Polycom RMX 4000 Awarded Best Infrastructure Product at AdvancedTCA Summit 2009

SANTA CLARA, CA, Oct 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
AdvancedTCA Summit 2009 - Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader
in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced
that its new Polycom RMX(TM) 4000 real-time media conferencing platform
was awarded Best Infrastructure Product at the AdvancedTCA(R) Summit 2009
Best of Show awards ceremony held last night at the Santa Clara Convention
Center.

Addressing the rapid adoption of visual communication across industries
and the increasing scale of deployments, the Polycom RMX 4000 is the
industry's most scalable and reliable multipoint conferencing platform
capable of supporting hundreds of simultaneous HD video calls and more
than a thousand video and audio conference calls. The platform for
multi-point collaboration and multi-network connectivity for
telepresence, video and voice conferencing enables large organizations,
government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare networks and
service providers to deliver enterprise-wide and business-to-business
video services with unrivaled quality, scale and reliability.

The Polycom RMX 4000 leverages a carrier-grade Advanced Telecom Computing
Architecture (AdvancedTCA) platform that features a unique, unified
design. Four media processing cards share the same management system and
high-speed backplane, allowing processing resources to be shared
seamlessly as a unified system. This provides support for large
conferences without cascading to multiple bridges, which equates to lower
latency and superior overall quality and performance.

"Leveraging the AdvancedTCA platform allows us to deliver a carrier-grade
solution that has significant scalability, performance, reliability and
administrative advantages over competing systems," said Joe Sigrist,
senior vice president and general manager, Video Solutions, Polycom. "We
designed our video network infrastructure solution with a clear focus on
where the technology is heading in terms of processing requirements,
network scalability and IT administrative concerns, and also in how video
will integrate into broader UC platforms and into business processes
moving forward."

"We are excited to award the Polycom RMX 4000 as the AdvancedTCA Summit
2009 Best Infrastructure Product for the unique way in which Polycom uses
the AdvancedTCA platform to provide solutions to its customer base," said
Ernie Bergstrom, AdvancedTCA Summit Chairman. "The elegantly designed
Polycom RMX 4000 gives IT organizations a highly-scalable, carrier-grade
platform for video communication that can be easily deployed and managed
along with their other core communications and network systems."

The Polycom RMX 4000 is the latest addition to Polycom's video network
solution that offers the most comprehensive visual communication
environments from desktop video to immersive telepresence and the most
redundant infrastructure systems to video-enable organizations of all
sizes with varying application needs. Based on established standards and
open interoperability, the Polycom solution can be deployed within any
unified communications (UC) environment and features integration with
leading UC platforms from Microsoft, IBM, Avaya, Nortel, BroadSoft and
others.

Organizations of all sizes and across industries are adopting visual
communication to enable people and teams to work more effectively and
efficiently across distances both within and across organizations, which
can lead to reduced operating costs by replacing the need to travel and
reduced travel-associated carbon emissions. The value of the video
conferencing market is set to post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
17.8 percent between 2008 and 2013, rising from $3.8 billion to $8.6
billion according to Gartner, Inc.(1)

Polycom RMX 4000 Highlights:

-- Delivers multi-point collaboration and multi-network connectivity for
video, voice and unified voice and video conferencing.

-- Supports customers' current and future needs with unmatched
performance and scale for the latest telepresence, HD video conferencing
and desktop video collaboration applications and unrivaled flexibility and
cost-effectiveness for supporting existing investments in video
conferencing systems.

-- Optimizes the experience for all participants in a call by transcoding
resolutions, frame rates and layout options, and connecting multiple
networks.

-- Extends the most scalable multi-point conference platform in the
industry -- capable of supporting hundreds of compute-intensive HD
telepresence calls (including full 1080p) and more than a thousand video
and audio conferences, when paired with the Polycom Distributed Media
Application(TM) (DMA(TM)) 7000, a unique network application that
centralizes call control for RMX bridges and provides further failover
redundancy -- virtualizing all bridge resources into a single pool and
dynamically distributing bridge calls onto RMX bridges based on available
or required resources.

-- Offers flexibility of management -- can be deployed centrally or in a
distributed network environment with the Polycom DMA 7000 for greater
scale, redundancy, centralized provisioning, and simplified network
administration.

-- Provides both flexible and fixed resource allocation, allowing
optimization as network requirements change. Allows customers to cost-
effectively support existing systems as they migrate from traditional video
conferencing to HD telepresence.

-- Shares the same code base as the Polycom RMX 2000(R), also based on
and AdvancedTCA platform, ensuring seamless feature and functionality
support. The RMX 4000 and the RMX 2000 also share licenses, media and E1/T1
cards, software versions, telepresence and encryption licenses.

-- Features in-system redundancy with redundant power supplies with AC or
DC option.

-- List price for RMX 4000 HD ports is nearly 40 percent less expensive
than nearest competitor.

Pricing and availability:

The Polycom RMX 4000 is planned for worldwide availability in Q409 with a
North America list price starting at US$152,000.

Product Background / Images

-- Polycom RMX 4000 Product Page

-- Video of Frost & Sullivan analyst Roopam Jain explaining advantages of
the Polycom RMX, DMA solution

-- RMX 4000 images on Flickr

About Polycom Visual Communication Solutions

-- Polycom provides the most comprehensive video network infrastructure
solution, including Polycom Converged Management Application(TM) (CMA(TM))
for centralized management, provisioning, call control, scheduling and
video presence; Polycom RMX real-time media conferencing platform for
multipoint, multi-network conferences; Polycom Distributed Media
Application (DMA) 7000 distributed network application server for
centralized call control across multiple RMX bridges and failover
redundancy; Polycom Video Border Proxy(TM) (VBP(TM)) network-aware firewall
traversal systems; and the Polycom RSS(TM) and Video Media Center(TM)
(VMC(TM)) platforms for recording, streaming and video content management.

-- Polycom's video network infrastructure solution is complemented by
best-in-class visual communication endpoints, including Polycom
RealPresence Experience (RPX) and Polycom Telepresence Experience (TPX)
immersive telepresence rooms, Polycom HDX room and personal telepresence
systems, the highly scalable Polycom CMA Desktop video collaboration
application, and industry specific telepresence solutions for healthcare,
education, telejustice, integrated room environments and more.

-- Polycom is the industry leader in telepresence and video conferencing,
having shipped nearly 70,000 telepresence solutions through Q3 2009 and
nearly one million video conferencing systems to date.

Recent Announcements:

-- NATO Armed with Polycom Telepresence for Global Collaboration

-- Expanded Polycom Infrastructure Solution Helps Organizations Unlock
Benefits of Visual Communication

-- 7 Habits Author, Stephen Covey, Transported Anywhere, Anytime with
Polycom Telepresence

About Polycom

Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video,
and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people
to connect and collaborate everywhere. Visit www.polycom.com for more
information and follow us on Twitter @AllAboutPolycom.

(1) Gartner, Inc. "Dataquest Insight: Videoconferencing Products and
Services Market Forecast, Worldwide, 2007-2013," September 28, 2009, ID#
G00171041

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