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25 years of Polycom: A journey from voice to voice over IP

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NEW DELHI: Voice and video collaboration solutions provider Polycom is celebrating its 25th year of establishment and believes that its Soundstation remains a standard feature in small- to mid-size conference rooms globally.

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Incorporating patented Polycom technology such as HD Voice, Polycom Acoustic Clarity and Dynamic Noise Reduction, the SoundStation series of audio conferencing solutions enable lifelike high-fidelity conversations, delivering twice the clarity of ordinary phone calls, a release said.

Polycom Co-founder and Chief Evangelist, Jeff Rodman, said that the difference HD Voice brings to an audio conference is that it brings more of the human voice to communications than that traditionally carried over a standard telephone or speakerphone.

For a century, traditional telephones have carried sound in only a very narrow range, from only 3/10 kHz to 3.3 kHz. But the range of the human voice is far beyond this. Speech is important from 1/10 kHz to about 14 kHz, a span of 140 times instead of 11 times. That’s very significant because it is in these wider ranges that you find a lot– more enunciation, making sense of accented speech, separating out background noise, and being able to distinguish between similar words like ‘sailing’ and ‘failing'.

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Polycom Co-Founders Jeff Rodman and Brian Hinman conceived the design in a San Francisco basement, to begin implementing their vision for effortless human collaboration in video, audio, and content, across great distances with this first step: transparent speech collaboration from anywhere.

Sue Day, Senior Director of Marketing, Polycom Asia Pacific, states that the SoundStation’s status in meeting rooms across the world goes far beyond its extraordinary performance and iconic shape. “In my 12 year tenure at Polycom, I have received a lot of positive feedback from customers who refer to Polycom's SoundStation solution simply as ‘the Polycom’. The SoundStation is a familiar, trusted conferencing tool our customers rely on and feel comfortable operating.”

“Polycom’s legacy has been built upon the reliability and quality of our conference phones, which have set the standard in audio conferencing worldwide,” said Geoff Thomas, President, Polycom Asia Pacific. “While we have grown to become the industry leader in video and content collaboration, voice conferencing is always a core part of our direction and innovation, and is the reason that solutions like Polycom SoundStation remain iconic in modern meeting rooms and workspaces,” Day said.

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