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Telecommunications Polycom ups the ante on Cisco's 'telepresence' videoconferencing
Telecommunications Polycom ups the ante on Cisco's 'telepresence' videoconferencing | Polycom ups the ante on Cisco's 'telepresence' videoconferencing |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 14 November 2006 | |
  
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The result. Polycom claims, "is solutions that deliver a highly engaging virtual experience never before possible that rivals the efficacy of in-person meetings, enables new types of detail-oriented applications, and increases personal and team efficiency and productivity while eliminating the fatigue from remote collaboration." "Because UltimateHD solutions enable remote participants to easily engage with everything happening in the on-site meeting without any of the common distractions of conferencing over distance, we expect to see a dramatic increase in the applications for our collaboration technology," said James Anderson, Polycom's country manager Australia and New Zealand. Cisco, similarly, claims that its new videoconferencing system has "the ability to create a real sense of sitting face-to-face with a person on the other side of the virtual telepresence table...[completely changing] the experience of remote communications." Polycom began delivering components based on the UltimateHD architecture last year with the Polycom MGC/MGC+, claimed to be the only multipoint bridges that support true high definition and capable of scaling to support 90 concurrent high definition sessions. These were followed earlier this year by "the only scalable high definition recording and streaming server," the Polycom RSS 2000. Polycom plans to introduce a new VoIP conference phone in the second quarter of 2007 that will enable users to launch HD video sessions directly from the conference phone.{moscomment} |
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