Polycom: A Real Life Experience

In today's cutthroat competition, enterprises constantly need
to increase productivity, reduce costs and save time. Conferencing solutions
have constantly helped companies in achieving these objectives, and have kept
evolving to make the experience as near to real life as possible. From plain
vanilla conferencing to enabling collaborations and other sharing applications,
conferencing solutions have come a truly long way in giving the users what they
want.

Polycom showcased its RPX 400 series for the first time in
London on February 9, 2007. It is another evolution in the conferencing
technology, which takes the user experience to an all-together new level.
Acoustically tuned environment, life size video conferencing capabilities, near
DVD quality and eye-connect techniques makes conferencing a different
experience.

"Other than the audio visual features, RPX 400 has low cost
of ownership and connects to as many sites as you wish, which is a great benefit
for the enterprise users" says Yugal Sharma, country manager India and
SAARC, Polycom.

The first Polycom real presence system was set up in 1999 and
presently there are 35-40 around the world. In India, AOL and Time warner, 2 in
Bangalore and another in Hyderabad, have deployed these solutions.

Personal Touch

A class apart from the traditional videoconferencing solutions, RPX 400
series provides high definition video experience without any extra effort by the
users. The codecs used allow communication with any H.323 videoconferencing
system and expansion to other industry trends for collaborative conferencing.
The users are able to seamlessly share content during a video call. Polycom
Vortex EF 2280 and sound station VTX 1000 enable revolutionary voice quality and
clarity at considerably large distances. Integrated ceiling mics allow superior
sound pick up from any seat in the room. Its software allows presenters to show
content over an IP network connection during a call, and enables quick and easy
knowledge share. Polycom RPX benefits businesses by increasing productivity,
giving a personal touch to long distance meetings, increase effectiveness of
meetings, enable faster knowledge transfer and management, and reduce the total
cost of ownership.

Real presence gives a true feeling of having a presence in the
same room and experience of a face-to-face meeting and is only restricted by
space availability. The technology applied optimizes the bandwidth usage
requiring basic broadband connection, addressing the spectrum woes of the
enterprise users. It has immense applicability not only in the traditional
conferencing and collaboration segment but also in the field of education and
telemedicine as well.

Real presence truly revolutionizes the room-based conferencing
and brings in a new trend in the collaborative technologies segment.

Sonia Sharma


sonias@cybermedia.co.in

(The author was hosted in London)