Polycom® UltimateHD™ Polycom’s Next Generation Architecture for the Ultimate Unified Collaboration Experience
Polycom® UltimateHD™ Briefing Presentation The Collaboration Continuum Exclusively From Polycom UltimateHD Architecture Defined Why Is UltimateHD The Right Choice? Enabling Next Generation Applications
Collaboration and Conferencing Continuum Face to face Meeting On Demand Infrastructure HD Video + Content HD Voice + Content Improved Productivity and Efficiency HD Voice Before UltimateHD Productivity and Efficiency Scheduled Infrastructure Tomorrow's opportunities will be seized by organizations of all sizes that can effectively meet, communicate and collaborate over distance. World Class Collaboration requires easy to use technology that replicates the high fidelity, clarity, and efficiency of face to face meetings. Polycom’s UltimateHD architecture enables the worlds most lifelike and engaging experience that will enables an entirely new class of conferencing and collaboration applications. UltimateHD solutions based on this architecture will provide users the greatest visual, audio, and content detail in a multimedia collaborative meeting. The pure clarity, rich detail and fidelity of Polycom UltimateHD solutions will improve productivity and efficiency on a scale never before available in on-demand or scheduled collaborative meetings over a distance. Standard Video Conf IM Voice+ Web Email Voice Only Snail Mail Fax Asynchronous Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Methods and Innovations
Content Continuum Example CIF 4CIF (4 X CIF) HD (9 X CIF)
Video Continuum Example More information on the screen with 16:9 Better picture quality means teachers are able to hold students’ attention – blueprints, x-rays, Not having to deal with the stress over time put on your eyes The depth and the color of HD – ex: Olympics currently shown in HD Increasing – accessible bandwidth, resolution & picture quality, content providers with VC, corporate sponsors that help with cost of I2 access Decreasing – complexity and size of equipment and price of equipment 4:3 Aspect Ratio 16:9 Aspect Ratio 20% more information
Available Exclusively From Polycom Exclusivity- Only Polycom has the breadth of expertise to deliver UltimateHD Leadership- Polycom is the market share leader with over 500 patents in collaborative communications technology Completeness- Polycom HD solutions enable the ultimate high definition experience across end points, infrastructure and service… #1 Conference Phones Network Infrastructure Professional Services Videoconferencing End points
Polycom ® UltimateHD ™ Architecture Polycom UltimateHD is a next generation unified collaboration architecture for On-demand and scheduled collaborative communications over a distance Designed to deliver a consistent life-like and engaging experience for mobile, desktop, and conference room Targeting a quantum leap in efficiency and productivity Supports two-way interactive conferencing, streaming communications, recording and archiving, and video on demand Represents a Quantum leap in efficiency and productivity Essential elements- HD Video, HD Voice, HD Content Sharing, HD Infrastructure, and HD Services
Polycom ® UltimateHD ™ Architecture Elements HD Video- Maximize your investment with one architecture for both two way and one to many, life-like video communications HD Voice- Provides Life-like sound quality for natural, free-flowing conversations. Experience all the nuances of speech and audio sources remotely with the widest acoustical range HD Content- Maximize your effectiveness by seeing every detail of Content – from the smallest font to a line in a schematic HD Infrastructure- Securely improve productivity with the flexibility to work when and how you want - Simultaneous On-Demand, and scheduled meetings – Extending reach with Border security and Archiving and Streaming appliances HD Services- Planning and design consulting for optimal network and infrastructure performance. Including future requirement and needs analysis planning targeting a true return on investment HD Voice Additional Benefits: Improve comprehension by providing natural, free-flowing conversations Experience all the nuances of speech and audio sources remotely with the widest acoustical range Always know who is speaking with the clear separation of multiple voices and a sense of spatial presence Capture every sound in the room without huddling around a microphone, hear from any location in the room HD Video Additional Benefits: Improve productivity and comprehension via the transmission of crystal clear sounds and highly detailed images High resolution life like and natural motion handling improves effectiveness over a distance Maximize your investment by extending your audience with both two way and one to many video communications Enables new video applications over a distance HD Content Additional Benefits: Maximize your effectiveness by seeing every detail of Content – from the smallest font to a line in a schematic within an HD collaborative meeting Increase your productivity flexibility of sharing people and content simultaneously - from multiple video and audio sources and highly detailed content simultaneously Extend your audience by converting conferences into streaming broadcasts or video on demand HD Infrastructure Additional Benefits Improve productivity with the flexibility to work when and how you want - Simultaneous On-Demand, and scheduled unified collaborative meetings Collaborate across boarders with partners and suppliers – through Secure and federated inter-company connectivity Extend your audience across time zones and remote locations – Recording, streaming and archiving of conferences Maintain your investment with detailed and proactive administrative control of devices and networks Ease of use to maximize return on investment – as simple as dialing a phone number or clicking a name Investment protection - Standards based and backwards compatible HD Services Additional Benefits: We are there to help: Planning and & Design consulting for optimal network and infrastructure performance. Including future requirement and needs analysis planning targeting a true return on investment Deployment & Integration for delivering HD video and voice devices such that they integrate with the existing or planned network architecture Break/Fix Service & On Going Maintenance for ensuring the highest possible system reliability and performance
Why is Polycom ® UltimateHD ™ the Right Choice? Next generation level of multimedia quality and clarity enables an entirely new class of collaboration applications Remote meetings become as engaging as a face to face meetings and dramatically more productive than traditional remote meetings Many meetings that required face to face in the past can now be accomplished remotely with the same immediate understanding of audio and visual subtleties It’s the collaboration core of a unified communications strategy
Enabling Next Generation Applications Surgeons can display operating room procedures to their colleagues millimeter by millimeter Educators can visit the oceans of the world and now see the smallest algae in the water. Manufacturers can check output or part quality in real-time from the factories of their outsourced vendors. Animation filmmakers can see and hear every nuance of the daily footage from teams around the world Aeronautical engineers can collaborate on detailed plans or schematics or look at a defects of 3 dimensional objects Pharmaceutical R&D- Teams can keep drug development on schedule by evaluating highly detailed images, scans, and samples Human Resources/Recruitment and interviewing- Clearly see facial expressions, mannerisms, hand movements, and hear voice inflection
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