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Siemens Enterprise Communications and Polycom Announce Unified Communications Partnership
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEW YORK, NY and PLEASANTON, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/21/10 --
Siemens Enterprise
Communications Group (SEN Group), a leading global provider of unified
communications (UC) solutions, and Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), a global
leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today
announced a strategic alliance and global resale agreement that will enable
customers to leverage the productivity and cost-saving benefits of Polycom
telepresence, high definition (HD) video conferencing solutions and desktop
video collaboration applications through seamless integration with the
OpenScape UC environment. By adopting a state-of-the-art UC environment,
organizations can not only take advantage of innovative video solutions
from Polycom, but they can increase collaboration and customer
responsiveness while reducing conferencing costs and the need for employee
travel.
"Video communication is becoming a key component of UC, and helps to
dramatically improve the productivity of our customers," said Mark Stone,
chairman and chief executive officer, the SEN Group. "Working with Polycom
enables us to deliver on our Open Communications commitment and enhance our
leading OpenScape UC platform with a full range of UC-enabled video
solutions."
"Organizations across industries are adopting Polycom visual communication
to drive efficiency and effectiveness among geographically dispersed teams
and strengthen relationships with customers, partners and suppliers," said
Robert Hagerty, chairman and CEO of Polycom. "Teaming with SEN Group, we
are able to deliver these powerful collaboration capabilities within the
core communication tools that people use every day, and, as an integrated
component of the OpenScape UC solution, give customers a scalable platform
that is easy to manage and use. This supports Polycom's Open Collaboration
Network strategy and gives customers greater flexibility and investment
protection for their UC environment."
SEN Group is focused on helping customers achieve productivity and cost
savings goals by helping to ease the adoption of video solutions that can
help organizations collaborate more effectively as part of a complete,
tightly integrated UC platform. Under the global resale agreement, SEN
Group will offer Polycom's portfolio of visual communication solutions,
including award-winning personal, room and immersive telepresence
solutions, video conferencing systems, and desktop video collaboration
applications. This is supported by the industry's most scalable and
reliable visual communication infrastructure platform that delivers
centralized management and provisioning; highly scalable multi-site,
multi-network conferencing capabilities; network-aware firewall traversal;
recording, streaming and video content management; and interoperability
with other standards-based immersive telepresence systems and legacy video
conferencing equipment.
Polycom RMX series conference bridges and HDX video endpoints integrate
with the OpenScape Unified Communications Server, an innovative UC platform
that takes advantage of industry standards such as SIP and Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) to help ease integration. By leveraging a data center
approach, OpenScape voice and UC services can be over-laid in existing IT
or telephony environments, eliminating traditional barriers between
communications systems while providing unmatched scalability and
flexibility when integrating with other popular enterprise-class solutions
and devices. This allows organizations to extend the benefit of UC
features such as one number service to the desktop via Polycom conference
bridges and video endpoints.
The SEN Group will also offer customers Polycom visual communication
solutions supported by its OpenScale Services, a comprehensive portfolio of
professional and managed services and solutions. While many IT departments
may lack the skill set or resources necessary to take on the integration of
best-of-breed UC technologies, OpenScale Services are designed around
proven best practices to help organizations quickly and cost-effectively
integrate multi-vendor systems, delivering a UC environment. In addition,
SEN Group can provide 24x7 network and device monitoring from its global
Video Network Operations Center, and working with Polycom, will be able to
expand this managed services offering with dedicated, 24x7 maintenance and
technical support.
About the Polycom Open Collaboration Network
Polycom's integration efforts with SEN Group support Polycom's Open
Collaboration Network strategy, providing an open and interoperable
collaboration solution that gives customers greater flexibility and
investment protection for their UC environment. By working with SEN Group
and other leading unified communications platform providers, Polycom is able to deliver
its productivity-enhancing and cost-saving telepresence, video and voice
collaboration products as an integrated part of core unified communication
environments, making the technologies easily accessible as part of the
everyday workflow within a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy
and manage.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video,
and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people
to connect and collaborate everywhere. Visit www.polycom.com for more
information and follow us on Twitter @AllAboutPolycom.
About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group)
The SEN Group is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise
communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security
solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify
communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration
experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables
organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through
easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments,
delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's
OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and
cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores
Group and Siemens AG, SEN Group companies include Siemens Enterprise
Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks.
For more information about the SEN Group or Enterasys please visit
www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com
© 2010 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved. POLYCOM®, the Polycom
"Triangles" logo and the names and marks associated with Polycom's products
are trademarks and/or service marks of Polycom, Inc. and are registered
and/or common law marks in the United States and various other countries.
All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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Contacts:
Kevin Young
Polycom, Inc.
+1.925.924.5706
Email Contact
Silvie Casanova
Siemens Enterprise Communications
+1 978.848.4617
Email Contact
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