
Polycom, the top-ranked vendor in a recent Forrester report on room-based videoconferencing (ahead of Cisco and LifeSize) has unveiled a wide-ranging portfolio of new software, platform enhancements and hardware. The aim, according to the company, is to “accelerate mass adoption of video collaboration” by making it easier to connect to Polycom’s infrastructure from outside the corporate firewall, easier to participate in video meetings once connected, and less expensive for organisations to deploy video communication as a routine line-of-business application. Read the full story at ZDNet.