Polycom CEO Introduces RealPresence Mobile at CTIA

This week at CTIA (News - Alert), Polycom Inc. debuted Polycom RealPresence Mobile, a solution that brings HD video to a trio of tablets and allows those tablets to videoconference with each other as well as with Polycom (News - Alert) videoconferencing systems.

Today during a show keynote in San Diego, the company’s CEO Andy Miller discussed and demonstrated the solution, which is available initially on Apple’s (News - Alert) iPad 2, the Motorola XOOM and the Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1. The app is now available for download from the Apple App Store and the Android Market.

Miller noted that the five drivers of the visual mobile society are mobile device proliferation, network readiness, cloud delivery, social connectedness and a new generation raised on video. He added there are 64 million tablets out there today. By 2015, 320 million tablets are expected to be in use, 90 percent of which will be video enabled.

Polycom, he said, wants to make it possible for millions of people to use video communications easily, reliability and securely. And it aims to do so through solutions that are application-, carrier- and device-agnostic. The Polycom RealPresence Platform makes that possible, he says, explaining that it offers IM/presence, call control, web conferencing, video collaboration, mobility and social functionality in a single software solution.

He added that Polycom is an important player in the video, and mobile video, space. The company generated 2010 revenue of $1.2 billion and has more than 20 years experience in conferencing, having started with conference calling, then expanded into videoconferencing, telepresence, and now software-based mobile video.

One of Polycom’s initiatives, he said, is the Open Visual Communications Consortium, an industry group Polycom founded that includes 14 of the world’s largest service providers. The aim of the OVCC is to support interoperable visual communications regardless of service provider or network or end user platform.