Customer Success Stories
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Polycom's Face-To-Face Communication, Regardless of Location, Supports Gallaher's Global Growth And Expansion
Gallaher, the international tobacco company, is using video communications to support its dramatic growth and global expansion. Polycom video communications equipment is being used to link its offices in major European cities and factories around the world, including the UK, Moscow, Vienna, Ukraine and Poland. More details…
Polycom Video Conferencing Supports First Open Global Forum And Debate On Africa's Most Critical Health Issues
Polycom's ViewStation video conferencing systems joined together world leaders in the African Union Summit's Special Session on Africa's biggest health problems. The Summit unites world leaders using Polycom video conferencing, Internet and satellite technologies to discuss HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at African Union Summit.
Polycom's video conferencing systems together with its MGC-100 Multipoint Control Units was used to enable a live video conference between the forum sites in Maputo, Durban, Nairobi, Geneva, Washington DC and the Department for International Development in London. Dimension Data, Polycom's channel partner in South Africa is also providing technical support in Maputo. Additional sites joining via audio conference are located in New York and Dublin. The meeting was also broadcast live on radio and television and webcast on the Internet. More details…
Polycom E-Learning Video Conferencing Solution gives students unprecedented interaction with science experts
Imperial College E-MasterClass Delivers Interactive Lecture to Five Schools on Scientific Developments in Medical Treatments. Polycom provided its iPower™ 680 video conferencing systems to five schools to enable them to participate in the first Schools e-MasterClass, an interactive scientific event that gave students rare access to science experts. More details...
Polycom Video Communications Solutions Transform Educational Experience of Hospitalised Children at James Brindley School
The James Brindley School located within the Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital in Birmingham has chosen Polycom's iPower 600 video conferencing system to provide integrated video and data collaboration to improve the standard of education provided, increase business efficiency and, in certain cases, enable doctors to hasten patient recovery. More details...
Polycom State-Of-The-Art Video Communications Solution Broadens Scope And Content Of Education In Northern England
ViewStation EX Advanced Mid-Range Videoconferencing System made its European Debut in Education Schools. The ViewStation EX aids the schools to benefit from unprecedented access to external contacts and specialists, realising the Government's initiative to develop video communications as a mainstream learning medium. Tong School, Bradford and Middleton Technology School, Manchester are to exploit the power of video communications in education using state-of-the-art technology.
Each School is in the process of deploying the ViewStation EX video conferencing system from Polycom The ViewStation EX offers unprecedented functions and features for a mid-range system making top-quality video communications more affordable to not-for-profit organisations, such as schools, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. The ViewStation EX also enables larger enterprises to expand their video conferencing deployments. The ViewStation EXs will mean that all students will be able to communicate and share specialist teaching and content resources with other City Learning Centres and participate in social projects as well as have face-to-face contact with remotely located specialists. More details …
Surgical Procedures To Be Shown Via Live Video Conference Using Polycom Video Communications Solution
Worldwide experts in Ear Nose & Throat (Otolaryngology) surgery at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham are to be linked via video conference to the operating theatres at Clinique Causse, Colombiers, France. The link is made possible through the use of ViewStation FX as video conferencing is increasingly being used within the medical sector as a tool to aid communication and share expertise.
Two operations will be performed and transmitted live bringing together the surgeons at the Clinique Causse in France and the delegates at the Convention Centre in Birmingham via the Polycom ViewStation FX's installed in each location. The ViewStation FX meets the exacting requirements of the use of video conferencing within a medical environment - excellent video quality, optimum image definition, the ability to share data as well as high quality audio capability. More details…
Borough of Hackney Shows IP Video Communications Are Key To Education In the 21st Century
Highwire, Hackney's City Learning Centre (CLC), was the first of its kind to open in the UK with its aim to improve teaching and learning in the Borough of Hackney through the use of the very latest IT and communications technology (ICT), particularly video communications. Highwire's implementation of ViewStation 512 and ViewStation FX video conferencing systems from Polycom, has enabled Highwire to link nine secondary and two primary schools using video conferencing over IP to create virtual classrooms. Highwire has proved that harnessing technology and video communications in education can have a big impact, allowing schools to add input to subjects across the curriculum while saving time and maximising the use of available resources and expertise.
