InfoComm: [VIDEO] Everything InfoComm, IMCCA and UCC

By David Danto IMCCA Before we all head out to this year’s InfoComm 2015 in Orlando, it probably won’t hurt to take a look at  a little video I recorded on behalf of IMCCA. (The IMCCA has been hard at work with InfoComm to present all things unified communications and collaboration  at the UCC Solutions […]

InfoComm: [VIDEO] Everything InfoComm, IMCCA and UCC

A Troubleshooting Rountable Continued

This month, we will be finishing up a three-part series on the art of troubleshooting in AV. Over the last two months, we have been examining the troubleshooting process, how it has changed, and what we can do to make the process more efficient in the future. For those of you who missed the first […]

A Troubleshooting Rountable Continued

Enterprise Connect: The Booth Videos – Day Two

Day two of the Enterprise Connect show provided more excellent experiences with companies specializing in providing unified communications and collaboration solutions. Here are the booth videos from the second day. AGT AGT has improved the way organizations communicate and collaborate for over 20 years. Our passion for technical innovation, visual communication and customer service – […]

Enterprise Connect: The Booth Videos – Day Two

Enterprise Connect: The Executive Interviews – Day One

I conducted interviews with several UCC industry executives at the Enterprise Connect Show – here are three from day one: Polycom: Interview with Executive Vice President of Engineering Michael Frendo Videxio: Interview with CEO Tom-Erik Lia Corvisa: Interview with President Matt Lautz  

Enterprise Connect: The Executive Interviews – Day One

Will Lifesize and Polycom be the Next Blockbuster Video?

  In 2004 Blockbuster Video had 60,000 employees, 9,000 video stores and did 6 Billion, (yes, with a “B”), dollars in revenue.  By 2010 they were bankrupt.  What happened? Netflix. The strangest part of the whole thing though is that Netflix never wanted or intended to be in the DVD business long term.  You don’t […]

Will Lifesize and Polycom be the Next Blockbuster Video?

Polycom and Crestron Use Sharp BOARD to Compete with Cisco

The recent success of the new MX Series from Cisco is driving Sharp Imaging, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, and its 80-inch (diagonal) AQUOS BOARD (PN-L802B) to partner with Crestron (for the RL) and the Polycom (for the CX8000) group collaboration solutions. The interactive display comes as part of Crestron and Polycom’s Lync Room […]

Polycom and Crestron Use Sharp BOARD to Compete with Cisco

Cycling Our Way to InfoComm 2014

Well, June approaches again, and with it, among other things, comes the InfoComm show. And I don’t mean InfoComm Patagonia or InfoComm New Zealand or whatever they’re up to these days. I mean the original, accept-no-substitutes, convince-the-boss-I-NEED to-go, InfoComm show. Actually, that’s not to disparage InfoComm’s ever-widening pantheon of AV shows around the world. I […]

Cycling Our Way to InfoComm 2014

The Video Conference Codec is Dead (Or At Least the Writing Is on the Wall)

New VC technology lets everyone into the party It always amazes me the calls I get from very large organizations and universities making the comment “We don’t want Cisco or Polycom endpoints.” At first I thought this was just a few fringe organizations, but it is becoming all too common request as of lately. While […]

The Video Conference Codec is Dead (Or At Least the Writing Is on the Wall)

Video Conferencing Begins Return to Growth

Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2Q13 Enterprise Telepresence and Video Conferencing Equipment report, which tracks dedicated and PBX-based video conferencing and telepresence infrastructure and endpoints: There’s now evidence the videoconferencing market is bouncing back. “After a tumultuous 2012 that saw growth in the videoconferencing market screech to a halt, sales returned to year-over-year […]

Video Conferencing Begins Return to Growth

InfoComm 2013 Awards: Best New Videoconferencing Product: Polycom RealPresence Room Solutions’ 500 Series

        To see a list of all the awards we are giving as part of our 2013 rAVe Best of InfoComm awards, click here. To see all our of InfoComm 2013 coverage, click here. Best New Videoconferencing Product: Polycom RealPresence Room Solutions’ 500 Series The RealPresence line covers from desktop to room […]

InfoComm 2013 Awards: Best New Videoconferencing Product: Polycom RealPresence Room Solutions’ 500 Series

Top-10 Tour Feature #9: Polycom RealPresence Capture Station Portable Pro (Booth 1759)

Over this week, we’ll be previewing all the rAVe Top-10 Tour Winners. Each product highlighted, will be on rAVe’s 2nd Annual Top-10 Tour at InfoComm. The rAVe Top-10 Tour is NOT a “pay for play” tour or product preview (like MOST AV publications do). These 10 products were selected from over 70 submissions from InfoComm […]

Top-10 Tour Feature #9: Polycom RealPresence Capture Station Portable Pro (Booth 1759)

Polycom and Forrester Release Room-Based Videoconferencing White Paper

The Forrester Wave: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012 report addresses the growing interest in face-to-face video collaboration, which is helping businesses increase productivity, improve employee engagement and trust and lower costs. This report uses 39 criteria to evaluate the top vendors in the industry, assessing video collaboration solutions for every work environment — from mobile and […]

Polycom and Forrester Release Room-Based Videoconferencing White Paper

Polycom and Frost & Sullivan Release Video Collaboration White Paper

A recent Frost & Sullivan analysis projects a rise in the virtual workplace with the mobile and remote workforce increasing by at least 23 percent. This means more and more opportunities for VTC integrators as everyone will want to integrate video communications – and now it all can work together with UC standards. As an […]

Polycom and Frost & Sullivan Release Video Collaboration White Paper

Polycom and Frost & Sullivan Partner for Free Webinar on UC’s Future

Roopam Jain, industry director of conferencing and collaboration at Frost & Sullivan, and John Paul Williams, Polycom director of enterprise solutions, are doing an in-depth overview of the new Frost & Sullivan white Paper, “Collaboration and Productivity in a Virtual Workplace: Act Now to Gain a Competitive Advantage” via a free webinar next month. Three […]

Polycom and Frost & Sullivan Partner for Free Webinar on UC’s Future

Polycom Ships SoundStation Connect with USB

Polycom’s new SoundStation Connect plugs directly into any laptop or desktop USB port, letting users of soft-phone apps such as Polycom RealPresence Desktop 2.0, Microsoft Lync, Skype or IBM Sametime get HD-quality audio conferencing technology for small-group meetings in the office, at home or when traveling. Benefits of the SoundStation Connect include: Clear conversations: Polycom […]

Polycom Ships SoundStation Connect with USB

Polycom Announces Partner Awards at TEAM Polycom 2013

Polycom last week honored top-performing partners from around the world at an awards ceremony during TEAM Polycom 2013, the company’s annual sales and partner conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 4-7, 2013. The Polycom Partner Awards recognize companies for leadership in each of the major partner categories and for excellence in the areas of […]

Polycom Announces Partner Awards at TEAM Polycom 2013

Rants and rAVes – Episode 17: Polycom’s Bold and Market-Leading Videoconferencing Move

Earlier this month, Polycom held a big, big press conference. At most press conferences, companies tell you how their new product is game-changing — and rarely do they live up to the hype. But, in this case, Polycom delivered. They’ve changed the face of videoconferencing forever by launching not only more affordable solutions, but also cloud-based solutions that are […]

Rants and rAVes – Episode 17: Polycom’s Bold and Market-Leading Videoconferencing Move

THE WEEK – Episode 3: Can Communications Be Unified?

THE WEEK talks with Jim Smith of Polycom about Telepresence, Unified Communications, the future of conferencing – and the mistakes we all make in getting there. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

THE WEEK – Episode 3: Can Communications Be Unified?

Polycom Dropping HDX? Heck No!

On Monday, Polycom spent the better part of the day launching an entirely new product line, both in hardware and services, as well as setting forth the company’s vision for the future of videoconferencing. Included in those announcements were a totally new (and, so far, the industry’s only) open-standards scalable video codes in the form […]

Polycom Dropping HDX? Heck No!

Rants and rAVes – Episode 6: POLYCOM Adds Skype, Facebook Video and Google Talk Compatibility

POLYCOM is the first, and only, VTC company to add compatibility with not only Skype but also Facebook Video and Google Talk with their RealPresence system today. Everyone’s been wondering when you’d be able to connect Skype calls into VTC systems – that day happened today, October 8, 2012. Today, POLYCOM changed videoconferencing forever… Show Links: rAVe [Publications]: Polycom Introduces Open-Standards Based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Protocol […]

Rants and rAVes – Episode 6: POLYCOM Adds Skype, Facebook Video and Google Talk Compatibility

Polycom Introduces Open-Standards Based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Protocol

Today, Polycom introduced the industry’s first open standards-based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) protocol, which Polycom says delivers 3x the previous capacity for HD multipoint video calls for greater scalability, dramatically lower TCO, superior performance and backwards- and forwards-compatibility to protect customer investments. Last week Polycom announced support for open standards-based SVC, an extension to AVC […]

