room experience, a secure guest access capability on Polycom Pano, and the extension of the company’s partnership with Zoom to launch Polycom Zoom Rooms.

Polycom Trio

Polycom Trio will work with Polycom’s industry-leading video codecs in addition to today’s VisualPlus, opening the door to videoconferencing capabilities previously reserved for larger rooms, such as the facial tracking feature found in Polycom EagleEye Director II and Polycom EagleEye Producer. Polycom Trio will also be able to offer an optimised room experience with dual monitor support, enhanced audio coverage with ceiling-mounted microphones, and improved HDMI connectivity. With no need for additional remote controls, Polycom Trio’s touch screen becomes the only interface needed to manage call volume, camera zoom, and more.

Already adopted by 65 Fortune 100 companies, Polycom Trio is driving digital transformation whilst ensuring a consistent user experience, whether employees are joining a meeting with audio only, or participating in a video call. By expanding this experience to larger rooms, organisations will be able to benefit from increased productivity, as the process of starting audio and video meetings will become simpler and quicker.

“Customers have higher expectations than ever before for meeting rooms—they want every meeting space to be a true collaboration center with simple voice, video, and content sharing,” said Mary McDowell, Polycom CEO. “Polycom continues to lead the way with Polycom Trio, making it the simplest way for our customers to connect, communicate, and be productive.”

The new functionalities will be supported by software updates to Polycom Trio and Polycom’s Group Series codecs, available from July.

Polycom Pano

Polycom Pano will now feature a “guest access”’ to allow business consultants, customers, partners, or contractors to connect and share content through a secure guest Wi-Fi network. The Polycom Pano will run on a second wireless network and operate in receive-only mode ensuring the highest level of security, allowing meeting attendees to confidently connect and share with a single touch. Polycom Pano supports up to four devices simultaneously and allows users to share presentations, documents, videos, and images with ease, whilst offering the ability to annotate files with its infinite whiteboard feature.

The Polycom Pano update will be released in July.

Zoom Rooms

Polycom has enhanced its partnership with Zoom to offer customers the best Zoom experience through the its premier Polycom Trio conference “smart phone”, and to support Zoom Rooms on Polycom’s audio and video solutions. The new Polycom Zoom Rooms solution is available in three packages, suitable for all business needs, from huddle spaces to large meeting rooms. As part of the package, users can operate the Polycom Trio, whilst running the Zoom controller UI natively, creating the full Zoom Rooms control experience. The three packages are:

• The Huddle Room Bundle – To provide the best Zoom Rooms experience for the growing number of huddle rooms, the Polycom Trio 8500 Zoom Room includes Trio 8500, new Eagle Eye Mini camera, and the Dell Optiplex.
• The Mid-Sized Conference Room Bundle – Increasing the meeting size and need for quality engagement requires the next level of solution. This Trio 8500 Plus Zoom Room bundle adds the powerful EagleEye IV MPTZ camera to the Trio 8500 and Dell Optiplex. The EagleEye IV brings HD video quality to the Zoom Rooms experience.
• The Large Conference Room Bundle – The larger conference room Zoom Rooms experience bundle, the Trio 8800 Zoom Room, includes the more powerful Trio 8800 along with EagleEye IV MPTZ HD video camera and Dell Optiplex. Polycom Trio 8800 has more advanced speakers designed to deliver clear, rich audio fidelity in larger rooms.

“Customers have told us they want our premium Polycom in-room experience with the flexibility and simplicity of Zoom, so we’re excited to expand our partnership with Zoom into the Zoom Rooms space,”, said Laura Marx, vice president of global alliance and partner marketing ay Polycom. “Making our state-of-the-art Polycom Trio conference phone the centre of the meeting room experience means customers enjoy an easy, consistent experience to create meaningful connections.”

“Partnering with Polycom on Zoom Rooms solutions reinforces Zoom’s commitment to create the best meeting experiences for our enterprise users.  With Trio as the Zoom Rooms controller and audio source and Polycom cameras in the room, users benefit from our outstanding audio and video quality, ease of use, and reliability,” said Oded Gal, head of product management for Zoom.

Polycom’s Zoom Rooms bundles will be available in EMEA later this year.