Head teachers in Hackney have driven the use of video conferencing as a new approach to education, as they believe that schools within the Borough benefit enormously from the use of such technology. Pupils can now participate in multi-site lessons regardless of the location of their school allowing teachers to deliver specialised teaching to small groups of pupils across the Borough, including talented children or those with specific needs or interests. They hold master classes, teaching update video conferences. More details…
Video Conference Reunites Iraqi And American Teenagers
Global Nomads Group Presents Project Voice: After The War Students meet face-to-face in post-war climate to discuss cultural issues in a live, interactive video conference using Polycom video conferencing systems.
GNG is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to heightening children's understanding and appreciation for the world and its people. Using a combination of live remote broadcasting (satellite uplink) and video conferencing, GNG brings youth together face-to-face to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss world issues that affect and unite us all. More details …
Productivity Gains at Presentations Company DRP Validates Benefits of Polycom Video Communications Solutions for SME Market
Presentations company, DRP, has boosted productivity dramatically following deployment of a Polycom video communications solution, based on Polycom ViewStation 512s. The solution has speeded up both the decision-making and approval processes, improved customer service and facilitated international business expansion. More details...
Polycom IP Video Communication Solution Adds An Extra Dimension to Care for Cystic Fibrosis Patients
West Midlands Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre situated in Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, is a centre of excellence for cystic fibrosis treatment. The Centre has recently deployed Polycom ViewStation 4000 and ViaVideo video communication systems to facilitate the co-ordination of out-patient care and provide advice on a range of therapies. By enabling face-to-face meetings to be held patients are spared the time, effort and cost involved in travelling to the hospital. More details…
Polycom Makes Communications Plain Sailing For Brittany Ferries
Video communications between France and the UK save time and money, and enable better, faster business decisions. With offices at four French ports and three in the UK the video conferencing link improves both international and national communications. More details…
Polycom Video Conferencing Extends the Reach and Content of Education in Edinburgh
Edinburgh's Education Department is an early adopter of the national government initiative to develop video conferencing as a mainstream learning medium. To date, three Edinburgh high schools and their cluster primary schools have deployed 24 Polycom ViewStation group video conferencing systems as well as a number of Polycom ViaVideo desktop video conferencing systems. More details..
UK Department of Health and France's Largest Dialysis Centre Highlight Polycom's Leadership in Telemedicine at Health Care Computing 2003.
The Saint Brieuc Hospital, Brittany, provides 14,000 dialysis sessions every year and supervises a part-time dialysis centre at Lannion, some 20km away, using Polycom (Hall M, Stand M60) video communications systems. Nursing staff at Lannion have constant access to doctors at the St Brieuc Hospital throughout the whole dialysis process for every patient.
This use of live video for long distance medical supervision was estimated to have saved French social security around euros 34,071 on reduced travel costs for patients to attend dialysis sessions. This equates to 22.5% of the annual cost of providing dialysis at the Lannion temporary centre. Polycom?s iPower video communications systems were chosen for their simplicity of use, reliability and the high quality of sound and moving image they provide. More details...
Polycom Improves operating efficiency and saved daily expenses at China Construction Bank (CCB)
One of China's top four state-owned commercial banks, has announced the completion of a nationwide video conferencing network built using Polycom video endpoints and video infrastructure systems. The new network, which links regional offices in 38 provincial capitals, will be used to improve operating efficiency and speed face-to-face communications between executives at the CCB's Beijing headquarters and those in the capitals.
CCB is one of China's biggest lenders, operating tens of thousands of branches and sub-branches across the country. Prior to the video deployment, executives from different branches travelled long distances to headquarters for reporting, and officers from the headquarters also spent significant time and money on business travel. CCB's video deployment has improved operating efficiency and saved daily expenses. More details...
International Law Firm Osborne Clarke Chooses Polycom Video Communications Solution
International law firm Osborne Clarke is deploying Polycom video communications to enable greater business flexibility and efficiency. The company has selected Polycom ViewStation 512 MP systems which allow essential legal meetings to take place at short notice, tight timescales to be met and travel costs to be reduced. More details...
Goodyear chooses Polycom for video communications solution
World's largest tyre company chooses Polycom's ViewStation, Global Management System and MGC-50 for global end-to-end video communications solution.
Goodyear has deployed video communications in its facilities throughout North and South America and Europe to reduce travel expenses, enhance collaboration among its employees and increase the company's productivity. Goodyear uses the Polycom Global Management System™ software to manage its video communications network, which consists of ViewStation® 512 endpoints, and is deploying an MGC™-50 multipoint control unit for bridging point-to-point and multipoint video calls in a mixed ISDN (H.320) and IP (H.323) network environment. More details...
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