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Polycom Brings Telepresence Solution To India
March 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom has launch in India of RealPresence Experience High Definition (RPX HD), the industry's only truly immersive telepresence solution. The launch event, at Polycom's Noida centre, was inaugurated by Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Teletech; and was also attended by Mr. Robert Hagerty, Chairman and CEO of Polycom, who demonstrated the unique immersive telepresence experience by joining the launch from United States using a RPX HD solution. Polycom has a strategic partnership with Bharti Teletech, for distribution of Polycom's market-driving collaboration and communications solutions in the Indian market.Polycom RPX HD solutions is said to provide the ultimate remote meeting experience. Each solution is an all-inclusive suite that comes fully equipped with all the furnishings, studio lighting, acoustic cloud and walls and electronics required for immersive telepresence - creating a comfortable, luxurious collaboration environment that enables executives to focus on their important business, rather than on technology.
The Polycom RPX HD solutions are particularly suited to the Indian market, as they allow executives in any organisation to meet to discuss detailed information with geographically dispersed colleagues and customers across the country, or around the world, with unprecedented life-like realism. While other telepresence solutions feature multiple 16:9 displays that appear as letterbox "windows" into another room, Polycom solutions feature large, integrated, and contoured video walls that accurately capture true-to-life people dimensions. They also deliver the finest details and nuances of expression in voice, video and content - all over lower bandwidths.
Polycom RPX solutions are available for order through qualified Polycom channel partners in India. Complete room solution pricing starts at US$249,000 for a Polycom RPX 204.
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