Vietnam Post &
Telecommunications Selects Polycom(R) RealPresence(R) Platform to Power First
Cloud-Delivered, Video-as-a-Service Offering in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM, Mar 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Vietnam Post & Telecommunication (VNPT), the largest telecommunications
carrier in Vietnam, today officially announced the launch of MegaConference, a
new cloud-delivered video conferencing service for businesses, in collaboration
with Polycom, Inc., the global leader in standards-based unified communications
(UC) solutions. MegaConference is a subscription-based video conferencing
service, also known as Video-as-a-Service (VaaS), designed to deliver a
face-to-face communication solution in a pay-as-you-use model to businesses,
allowing for more efficient collaboration anywhere and anytime.
The MegaConference service is powered by the Polycom(R) RealPresence(R)
Platform -- the most comprehensive and interoperable software infrastructure
for universal video collaboration, providing the carrier-grade scalability,
reliability, availability, and security required for service providers to
deliver VaaS offerings to SMBs and enterprises.
Video collaboration is taking off in countries throughout Asia, and in
emerging markets such as Vietnam. A recent Forrester survey found that 55
percent of APAC businesses already use video conferencing today, and 84 percent
of firms in APAC have either implemented video or plan to within the next
year.(1)
The new MegaConference offering will provide Vietnam organizations with
a secure, high-quality, reliable, flexible and cost-effective collaboration
solution to support and drive productivity and efficiencies in day-to-day
business operations. MegaConference is available in four levels of service
offerings, tailored to address the diversified needs of organizations at any
scale and in any industry, including government, healthcare, education,
hospitality and enterprises.
"In the current competitive landscape, businesses are tasked with
finding the most efficient and cost-effective ways to increase productivity and
accelerate operations at a faster pace than ever before," said Mr. Pham
Duc Long, Vice Director of VNPT HCMC. "Increasingly, Vietnam businesses
are turning to video collaboration as a mission-critical productivity tool, and
cloud-based Video-as-a-Service options make it fast and easy to deliver video
conferencing while dramatically reducing the cost to support multi-party video
meetings. Our service packages are designed to meet the needs of every
business. MegaConference is the right video solution to deliver not only cost
savings for our customers, but also provide a higher level of flexibility and
productivity that supports business growth."
VNPT selected the Polycom RealPresence Platform as the software
infrastructure of choice due to the unique open-standards approach of the
platform, which ensures integration with hundreds of unified communications, business
and social networking applications, bridging silos, and truly unifying
communications across the enterprise. The Polycom RealPresence Platform
seamlessly integrates with VNPT's core networking and security infrastructure
to deliver secure collaboration across heterogeneous networks with up to 50
percent less bandwidth consumption than other solutions in the marketplace
today. The RealPresence Platform delivers the industry's only true
carrier-grade reliability and scale, supporting up to 75,000 device
registrations and 25,000 concurrent sessions.
"We are confident in choosing Polycom as our solution provider to
deploy this service for our customers, as they bring expertise and leadership
in standards-based unified communications and video collaboration solutions.
The Polycom RealPresence Platform is helping VNPT get to market faster, while
enabling us to easily manage the delivery and provisioning of the
MegaConference service," Mr. Pham Duc Long added.
"As the leading telecommunications carrier in Vietnam, VNPT
requires the most comprehensive collaboration solution, delivering open,
standards-based video communications with fast and easy deployment for this
advanced service offering. Polycom is proud to be selected by VNPT to supply
our RealPresence Platform for their ground-breaking Video-as-a-Service offering
to Vietnam organizations," said Mr. Chris Taylor, Polycom Regional
Director for ASEAN, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. "Service providers are
critical partners to drive video collaboration growth through
Video-as-a-Service offerings, which will dramatically lower the up-front
investment for SMBs and enterprises, enabling them to reap the benefits of
video collaboration. Polycom's vision is to make video collaboration ubiquitous
by delivering easy-to-use, standards-based software to anyone, across any
environment and any device, and through new platforms such as cloud-based video
delivered by service providers."
The MegaConference service was originally piloted by 20 businesses in
December 2011 and subsequently deployed and supported by VNCTC, Polycom's
system integrator partner in Vietnam. Feedback from the pilot was
overwhelmingly positive, as one trial-customer stated: "The MegaConference
service, supported by the scalability, security and reliability of the Polycom
RealPresence Platform, proved to be highly efficient in delivering rapid cost
savings and this really changed the traditional methods of face-to-face
meetings for our organization. MegaConference enabled us to save not only on
costs and time, but increased employee productivity quite substantially,"
said Mr. Nguyen Van An, Deputy Director General, Hoa Binh Construction and
Business JSc. "We will be fully subscribing to this service and deploying
it across our organization for greater efficiencies."
Note to editors: for more information, see the related press release
about Polycom's cloud strategy.
About VNPT
VNPT is the number one group in Vietnam in terms of Post,
Telecommunications and Information Technology Development. Its mission it to
deliver the best in post, telecommunication and IT technologies in order to
provide the most value to its customers.
MegaConference is now available in the market with four levels of
service offerings. Details of the service can be found at www.megaconference.net
About Polycom
Polycom is the global leader in standards-based unified communications
(UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice powered by the Polycom(R)
RealPresence(R) Platform. The RealPresence Platform interoperates with the
broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices. More
than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face
to face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with
colleagues, partners, customers, specialists, and prospects. Polycom, together
with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best TCO,
scalability, and security for video collaboration, whether on-premises, hosted,
or cloud delivered. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with Polycom on Twitter,
Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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