Polycom^® Solutions for Higher Education

Administration

In today's competitive environment, educational institutions are highly concerned with intercampus connectivity, operating more efficiently, and reducing travel costs. Administrators must manage busy schedules that are inundated with meetings, briefings, and regulatory requirement deadlines. Enable accelerated decision making, and accomplish organizational goals and objectives with Polycom's advanced voice, video, and content collaboration solutions.

• Achieve cost avoidance and generate revenue – Save resources by reducing travel while increasing revenue extended reach to alumni, businesses, and increasing student enrollment
• Rapidly transfer knowledge – Provide, staff and administration with the ability to collaborate and coordinate faster regardless of being geographically or time constrained
• Provide access to services – Meet mandated requirements and extend programs like outreach or student services to all locations with a virtual presence
• Enhance facilities management – Ensure the optimum connection and communications across campuses regardless of the network or endpoint equipment used by enabling unified communications

Polycom Video Conference Personal Systems – For the administrator who needs to stay connected regardless of geographically dispersed activities such as cross-campus meetings or interaction with key organizations, collaborate and streamline by connecting from your desktop.

Polycom Video Conference Room Systems – Whether conducting board meetings, faculty/administration collaborations, or interviewing candidates, HD video solutions offer3-dimensional depth of picture and sharing of HD content such as presentations/videos.

Polycom Immersive Telepresence Solutions – For face-to-face academic meetings as real as possible, provide a natural, "across the table" experience where true-to-life dimensions allow interaction to read the body language of others as if in the same room.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – When communicating across campuses or capturing content, create, manage and deliver real-time or multi-media content to browsers, desktops, digital signage screens, conference rooms, auditoriums, and more.

Polycom Voice Solutions – Gain access to key resources and information reaching into and beyond the campus whether in a board meeting or reaching staff with life-like high fidelity audio that sounds as natural as being in the room.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Instructional Applications and Distance Learning

Educators must provide a superior education with relevant and engaging academic programs of study to produce knowledge workers for a global economy. Now more than ever, distance learning has the potential to change the teacher and learner experience. By using Polycom's collaborative solutions educators are able to offer a low-cost, high-impact way to extend the interactive learning experience. Solutions like music mode and closed captioning removes limitations.

• Extend course offerings – Expand degree and non-degree programs across campuses, to businesses or to secondary institutions while managing faculty shortages
• Enhance and share expertise – greatly extend the scope of your classroom or research activities by tapping globally into the field of experts, partners, and professionals
• Improve student learning outcomes and reduce attrition – Blend technologies to create an engaging learning environment through synchronous face-to-face and asynchronous collaboration
• Integrate with other learning tools – Easily integrate with leading learning management and course management systems, annotation boards and multimedia content

Polycom Video Conference Room Systems – Connect faculty or students at geographically dispersed sites, in set distance learning rooms or with portable roll-about enabled rooms through high definition two-way and multi-point capable units.

Polycom Immersive Telepresence Solutions – For the ultimate learning experience, provide a natural environment as the instructor moves about a room and true-to-life dimensions allow reading the body language of others as if in the same room.

Polycom Video Content Management Solutions – Polycom Video Content Management solutions enable colleges and universities to create, manage and deliver live and on-demand streaming video, including captured video conference sessions, for distance learning initiatives that students can view online from anywhere and at any time.

Polycom Video Conference Personal Systems – Desktop video conferencing is ideally suited for distance learning by allowing the generation and receiving of learning from a Mac or PC. Easily bring in enhancing curriculum from a content experts’ desktop.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – Capture, manage, and deliver multi-media content real-time or for on-demand viewing to browsers, digital signage screens, rooms, or auditoriums. Track student viewing and integrate chat sessions.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure – Empower high quality life-like group collaboration over video. Create meeting rooms for classes or student work teams. Faculty can easily drop in virtually to facilitate or provide feedback.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Mobility Telephony Solutions for Higher Education

Improving communications anytime, anywhere throughout campuses fosters safer facilities, enhances operational and facilities management processes, and achieves cost savings. Polycom solutions provide campus wide coverage while providing mobility for administrators, faculty, staff and students as they move about the campus and more effectively manage their time. Polycom offers the most durable, feature-rich, and cost-effective VoIP and wireless telephone solutions enhance unified communications to meet institutional challenges.

• Improve mobility – Comply with a changing society to allow administrators, faculty, and staff to connect and collaborate where and when desired
• Enhance safety and security effectiveness – Instantly verify points of contact, communicate instantaneously with vocal and visual access, and view reactions in crisis situations to decisions with a sound of a voice or the touch of a button
• Open communication channels among staff as they manage the daily operations of large campuses

Polycom Wireless Telephony Solutions – Leveraging off of an existing campus Wi-Fi computer network infrastructure, the addition of voice mobility is highly cost effective. Interoperability enables easy integration with existing PBX systems.

Polycom SpectraLink® 8000 Systems – Polycom SpectraLink® 8000 systems are a Wi-Fi, standards-based, converged solution for legacy PBX systems and enterprise IP networks.

Polycom Desktop Voice Solutions – Reduce capital and operational costs with one-touch voice and video in a life-like meeting experience directly from the desktop. Video-enabled phones provide key visual contact in crisis situations.

Polycom Desktop Video Conferencing Systems – Stay visually connected regardless of location enabling more productive meetings and real-time decision making.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.