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September Newsletter 2011
Polycom introduces software — Logitech's acquisition extends
Colorado Springs provides nursing education to rural community
Rural communities are increasingly losing trained professionals to larger cities where up-to-date education & certification are more accessible. The Smart+Connected Community in Action video case study on Colorado Springs takes us to a community in rural Colorado that is working with the
bigger city of Denver to address this important issue.
The video shows the personal story of one woman who lives in a rural community, but can now attend classes remotely at a university in Denver via Telepresense and get the education she needs to develop her nursing career.
View the video to meet healthcare professionals and learn more about this nurse who has been able to maintain her career in the community she serves without leaving her family and her hometown. This innovative program can be an example to other rural communities on how forge partnerships and use technology to educate their workforce.
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Polycom introduces software for universal video collaboration
Polycom, the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), recently introduced the Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform – the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration. The Polycom RealPresence Platform (formerly referred to as the Polycom UC Intelligent Core™) is the software infrastructure that powers Polycom's market-leading HD telepresence and video solutions. The unique open-standards approach of the Polycom RealPresence Platform ensures integration with hundreds of unified communications and social networking applications, such as Microsoft Lync 2010™, IBM Sametime®, and Jive's social business platform. In addition, the RealPresence Platform integrates with core networking and security infrastructure to deliver secure collaboration with any number of people across heterogeneous networks with up to 50 percent less bandwidth consumption than other solutions.
Today's RealPresence Platform announcement is a key component of Polycom's software strategy to put the "unified" in unified communications. Unified communications requires open standards-based software interfaces and integration so that applications, systems, networks, and video-enabled devices from different vendors can seamlessly interoperate. Ease-of-use enabled by interoperability drives adoption as users come to expect face-to-face collaboration for every conversation, training session, interview, product review, employee on-boarding, sales and partner engagement, company meeting, event, and more. Moreover, the increasing mobility of workers is also adding to the growing demand for more scalable video solutions. The Polycom RealPresence Platform delivers enterprise ease of use and carrier-grade reliability and scalability, already supporting up to 25,000 concurrent sessions and 75,000 device registrations.
The functional modules of the RealPresence Platform include:
- Universal Video Collaboration – software for multipoint video, voice, and content collaboration that connects multiple protocols, enabling people and content to connect at the highest quality for the lowest cost.
- Video Resource Management – software to centrally manage, monitor, and deliver video collaboration across an organization.
- Virtualization – software for managing and distributing calls across collaboration networks with the scalability, redundancy, and resiliency
- Universal Access and Security – software that easily and securely connects video participants inside and outside the organization while optimizing for the best collaboration experience, whether delivered within the enterprise, business-to-business, or business-to-consumer.
- Video Content Management – software for secure video capture (recording and playback) as well as content management, administration, and delivery of video content.
Give Video Guidance a call to learn more about the elements of the Polycom RealPresence Platform.
Logitech's acquisition extends video calling to mobile users
Logitech International recently announced the acquisition of Mirial, a Milan-based leading provider of personal and mobile video conferencing solutions. Mirial will be integrated into Logitech’s LifeSize division.
With the acquisition of Mirial, LifeSize now offers a more comprehensive portfolio of universal video collaboration solutions, from conference room endpoints and infrastructure to now including best-in-class desktop, tablet and mobile video calling software. Mirial brings to LifeSize strong leadership in extending open, interoperable video collaboration solutions to anyone, anywhere on nearly any mobile device through Mirial’s standalone video software clients for the PC and Mac, client/server enterprise video software solutions, and service provider offerings. Mirial supports a broad range of iOS and Android devices including the iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad 2; HTC EVO, Desire, Incredible, myTouch 4G, Sensation and ThunderBolt; Motorola Atrix and Xoom; Samsung Epic 4G, Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab as well as Google Nexus S and Dell Streak.
Companies are increasingly expecting their business-class video conferencing solutions to work on both tablets and smartphones. With shipments of tablets into the enterprise expected to reach more than 49 million in 2015, according to Frost & Sullivan, support for video collaboration on these devices has become a key customer requirement. Mirial’s enterprise desktop and mobile video conferencing solutions address one of the most substantial challenges to the adoption of video calling across the enterprise: using video to connect with remote colleagues and partners on a variety of mobile devices and networks. With Mirial, LifeSize now offers customers true mobility with interoperable enterprise video conferencing software solutions for distributed desktop and mobile users, taking video collaboration one step closer to true ubiquity.
Mirial products are available through Video Guidance and are integrated into Video Guidance products and services, enabling new and existing customers to enhance their video calling networks, reaching more people on more devices.
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