Businessweek

Polycom, Inc. offers standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video collaboration. The company’s solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. Products and Services The company’s video, voice and content-management and content-sharing solutions range from immersive telepresence and conference room systems, to home/work office solutions, to applications for mobile devices, to browser-based video collaboration, to cloud-delivered services, to industry-specific solutions, such as specialized healthcare video carts, and includes the infrastructure platform that powers these solutions and the services to support them. The company’s products and solutions are categorized as follows: UC Platform, which includes universal collaboration servers, virtualization management (distributed media optimization), resource management, recording and streaming, open API’s and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform. UC Group Systems includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Personal Devices includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. UC Platform The RealPresence Platform is a comprehensive software infrastructure offering for universal video collaboration, powering the company’s high definition (HD) video solutions. Using the RealPresence Platform, organizations bring people face-to-face from anywhere and create UC environments and collaboration experiences that incorporate HD video and voice collaboration, instant messaging, calendaring, e-mailing, and content sharing. The Polycom components that make up the RealPresence Platform include the following: Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX or Collaboration Server 800s, Virtual Edition): The RealPresence Collaboration Server provides universal video collaboration, or bridging. Universal video collaboration enables multipoint video, voice, and content collaboration regardless of network, protocol, or device. The RealPresence Collaboration Servers can be sized to fit the needs of small, medium, or large organizations, supporting the collaboration needs of all customers. Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager: The RealPresence Resource Manager system centrally provisions, monitors, and manages the entire video collaboration network. Through dynamic provisioning, the RealPresence Resource Manager system automatically configures and maintains video clients at pre-determined software baselines. Polycom RealPresence Virtualization Manager (DMA): The RealPresence Virtualization Manager system is a network-based virtualization application for managing and distributing calls across collaboration networks. With no single point of failure, the RealPresence Virtualization Manager provides reliability and super-cluster configurations for mission-critical communications. It also provides a single unified dialing plan for video and voice applications across multiple vendors. Supporting up to 25,000 concurrent calls and 75,000 devices, the RealPresence Virtualization Manager system provides advanced routing algorithms to maximize resource utilization and dynamically distribute calls based on priority, bandwidth, and class of service. Polycom RealPresence Access Director: The RealPresence Access Director solution makes it easier for users, inside or outside a company’s firewall, to video conference safely with anyone in the organization, whether they are in a secure environment at the office or an unsecure environment at home or in a hotel. Polycom Video Content Management Solutions: Polycom video content management solutions provide secure video capture, management, administration, and delivery. Solutions include the Polycom RealPresence Media Manager, the Polycom RSS 4000 recording and streaming server, the Polycom RealPresence Capture Station, and the Polycom RealPresence Bro