Face-to-face meetings are more productive than speaking over the phone, but the expense and the time and resources wasted in business travel can be a significant burden for SMBs. With Polycom business-grade video conferencing and telepresence solutions, SMBs can see and collaborate with peers, vendors, and customers on the other side of the world at the touch of a button.

Unlike "free" or consumer video applications, Polycom's business-grade video conferencing and telepresence solutions are made for business and deliver consistent and dependable high-quality conversations. Polycom solutions are differentiated with advanced technologies to provide a clear picture in spite of difficult network conditions—and they use up to half the bandwidth of other video offerings.

Polycom has a broad portfolio of offerings that include personal systems for use on the desktop, as "huddle" solutions in an office, and group systems for use in conference rooms—and each is easy to install and use. For more advanced deployments, Polycom offers conference platforms for multiparty conferencing, recording and streaming, and other infrastructure support solutions.

Polycom partners with value-added resellers and service provider partners all over the world to help SMBs choose and install complete video conferencing solutions designed to meet each SMB's unique requirements.

Polycom and New England Communications enable:

• Complete video conferencing and telepresence systems with multiple deployment options including hosted/cloud (video as a service), managed, and premise-based installations
• The industry’s best video conferencing quality with Polycom Ultimate HD™ technology
• Devices and systems at a variety of price points and capabilities
• Systems that easily scale as business needs change
• Solutions that integrate with existing business systems such as e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing, presence, mobile and video for more efficient workflows