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Polycom® and Microsoft help change how people interact with co-workers, customers and partners through a more effective, personalized collaboration experience. Together, Microsoft and Polycom deliver a standards-based, end-to-end UC solution optimized for Microsoft environments.

Microsoft and Polycom continue to invest in product development and go-to-market initiatives to deliver high-quality UC options for customers, with rich integration across the Microsoft and Polycom portfolio. Together, the companies provide a seamlessly interoperable UC solution for voice, video, conferencing, and collaboration, giving customers a choice through the scalable Polycom infrastructure and Microsoft Lync™ platform. The Polycom solutions, integrated with Lync or other components of Microsoft UC platform, enable users to collaborate from their desks, on the road, at home, or in a conference room. Further, customers benefit from an enterprise-quality, personalized communications experience that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible with lower costs and improved productivity.

Polycom is significantly expanding the portfolio of its voice and video solutions, offering more than 40 solutions that interoperate with and take advantage of the presence-based contact capabilities of Lync. In the process, organizations gain unprecedented choice, flexibility, and investment protection by ensuring that their existing Polycom solutions seamlessly work with Lync. Polycom IP phones including wireless voice, desktop and conference room phones Direct integration of Polycom RealPresence™ Platform and RealPresence Personal, Room, and Immersive solutions for true end-to-end video collaboration General Availability of a breakthrough collaboration solution, Polycom CX7000 Unified Collaboration System

• Polycom Provides Broadest Range of UC Solutions Interoperable with Microsoft® Lync™, including Polycom® HD Video and Voice™ Solutions

Polycom is the only company that provides scalable HD voice and HD video integration in enterprise and company-to-company environments with Microsoft Unified Communications including Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint® Server 2010.

• Direct integration – Polycom voice, video, conferencing and collaboration solutions work directly with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and core Microsoft infrastructure such as Active Directory®, eliminating the need for additional gateways and lowering total cost of ownership
• Innovative solution – Polycom provides solutions that improve daily workflows and facilitate communications enabled business processes (CEBP) within the enterprise
• Most comprehensive portfolio – Select from the full line of the Polycom CX family for purpose-built solutions optimized for Microsoft Lync, or best-in-class standards-based voice and video solutions with direct interoperability to Lync Server 2010
• Enterprise and B2B communication – Polycom voice and video solutions leverage the Microsoft Lync infrastructure to traverse firewalls and enable federation calls between organizations
• Simplified management and security – Microsoft and Polycom deliver a highly scalable and more secure conferencing solution. The solution simplifies deployment, provisioning, and management, helping customers cut overall costs in their UC infrastructure.
• Scalable enterprise communications – The Polycom® RealPresence® Platform helps ensure that real time voice and video communication, as well as streamed media, can scale and provide high availability and redundancy.
• Video content management throughout the content lifecycle – Polycom RealPresence Media Manager gives organizations a proactive IT management console that establishes rules for the lifecycle of storage- and bandwidth-intensive video content.

For more information, contact your Polycom representative or email us at TeamMicrosoft@polycom.com.