Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications, has announced plans to set up an office in Dubai as its Middle East headquarters. The Middle East office, scheduled to be operational in November 2008, will have a team of people focusing on market development activities in the region, supporting its local distributor, FVC and global partners like Nortel.
"In the current global financial scenario and in view of the soaring travel costs, the adoption of our unified collaboration solutions worldwide has gone up," said Steve Leyland, Vice President, Polycom EMEA. "We have a commitment to this region. While we will continue to rely on our partners to maintain strong presence in all the markets in the Middle East and North Africa region, our presence is necessary to boost our market share of the growing video and voice market in the region."
As the player with the industry's broadest collaboration solutions range and an expanding voice portfolio, Polycom telepresence solutions support virtually any environment with fully interoperable, standards-based solutions from personal telepresence for the desktop; room telepresence for conference rooms; specialised solutions for vertical applications; custom integrated-rooms; and immersive telepresence solutions that make people feel like they are in the same room as people in other locations. It's high definition (HD) telepresence solutions helps reduce travel while increasing productivity - saving high out-of-pocket costs and eliminating the opportunity cost of being on the road. This in turn achieves carbon emission reductions, a growing concern throughout the world.
Polycom has been present in the Middle East through its partners for over eight years.
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