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Polycom, Inc., the global leader in open standards-based unified communications, has 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 & Sullivan, the Sri Lankan video conferencing market is currently witnessing a growth of 25.5 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), and is expected to reach $4.5 million by 20171.
This initiative is in line with Polycom’s vision of making video collaboration ubiquitous. Polycom will deliver cutting-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 India and Polycom SAARC Managing Director Neeraj Gill.
“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, which integrates with hundreds of business, UC and social networking applications, as well as core networking and security infrastructure. The RealPresence Platform transforms islands of employees and fragmented communications systems into a seamless video enterprise, which makes enterprise-grade video easily and securely accessible to all authorised personnel whether they’re mobile, remote, or on-site.
“Polycom’s solutions are best-in-class. In partnering with Polycom, we plan to leverage our widespread network and go-to-market strategy, together with Polycom’s industry-leading RealPresence video solutions to expand its presence in the Sri Lanka market in response to the growing demand by Sri Lankan businesses for smarter and innovative collaboration solutions that enable face to face visual communications,” said Redington Head Strategic Business Anand Chakravarthy.
