posted by: Mark Cortner
Polycom recently announced an impressive array of updates to its RMX 2000 videoconferencing platform that delivers several groundbreaking capabilities for enterprises multi-site videoconferencing applications. The new capabilities include 1080p and broadcast-quality 720p HD quality, expanded capacity and increased scalability, and the flexibility to support pure HD or mixed-resolution video environments.
The new version of the platform, the RMX 2000 V4.0 addresses a range of visual collaboration applications including traditional room-based videoconferencing, immersive room and personal telepresence, and broad-scale desktop video collaboration. The platform architecture is IP-based and built upon the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) and interestingly, also incorporates a modular IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) design—to support highly scalable next-generation visual collaboration deployments via the cloud.
The ability to bridge mixed-resolution environments will be a further catalyst for the videoconferencing market, and in particular, Polycom. The interest in HD technology has been a contributing factor to the revived interest in videoconferencing, but most organizations today have mixed-resolution environments—in fact the vast majority of existing enterprise videoconferencing assets support either CIF or standard-definition video as opposed to HD. Furthermore, the majority of HD-capable videoconferencing systems that have been purchased over the last several years are typically used for non-HD conferencing sessions. Polycom has bridged the mixed-resolution gap was created with the emergence of HD and telepresence video experiences and has delivered a platform that meet a broad collection of videoconferencing applications, from scalable desktop video to a full telepresence experience, within a single platform.
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