Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced it will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss its fourth quarter 2007 results on Jan. 23, 2008 at 5 p.m. EST. Bob Hagerty, chairman and CEO, and Mike Kourey, chief financial officer, will host the conference call.

Polycom Receives Nortel Interoperability Certification for Full Line of Polycom SoundPoint IP Desktop Phones and Polycom SoundStation IP 4000 Conference Phone SAN JOSE, Calif. (VON Conference and Expo) - March 15, 2006 - Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that it has completed interoperability testing with the Nortel Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5100 (release 3.5) and 5200 (release 3.0) and received certificates of compatibility for its standards-based SoundPoint® IP desktop phones and the SoundStation® IP 4000 conference phone. The successful completion of the compatibility test audit demonstrates interoperability between Polycom VoIP phones and Nortel MCS platforms.

You will need senior management commitment in order to implement real changes in your organisation. The executive team should deliver the message that video can increase productivity, enhance collaboration, reduce business travel, and decrease your company's carbon footprint. Very few video conferencing deployments have been successful without executive buy-in. According to Young, the risks associated with social networking and messaging applications often point to other internal problems. “Often it’s just an employee trying to solve a problem,” he said. “If the enterprise solves the problem, then the risk goes away.” Crosley added that organizations often calculate risks improperly, being overly conservative when it comes to communications tools. They focus on the wrong things and don’t accurately estimate the real costs associated with adopting versus ignoring a technology.

One of the mistakes organisations often make is using a system of ad hoc dialling; users simply pick up the remote and the video meeting begins. That works when the system belongs to the individual and it is a personal or a desktop solution. However, people usually do not wish to touch any remote controls! A single process means the video call is connected the same way each time - regardless of the type of meeting. Whether it is a point-to-point call or a multi-point call with more than two sites, the process should be the same. You don't have to purchase your own hardware or hire your own staff to run successful video meetings. Most organisations do not have this expertise as their core competency, which is why many companies choose to outsource this responsibility.

Companies tend to make the most mistakes by not appropriately managing their video conferencing environment. This means they are not managing the users, the rooms, the end points, the network, or the video infrastructure. If your video systems are in meeting rooms, those are often scheduled resources.