AT&T, Polycom Announce Strategic Agreement

As organizations of all types look to accelerate the adoption of video-based communications and video-enabled business processes, AT&T*

and Polycom, Inc.,

announced today a strategic agreement to personalize, mobilize and virtualize video meetings. Enabled by the industry-leading AT&T Business Exchange, MPLS, Internet and mobility networks and the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, the agreement will create greater availability of cloud-delivered video communication capabilities – giving customers unmatched choice in when, how, and where they collaborate. The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video, on-premises or in the cloud collaboration, interoperating with the broadest set of applications, devices and network protocols. "AT&T and Polycom's announcement is a big win for customer choice and interoperability, and it will help accelerate video collaboration as businesses increasingly look to cloud-delivered options," said Zeus Kerravala, Principle Analyst, ZKResearch. "In addition, this agreement opens new revenue streams and business opportunities for AT&T, and demonstrates the momentum Polycom is having with service providers and in the video cloud market."  "In the Pervasive Video Era of 2013, people want instant access to