Polycom and Juniper Networks announced at the end of January an alliance to improve the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customer experience for telepresence and video conferening services. With the dynamic signaling between the Juniper Network resource control platform and Polycom video call control system will improve delivery and management of visual communications.
Additional information from the official Polycom press release:
Scheduled for release in mid 2010, the alliance will deliver an intelligent service provider solution that enables assured-quality managed video services over a converged network. As the industry's first "conferencing-aware" network solution, it will help drive costs out of the delivery of high-value telepresence and comprehensive video conferencing managed services by allowing service providers to maximize the capabilities of their existing network. Implementing a single-network solution is a significantly more scalable and profitable model for service providers compared to the current overlay network model for supporting telepresence and video conferencing services.






