Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform
The Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform is the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration, powering Polycom's market-leading HD telepresence and video solutions.
- Bring people face-to-face from anywhere over telepresence with highly scalable, reliable, secure, and redundant infrastructure that helps to ensure business continuity.
- Create a seamless UC environment that drives adoption through ease-of-use within normal business workflows (IM’ing, calendaring, and e-mailing, for example).
- Ensure interoperation with hundreds of unified communications and business applications through the unique open-standards approach of the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which supports large-scale premises, hosted and cloud delivery of video as a service.
- Protect investments through forward and backward compatibility with existing and future systems. Drive down TCO and accelerate ROI through Polycom's unique ability to use as much as 50% less network bandwidth while providing 3.5 times greater resource capacity than alternatives.
Platform Functions: Five Ways to Improve Collaboration

The Polycom RealPresence Platform fits in the UC "stack" between the foundation layer of core network and security infrastructure and the services, applications, and device/endpoint layers above it, enabling the various software elements, which are typically from a range of different vendors, to interoperate seamlessly.
Universal Video Collaboration
Software for multi-point video, voice, and content collaboration. Connects multiple protocols, enabling people and content to connect at the highest quality for the lowest cost.
Video Resource Management
Software to centrally deliver, manage, and monitor video collaboration across an organization
Virtualization Management
Software that manages and distributes calls across your video network with carrier-grade redundancy, resiliency, and scalability. Supports up to 25,000 concurrent sessions and 75,000 device registrations on up to 64 video servers.
Universal Access and Security
Software that easily and securely lets thousands of people collaborate via video across any combination of environments–on the road, at home, at work, in conference rooms, or in immersive theaters–and device–smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and office and room systems.
Video Content Management
Software that speeds up knowledge sharing and overcomes the challenges of distance and time by capturing, managing and delivering video content―from anywhere to anywhere