SANTA CLARA, CA, Oct. 29, 2009 (Marketwire) --

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/29/09 -- AdvancedTCA Summit 2009 - Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, today announced that its new Polycom RMX(TM) 4000 real-time media conferencing platform was awarded Best Infrastructure Product at the AdvancedTCA® Summit 2009 Best of Show awards ceremony held last night at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Addressing the rapid adoption of visual communication across industries and the increasing scale of deployments, the Polycom RMX 4000 is the industry's most scalable and reliable multipoint conferencing platform capable of supporting hundreds of simultaneous HD video calls and more than a thousand video and audio conference calls. The platform for multi-point collaboration and multi-network connectivity for telepresence, video and voice conferencing enables large organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare networks and service providers to deliver enterprise-wide and business-to-business video services with unrivaled quality, scale and reliability.

The Polycom RMX 4000 leverages a carrier-grade Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) platform that features a unique, unified design. Four media processing cards share the same management system and high-speed backplane, allowing processing resources to be shared seamlessly as a unified system. This provides support for large conferences without cascading to multiple bridges, which equates to lower latency and superior overall quality and performance.

"Leveraging the AdvancedTCA platform allows us to deliver a carrier-grade solution that has significant scalability, performance, reliability and administrative advantages over competing systems," said Joe Sigrist, senior vice president and general manager, Video Solutions, Polycom. "We designed our video network infrastructure solution with a clear focus on where the technology is heading in terms of processing requirements, network scalability and IT administrative concerns, and also in how video will integrate into broader UC platforms and into business processes moving forward."

"We are excited to award the Polycom RMX 4000 as the AdvancedTCA Summit 2009 Best Infrastructure Product for the unique way in which Polycom uses the AdvancedTCA platform to provide solutions to its customer base," said Ernie Bergstrom, AdvancedTCA Summit Chairman. "The elegantly designed Polycom RMX 4000 gives IT organizations a highly-scalable, carrier-grade platform for video communication that can be easily deployed and managed along with their other core communications and network systems."

The Polycom RMX 4000 is the latest addition to Polycom's video network solution that offers the most comprehensive visual communication environments from desktop video to immersive telepresence and the most redundant infrastructure systems to video-enable organizations of all sizes with varying application needs.