HP Partners with Polycom as Cisco Split Grows

HP said it will incorporate Polycom's video and voice collaboration products into its UC portfolio as it continues its competition with Cisco. HP also apparently is dropping its partnership with Tandberg. In addition, HP also announced support of Microsoft's upcoming enhanced UC platform.

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its partnership with Polycom, one of several new steps in building up its unified communications offerings and the latest moves in HP's growing competition against Cisco Systems.

HP and Polycom announced March 22 at the VoiceCon 2010 show in Orlando, Fla., that HP will start selling Polycom's portfolio of voice and video technologies as part of its UC&C (Unified Communications and Collaboration) Services offerings, and that Polycom's line of telepresence and video conferencing products will interoperate with HP's Halo telepresence solution.

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