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Polycom Signs U.K. Distribution Agreement With Westcon Group

London and Slough, U.K., 26^th February 2008 – Polycom today announced its partnership in the United Kingdom with Westcon Group, the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility. Through its Westcon Convergence business practice, Westcon Group will distribute Polycom’s collaboration and videoconferencing solutions to its reseller customers.

With this partnership Polycom intends to strengthen its very successful channel model with Westcon Group in the UK. Westcon Group is a clear market leader in advanced technologies and already one of Polycom’s largest global distributors.  With unified communications and videoconferencing growth across all industry sectors, Polycom sees Westcon’s expertise as a natural evolution beyond its existing channel partnerships in the U.K.

Paul Louden, UK & Ireland  VP of Sales, Polycom comments:  “The partnership will allow us to build on our distributor matrix and enhance expertise across all areas.  Westcon brings us a specialty in networking, convergence, security and mobility that will extend and blend in well with both existing and future market opportunities.  We see this agreement building on an already very successful model that is working in other parts of the globe.”

Westcon now carries Polycom’s UltimateHD™ video collaboration systems and with Polycom adhering to open-standards philosophy, the partnership will complement the wide array of networking and security solutions from Cisco, Avaya, Nortel and other manufacturers. 

David Grant, Vice President & General Manager, Westcon agrees: “Westcon Group’s role in partnering with Polycom in the U.K. will be to strengthen and expand the success we have enjoyed in videoconferencing, which we believe is an increasingly competitive and rapidly growing market space.  We look forward to offering Polycom’s video portfolio to UK resellers since, we are already intimately familiar with given our relationship with Polycom in other regions around the world.”

 

About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximise the efficiency and productivity of people and organisations. Polycom delivers the broadest array of high definition telepresence video, wired and wireless voice, and content solutions so people can enjoy the best communications, whether from a real-time collaborative interaction or on-demand streamed video experience. Spanning from the desktop to the industry’s only immersive telepresence suite, Polycom’s high quality collaboration and communications solutions are easy to deploy and manage, as well as intuitive to use. Based on open standards, they integrate seamlessly with leading telephony and presence-based networks. With innovative market-driving technologies, a compelling vision for next generation visual communications, best-in-class products, alliance partnerships, and world-class service, Polycom is the smart choice for organisations to gain a competitive advantage with proven and trusted communication solutions. 

For additional information, Polycom EMEA HQ is based in Slough, Berkshire in the UK.  Polycom EMEA operates in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  For additional information, call 00 800 00 33 44 55 or visit the Polycom web site at www.polycom.com

About Westcon Group
Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Polycom. Through its Westcon, Comstor and Voda One business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit http://www.westcongroup.com/.

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