Polycom Announces Availability of Polycom® RealPresence® Group 700, Delivering 1080p60 HD Video and

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Polycom Announces Availability of Polycom® RealPresence® Group 700, Delivering 1080p60 HD Video and Content Collaboration with Breakthrough User Experience for Meetings in Environments Such as Lecture Halls and Conference Rooms

  • Polycom RealPresence Group 700 delivers the industry's best user experience (Polycom UX™) including a completely redesigned UI, the industry's most lifelike HD image quality, Polycom® SmartPairing™ technology, and innovative video, content sharing and audio features that are only available from Polycom.

  • Polycom RealPresence Group 700 includes support for Polycom's open standards-based SVC (Scalable Video Coding) -powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform- resulting in 3X HD multipoint video call capacity for greater scalability, dramatically lower TCO, superior video performance, and backwards- and forwards-compatibility to protect customer investments.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Polycom, Inc. (NAS: PLCM) , the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today announced the availability of Polycom® RealPresence® Group 700, a video collaboration solution ideal for large group meeting areas - such as corporate conference rooms, entertainment production studios and lecture halls - that delivers the highest quality video and content resolution (up to 1080p60), and crystal-clear audio for more productive and lifelike interactions with colleagues, partners and customers.

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Polycom RealPresence Group 700 delivers 1080p60 HD video and content collaboration for meetings in environments such as lecture halls and conference rooms. (Photo: Business Wire)

"Our mission is to make video collaboration an essential and accessible part of how people live and work, whether the solutions are used for internal meetings and training, closing sales deals, engineering projects between geographically dispersed teams, or working with customers," said A.E. Natarajan, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Engineering, Polycom. "Polycom has re-architected our user interface through input from our customers and developed technologies based on user behaviours to make our solutions intuitive and easy to use. Our RealPresence Group Series systems reflect our intense R&D advancements, along with the delivery of the industry's highest quality visual collaboration experience."


Unveiled at Polycom Strategy Day in October, Polycom RealPresence Group 700 is part of the Polycom® RealPresence® Group Series, which are available in multiple configurations to meet the needs of any organization. The series also includes the Polycom® RealPresence® Group 300 that are ideal for smaller environments such as "huddle" rooms and Polycom® RealPresence® Group 500 that are designed for medium-sized areas such as conference rooms. Polycom RealPresence Group 300 and 500 solutions have been available since November.

Polycom RealPresence Group 700 includes the following features and benefits:

  • ThePolycom UX™, the industry's best user experience - Polycom UX is designed to drive a superior experience and ease of use for users, while minimizing IT management and support, keeping IT costs down and usage up for better total cost of ownership (TCO). Polycom UX has more than 20 features and innovations, including:

  • Simple and intuitive new UI - incorporates a simple, intuitive and elegant user interface that is consistent across Polycom's next-generation video collaboration solutions. Years of extensive user testing and human factors research have resulted in features like drop-down menus, elegant and intuitive navigation, and a simplified remote control.

  • Polycom® SmartPairing™ technology - allows mobile tablets to serve as remote controls for RealPresence Group Series systems. This patent-pending technology, built into Polycom RealPresence Mobile software, wirelessly connects tablets to Group Series and Polycom® HDX® systems. With Polycom SmartPairing, users can control video meetings with their tablets and transfer a live video call from their tablet to a big screen with the swipe of a finger.

  • 1080p60 video and content - boosts image clarity and motion smoothness, enhancing video quality and enabling users to share any type of content, such as detailed full-motion video clips. This allows workers across all industries - from architects looking at CAD drawings to clinicians reviewing medical images to sales and marketing representatives showing multimedia content to clients - to have more productive meetings.

  • Polycom's legendary HD audio technology - includes the new patent-pending Polycom® NoiseCancel™ technology, which heightens collaboration by automatically eliminating unwanted or distracting noises like keyboard typing or paper shuffling; and Polycom® ConstantClarity™ technology, which enables extraordinary audio and video fidelity that allows users to distinguish every syllable of every word they hear in a Polycom video conference, resulting in an amazing video experience even in challenging environments.

  • Lower Total Cost of Ownership -

    • Support for the open, standards-basedH.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology- Polycom's open, standards-based SVC,when powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, provides up to 3X capacity for HD multipoint video calls for greater scalability, dramatically lower TCO, superior performance, and backwards- and forwards-compatibility to protect customer investments. SVC support is now available across the entire Polycom RealPresence Group Series through a software update and is already available on Polycom RealPresence Mobile and Polycom RealPresence Desktop solutions. SVC is an extension to H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), an efficient and high-performance standard that is used by most of today's video conferencing devices. SVC technology enables high-quality video collaboration meetings even if network conditions or client capabilities are limited. To learn more about the benefits of SVC, see the related press release.

    • Integrated multipoint capabilities - A multipoint license for the Polycom RealPresence Group 700 allows users to connect up to eight different parties on a single call without requiring an external bridge.

Usage of HD Video Collaboration Solutions on the Rise, Ideal for All Industries

The availability of the entire line of Polycom RealPresence Group systems gives customers the flexibility to choose video collaboration solutions that work best for a wide variety of work environments and employee business needs, such as healthcare environments that require HD quality video and voice collaboration.

"In the operating theater it's important to see the work flow of the operating room and also to see medical images, such as a laparascope to view the interior of the abdomen or an arthroscope to view the inside of a joint," said Dr. Andrew Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS, Medical Director of the Center for Connected Medicine, Executive Director of Telemedicine at UPMC, and a colorectal surgeon. "We need to view these environments and images in high definition, simultaneously, and the Polycom RealPresence Group Series allows us to do this with both people and content, and with multiple camera feeds."

Availability

Polycom RealPresence Group 700 solutions are available today in select countries worldwide starting at US$16,999; Polycom RealPresence Group 300 and 500 solutions have been available since November; see the related press release. The multipoint license for the Polycom RealPresence Group Series is available today starting at US$3,099. Polycom RealPresence Mobile software with support for Polycom SmartPairing technology is available today as a free download from the Apple AppStore™ and Google Play. Contact your local Polycom sales representative or channel partner for more information.

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world. Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over 7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability, and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to learn how we're pushing the greatness of human collaboration forward.

NOTE: The product plans, specifications, and descriptions herein are provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and are provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Polycom reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time. Products and related specifications referenced herein are not guaranteed and will be delivered on a when and if available basis.

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