Polycom introduces High Definition (HD) Video Conferencing Media Server

July 30th, 2008 by Video Conferencing Expert

Polycom, a global provider in telepresence, video conferencing services and voice communications solutions, today announced the release of its new system, the RMX 1000, a high-performance multipoint video conferencing communication platform for small and medium businesses. Complementing the existing RMX 2000 for medium and large business networks, the RMX 1000 enables on-demand video conferencing and online collaboration supporting multiple sites in the same calls with their UltimateHD technology, a high definition video conferencing, voice and multimedia content sharing capabilities service.

Polycom Vice President, Joe Sigrist:

The use of visual communication is growing because it effectively addresses major collaboration issues inherent to distributed, enterprise organizations as well as critical business challenges driven by globalization, socio-economic factors and the move toward more environmentally sustainable business practices. Our customers are looking to deploy video more broadly across their organizations from telepresence rooms to mass scale desktop video collaboration. The RMX 1000 supports this as part of Polycom’s comprehensive solution portfolio for visual communication.”

The RMX 1000 and RMX 2000 media servers are optimized for high-performance video conferencing communication. using technology based on open standards, the solutions enable multipoint video conference calls across different network environments and between different types of video devices, transcoding the various speeds and protocols to provide the optimal experience to each system based on the capabilities of the systems in a call.

The RMX 1000 supports HD video, HD content sharing and high quality audio which offers the benefits of both enhanced clarity and stereo surround sound which separates voices when multiple parties speak simultaneously. Like the RMX 2000, the RMX 1000 supports secure online conferencing through AES media encryption and provides an optimal experience even on slower networks with Polycom’s Lost Packet Recovery technology, which minimizes the damaging impact of network congestion and packet loss on the video conference call experience.

Multimedia Educational IT Specialist, Mark Crowl:

The RMX 1000 is a great high performance, multipoint platform for distributed video networks as well as a solid solution for small campuses. Set up was easy — we had the system up and running in under an hour — and we put the bridge through its paces, including cascading calls between the RMX 2000 and RMX 1000. The on-board management and scheduling capabilities are intuitive, and the HD video, content and audio quality is great and well suited for our distance learning and tele-medicine applications.

For small and medium-sized enterprises the RMX 1000 is a cost-effective solution for bringing high-performance multipoint video conferencing capabilities in house. The plug-and-play platform is easy to deploy and contains on-board capabilities for centralized scheduling and management.