Polycom emerges as a leader in the Indian Videoconferencing sector

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), has been announced leader in the India Video-conferencing market simultaneously by Frost & Sullivan and Voice & Data 100.

Leading research firm Frost & Sullivan honored Polycom India with the Video Conferencing Equipment Vendor of the Year award for 2011. Polycom India has won this award for the second consecutive year. The company previously won the Frost & Sullivan award for Market Share Leadership in Video Conferencing Endpoints and Infrastructure in 2008 and 2009.

Polycom has also emerged as a leader in the Audio-Video Conferening segment analysis carried out by the Voice & Data 100 for the year 2011-12. As per Voice&Data estmates, the company had a marketshare of 49%, and had grown 20% in revenues, in FY 2011-12 as compared to FY 2010-11.  According to Voice&Data estimates, the audio video conferencing industry grew by 16% to register Rs. 391 crore in FY 2011-12 compared to Rs. 337 crore in FY 2010-11.

Polycom® RealPresence® video solutions are available for tablets, smartphones and laptops, as well as executive desktops, room-based environments and immersive theatres. Polycom video collaboration solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal HD video collaboration. The unique open-standards approach of the RealPresence Platform ensures interoperability with hundreds of UC, business, and social networking applications, bridging silos, and truly unifying communications across the enterprise.

The company has presence in more than 60 countries, with more than 400,000 organisations trusting its solutions to collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, customers, specialists and prospects. Polycom, together with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best total cost of ownership, interoperability, scalability, and security for video collaboration, whether on-premises, hosted, or cloud-delivered.

With over 700 patents issued or pending, Polycom continues to build on its 20-year history of innovation in the enabling technologies that push the greatness of human collaboration forward. Polycom has delivered more than 50 consecutive quarters of profitability.

Mr. Neeraj Gill, Managing Director of Polycom