooks offered Lenovo will be certified as Polycom-ready, namely optimized for work with the software of Polycom RealPresence Mobile and Polycom RealPresence Desktop. Polycom and Lenovo also work on equipment of products of Lenovo this software as built-in. RealPresence Desktop is the application opened by one mouse click with which the companies will be able to implement more widely collaboration in video conference among the personnel and also to carry out video conferences with other organizations and users of mobile devices without restrictions imposed by firewalls. The quality of interaction of participants of video meetings is in addition increased by the functions of sharing of content provided in RealPresence Desktop. The Polycom RealPresence Mobile application, available to free download, is the first corporate solution for tablets, capable to display video cooperation in HD video conference for traditional borders of office at the same security and comfort to which clients of Polycom got used in a conference room. The Polycom RealPresence platform – the most universal program infrastructure for collaboration in video conference is the cornerstone of technology of the organization of mobile video conferences of Polycom.

2012

Integration into IBM Sametime

The Polycom company announced a full integration of the Polycom RealPresence video platform with the latest version of IBM Sametime. Integration of video systems of Polycom into platforms of social business applications IBM Sametime and IBM Connections will help the companies to get access to the powerful opportunities of development put in technologies of social networks and web applications thanks to capability to execute video calls of interfaces of e-mail and social business applications familiar to users on standard devices of video.

Polycom RealPresence VaaS

In the summer of 2012 Polycom announced significant expansion of opportunities of the Polycom RealPresence platform which allow service providers without difficulties and is more effective from the financial point of view to provide the solution VaaS to the companies of any size. Thanks to the support of the multi-user mode and an expanded set of open application programming interfaces allowing service providers to put quicker on the market the specialized and integrated applications, Polycom reduces the cost of creation and service of open or private cloud service of video conference. The Polycom company also announces expansion of the opportunities of the RealPresence platform allowing to create more large-scale communications systems and also increasing controllability and safety of joint work using video conference, to the provided organizations working in any industry.

New opportunities of the Polycom RealPresence platform are designed to meet the growing demand for the differentiated cloud services of video conference and the solution for the joint communications providing more large-scale communications systems for service of tens of thousands of clients at the same time. Video cooperation is even more often provided as a cloud service that allows a bigger number of the organizations to take such advantage of video conference as performance improvement of work and the involvement of personnel and also to use video conference for the solution of special industry tasks, for example distance learning and telemedicine. It is more than ten service providers, including Airtel, BT, China Unicom, 8x8 and Vietnam Post and Telecommunications, already use RealPresence platform infrastructure as a basis for the offers of VaaS.

The announcement of Polycom means that service providers, independent software providers and clients will receive application programming interfaces and packets of software development (SDK) for testing, creations and deliveries of the new applications and solutions integrated with the RealPresence Platform platform — the most complete and the program UC infrastructure providing the maximum compatibility for joint work using world video conference. New application programming interfaces will help suppliers to accelerate implementation of new services thanks to simplicity of integration of the Polycom RealPresence platform with support systems of transactions and billing (OSS/BSS) and also third-party management systems for planning, billing, preparation of joint work using video conference, management of reports on resources during the conference and systems management.