Polycom Unified Communications Launch

Polycom, the leading provider of collaborative communication solutions, meets enterprise customer needs with new IP family of unified communications devices. Unified communications bridge the gap between telephony and computing to deliver real-time messaging, voice, and conferencing to the desktop environment.

The company received requests over the years from enterprise customers for products that provide unified communications solutions with IP based telephony. The customers wanted highly integrated solutions that would in turn help improve business processes and profitability.

In response, the Polycom family launched its CX family of four high-definition telephone devices. The products of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 enabled phones, ranging from personal speakerphones to an executive desktop phone in order to increase business collaboration and productivity. Because of the company's early development work with Microsoft, it was able to deliver four different kinds of devices that meet a full range of possible business scenarios. Additional benefits of the Polycom CX deployment:

• Empowers unified communications- The CX family of devices developed by Polycom will help its customers advance the deployment of unified communications solutions
• Addresses different business scenarios- By creating a full range of devices from personal speakerphones to executive desktop phones- Polycom was able to deliver different kinds of products that fit different business scenarios
• Helps provide end-to-end software-based telephony- With the Polycom CX family of telephone devices and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 customers can benefit from software-centric communications