Video Conference with Business, Family and Friends with Polycom and Microsoft

Starting your own business, working from home, or want to communicate with family and friends via videoconferencing?  It’s all possible with Polycom.  The company has been a leader in videoconferencing solutions for years, offering a host of products to bring this futuristic mode of communication into the here and now.  Their reach is expanding in a current deal with Microsoft to distribute their CX5000 Unified Conference Station (formerly Microsoft RoundTable) as one of the latest devices to work seamlessly with Microsoft Office Communicator , making Polycom videoconferencing solutions a truly plug and play product. 

This unique product does a number of cool things, including offering a 360 degree view of a conference room, allowing all participants in the meeting to be viewed.  It also automatically focuses on the active speaker when they are talking, making the experience more realistic for those watching via video.  The device also feeds into Windows Live Meeting 2007, which allows video, voice, and content to be shared seamlessly.

With this technology employed in your boardroom, you can be at home working on your computer and actively participating in meetings at work as if you were actually there.  The device simply plugs into a USB port on your computer, allowing you to use it from anywhere with your laptop.  The same technology can make it as if you are actually there for larger family events where you want to see everyone, not just one or two people.

Posted on April 24th, 2009

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