Polycom has entered into a multi-year, strategic global agreement with Microsoft to provide integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) and to improve customers’ business productivity.
Through this agreement, Polycom aims to develop and market standards-based UC offerings that span the enterprise, small-to-medium business, and government markets, that will encompass software, hardware, networking and services. The offerings are designed to enable customers improve business productivity and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs.
As part of the agreement, Polycom is developing a broad base of offerings for the development of Microsoft Communications Server ’14’, including new and next-generation Polycom CX series endpoints featuring HD video and voice technologies; room-based video systems; and additional interoperable offerings between Polycom’s existing and future video conferencing offerings.
Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president of Unified Communication at Microsoft, said: "Microsoft and Polycom are committed to a roadmap that will deliver interoperable UC solutions with choice and innovation in video conferencing and customer devices that will help transform enterprise communications."