Polycom Introduces Open-Standards Based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Protocol

Polycom Adds Affordable VTC Solutions for Medium and Small Businesses

Polycom announced today a new portfolio of solutions designed for medium-sized businesses that the company says makes it easier to purchase, install, deliver and manage enterprise-grade video collaboration. Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition, is a multi-protocol, integrated software MCU that runs on industry-standard servers, connecting video systems using the open standards-based SVC protocol […]

Polycom Adds Affordable VTC Solutions for Medium and Small Businesses

Polycom Heads to the Cloud, Adds Skype, Facebook and Google Talk Integration with RealPresence CloudAXIS

Polycom made several major announcements this week, one of which is new Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite, a cloud-based software suite that allows Polycom customers to add anyone on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk and other business video applications to their video conferences from a browser. RealPresence CloudAXIS is software suite that runs on the Polycom RealPresence […]

Polycom Heads to the Cloud, Adds Skype, Facebook and Google Talk Integration with RealPresence CloudAXIS

X2O Media’s Portal Now Fully Integrated With Polycom RealPresence Media Manager

X2O Media recently announced that as part of the company’s new “Open Content Management Framework,” the X2O Portal is now fully integrated with the Polycom RealPresence Media Manager. Users can access video assets stored in the RealPresence Media Manager directly from X2O’s cloud-based content management tools, then schedule and deliver them to digital displays. The […]

X2O Media’s Portal Now Fully Integrated With Polycom RealPresence Media Manager

Polycom Announces New Webinar, Includes IDC’s Matt Davis

Video is becoming ubiquitous. New IDC reports forecast that by 2015 worldwide shipments of media tablets will reach nearly 140 million and smartphones will make up 45 percent of global mobile phone penetration. Many of the world’s most innovative businesses, including Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (Alaska) and HomeAway, improve their productivity with Polycom RealPresence […]

Polycom Announces New Webinar, Includes IDC’s Matt Davis

HP, Microsoft, Polycom: Bundling Against Cisco

Last summer Polycom bought HP’s video and telepresence business, becoming the exclusive videoconferencing supplier for HP’s reseller and integrator businesses. Now they will launch the first integrated, all-in-one solution bundle to come from the two vendors that’s intended to be sold through the channel. There will also be more bundles in the future. Hewlett Packard […]

HP, Microsoft, Polycom: Bundling Against Cisco

Polycom Goes Mobile

Polycom will extend its videoconferencing service to the iPhone 4S and devices that run on Google’s Android 4.0. This service expansion comes after last October’s launch of its RealPresence Mobile that extended its video collaboration services to mobile devices such as iPads, Galaxy tablets and Xoom tablets. Polycom hopes the move will help it compete […]

Polycom Goes Mobile

Polycom’s CX7000 Integrates Microsoft Lync

The Polycom CX7000 solution (codenamed “Rally”) is specifically designed to integrate with Microsoft Lync. With especially tight integration between the Polycom and Microsoft solutions, customers get an intuitive interface, simplified UC experience, and seamless telepresence. The solution integrates all the features of the Lync platform customers want (IM, online meetings, content collaboration, etc.) with Polycom’s […]

Polycom’s CX7000 Integrates Microsoft Lync

Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

Polycom was named the recipient of 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year Award, for the company’s leadership in delivering innovations that provide powerful, enterprise-grade UC and visual collaboration solutions for customers. Polycom is being honored for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Polycom was officially […]

Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

Polycom and Microsoft Partner

Polycom and Microsoft just announced an expanded agreement to deliver integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) that will encompass Microsoft branded software, hardware, networking and services, and will enable customers to improve business productivity and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs. What Does This Mean for the ProAV market? According to Polycom, they’re partnering with […]

Polycom and Microsoft Partner

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best In-Booth Presenter/Presentation

polBest In-Booth Presenter/Presentation (tie): Polycom. If you went to their telepresence presentation (on the new OTX system), you’d agree with this choice – it was totally perfect. RP Visuals. We had to share this award with Randy Pagnan’s RP Visuals – he gave us the best 3-minute (err, well, 5-minute) booth tour ever.

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best In-Booth Presenter/Presentation

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best New Videoconferencing Product

PolyCom OTX. We continue to be wowed by Telepresence and the fact that it truly gives you an immersive videoconferencing experience. Using 50 percent less bandwidth than the RPX, the new OTX system is a complete turnkey room solution for telepresence.

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best New Videoconferencing Product