Polycom RealPresence Platform
The Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform is the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration, powering Polycom's market-leading HD telepresence and video solutions
Bring people face-to-face from anywhere over telepresence with highly scalable, reliable, secure, and redundant infrastructure that helps to ensure business continuity.
Create a seamless UC environment that drives adoption through ease-of-use within normal business workflows (IM’ing, calendaring, and e-mailing, for example).
Ensure interoperation with hundreds of unified communications and business applications through the unique open-standards approach of the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which supports large-scale premises, hosted and cloud delivery of video as a service.
Protect investments through forward and backward compatibility with existing and future systems. Drive down TCO and accelerate ROI through Polycom's unique ability to use as much as 50% less network bandwidth while providing 3.5 times greater resource capacity than alternatives.
Platform Functions: Five Ways to Improve Collaboration
The Polycom RealPresence Platform fits in the UC "stack" between the foundation layer of core network and security infrastructure and the services, applications, and device/endpoint layers above it, enabling the various software elements, which are typically from a range of different vendors, to interoperate seamlessly. The five functional areas spanned by the platform are described in the diagram:
