Polycom Partners with Redington to Distribute RealPresence Video Solutions

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications, today announced its partnership with Redington (India) Ltd, a leading integrated supply chain solution provider, to deliver Polycom’s leading unified communications and video collaboration solutions to the Sri Lankan market.

Under this partnership, Redington will act as a distributor for Polycom’s RealPresence video collaboration solutions in Sri Lanka, extending Polycom’s reach and delivering on its strategy to offer a comprehensive suite of business solutions across a number of sectors from enterprise to healthcare, education, government and manufacturing. Redington also acts a distributor for Polycom in India.

According to estimates by industry analyst firm Frost and Sullivan, the Sri Lankan video conferencing market is currently witnessing a growth of 25.5 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), and is expected to reach $4.5 million by 2017’

This initiative is in line with Polycom’s vision of making video collaboration ubiquitous. Polycom will delivercutting-edge technology that makes video and voice collaboration simple to use and available to everyone.

Based on open, standards-based software-delivered on-premises or from the cloud, Polycom solutions connect people securely across any network, protocol, application or device they want to use.

“Sri Lankan businesses are looking for ways to enhance their competiveness and accelerate productivity locally and globally. Our expertise in delivering high-quality vertical solutions will help enable Sri Lankan businesses to use video collaboration for mission critical business needs and as their preferred way to collaborate-easily reliably, securely, anywhere and anytime,” said Neeraj Gill, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Polycom. “We are pleased to be partnering with Redington to deliver Polycom’s productivity-enhancing video collaboration solutions to the Sri Lankan market,” added Gill.

Polycom is driving the ubiquity of video collaboration through multiple routes to new and expanding markets, and through its RealPresence Platform.