Why Poly?
Poly (formerly Plantronics and Polycom)
By Gary Kepekchyan, Joey Morley, and Andrew Mair
The video collaboration industry has been growing and evolving for years. In 2020, the need for humans to connect over video accelerated almost overnight. Enter Poly…
Poly develops products and services that are simple and consistent to use, with the highest quality experience available, and we wrap it all in enterprise-grade security.
Foundational Principles for Video Collaboration
Customers will follow many principles when designing a collaboration solution, here are some of the most important:
- A collaboration solution must be consistent.
- A collaboration solution must be simple to use, deploy, and manage.
- A collaboration solution must have high-quality audio.
- A collaboration solution must have high-quality video.
- A collaboration solution must be secure.
For more info on the foundational principles click here.
Poly Delivers Consistent End to End Solutions
Poly has a complete solution of products and services. The partnerships we enjoy with our video and collaboration service providers are unmatched. Poly’s partners include Microsoft, Zoom, RingCentral, GoToMeeting (Log Me In), and many more.
Poly’s solutions are easy to manage, deploy, use, and secure
Before 2020, IT departments often did not think about managing a webcam, USB peripherals, or headsets. After 2020, that ability is imperative to keeping businesses working and effective. Management is one of the best things about Poly.
Poly's newest cloud offering, Lens, is designed to provide the best information and management tools at your fingertips. But Lens is not alone; Poly has several management tools for any application.
Poly Lens represents how Poly will support new styles of working. It is cloud-based, so it scales with you, maintaining security without the heavy traditional IT overhead. The Poly management portfolio will support your entire collaboration portfolio.
Poly provides the highest quality audio and video experiences
The audio from a Poly device utilizes the vast experience and technology we have cultivated over our history. Starting in the early ’60s with Neil Armstrong’s trip to the moon, Poly redefined the standard for crystal clear, natural voice communications with technology. With Poly’s high-fidelity audio, we bring together noise reduction technology.
NoiseblockAI reduces unwanted sounds while amplifying human speech. Acoustic Fence blocks off the entire sound from unwanted areas like outside your window or another room — no more distractions from kids or wayward lawnmowers ruining your call.
Poly provides the right technology for the right space
Having the right tool for the appropriate application is essential. Poly creates beautifully designed and engineered products that let you see and hear and be seen and heard with incredible clarity wherever you work.
For instance, some cameras are ideal for a group or shared space that require a wide field of view. However, too broad of a view in a personal device exposes too much of the environment where a tighter frame is better.
Poly develops tracking and intelligence into many of our products that will find an individual speaker in a personal environment, frame a group in a larger environment, and even follow an instructor moving from desk to whiteboard without touching a remote control.
Poly’s solutions are secure
Poly utilizes high levels of enterprise security and technology, including end-to-end AES encryption. To find out more, click the following link:
The video revolution is here
As Polys CEO Dave Shull recently said at Enterprise Connect, “the video revolution is here.”
Opportunity often follows adversity if you have the appropriate point of view. Collaboration over video became universal in 2020. More than ever, the principles of consistency, simplicity, great audio, and video quality, with enterprise-grade security matter. Why? Because work is no longer somewhere you go, it is something you do.
Contact your Poly SE (Sales Engineer) to learn more about joining us in this journey.
Article collaborators:
Gary Kepekchyan
Gary Kepekchyan is a Sales Engineer at Poly with over 15 years of experience in the collaboration space. Starting with a background in Microsoft and Networking. Gary has been focused on video conferencing for the last ten years and has deployed and managed various technologies and use cases from the huddle space to large integrated rooms and live broadcasts multi-casted from trade shows. Here at Poly, he now supports customers looking to build out various collaboration tools in SoCal, Nevada, and Utah.
Joey Morley
Joey Morley is a Poly Sales Engineer with nearly 20 years of collaboration solution experience. His journey began in 2002, where he spent four years in the DC-metro area setting up small-medium business telecom & network environments. During the five years between 2006–2011, Joey worked at the Pentagon supporting the United States Army Reserve’s global collaboration solutions, part of which included a global Polycom infrastructure. Over the past ten years, Joey has worked in various pre-sales technical roles at Polycom, Microsoft, channel partners and is now back at Poly, serving Poly’s Pacific Northwest customers.
Andrew Mair
Andrew Mair is a Poly Sales Engineer, author, and blogger. Andrew began his journey with Poly almost ten years ago and has served the channel organization for the last 5 1/2 years. He currently supports the distribution channel and provides technical strategy and overall leadership for pre-sales engineering teams, focused on Channel Sales Enablement. He is a published author, including his Storytelling for Sales Engineers.
