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AT&T, Polycom Partner On Video Meetings

By TechTaffy Desk

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AT&T and Polycom have signed an agreement to personalize, mobilize and virtualize video meetings.

Enabled by the AT&T Business Exchange, MPLS, Internet and mobility networks and the Polycom RealPresence platform, the agreement is expected to create greater availability of cloud-delivered video communication capabilities. The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a software infrastructure for universal video, on-premises or in the cloud collaboration, interoperating with the broadest set of applications, devices and network protocols.

The first wave of capabilities include AT&T and the Polycom RealPresence platform, fully managed service bundles, and VPN Services.

[Image courtesy: Polycom]

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