By combining their business, product and service strategy with fundamental technical expertise, this alliance will provide technology, managed services, strategic consulting and end-to-end communications solutions to the world's leading organizations across the globe.

"Interest in visual communication has never been greater. Today's solutions effectively address some of the critical business challenges that customers are facing in today's global business environment," said Ron Myers, Vice President of Channels at Polycom, a leading manufacturer of visual communication solutions. "The OnePresence Alliance offers customers comprehensive, global services and support to address all of their visual communication needs."

The OnePresence Alliance is built on common standards of service delivery geared to provide a single point of responsibility for our global customers," stated Ken Scaturro, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development at York Telecom. "This manufacturer recognized Alliance meets the expanded needs of our multi-national customer and partner community."

Mark Buckley, Chief Executive Office of Vantage Systems, describes the OnePresence Alliance as a partnership among peers who have a similar view of the future of visual communication. "The current economic climate drives the rapid adoption of visual communication as the world's leading organizations seek alternatives to traditional travel and meetings. The gloss of business trips around the world has long gone. Cost savings, improved productivity and business sustainability are today's top priorities. To address these needs we offer alternatives in form of effective audio, video and web communication solutions," Buckley said.

OnePresence allows organizations to receive easy, reliable and cost effective global visual communications service and related support. They can take advantage of an 'always-on' service and support model facilitating a flawless experience and removing boundaries in any visual communication environment.

Traditional systems integrators and telecommunications providers struggle due to breadth and depths of skills required delivering and maintaining the complete portfolio of conferencing and collaboration solutions from immersive telepresence studios to executive desktop systems.