Polycom®, Inc named as one of the top five most innovative companies.

9th March 2005


Polycom®, Inc. has been recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of telecommunications and networking industries’ five most innovative companies. The magazine named Polycom, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Qualcomm and Plantronics as most innovative from an original field of 119 public companies.

Polycom was hailed for skillfully building its collaborative communications platform through effective integration of internal and external networks consisting of geographically dispersed research and development centres of excellence, technology partnerships that include Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft and Nortel, and several strategic acquisitions.

Polycom, which has over 400 patents registered or pending worldwide, has brought innovation to the conferencing and collaboration markets. The company’s intellectual property is behind many of today’s international industry standards.

Hans Schwarz, Polycom CTO and chief architect, noted: “Virtually half of our research and development comes from groups outside North America. We drive all our own development as well as co-development with our partners using an open architecture we call PAC which coordinates our efforts and ensures our solutions will integrate seamlessly on every network.”

“ When we look to acquire capabilities to extend our portfolio, we have two criteria: the company must have strong technical talent and it must increase our bottom line within two quarters.”

(Taken from Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter 09/03/05)

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