Digital Rapids Joins Polycom Arena Programme

A provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences, have announced that they have signed an agreement to join the Polycom Arena partner programme.
Digital Rapids will join Polycom, a global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions to allow software application providers, hardware device manufacturers, and conferencing solution providers to integrate their products with the industry leading unified collaboration platform to create new applications.
The integration of Digital Rapids encoding and streaming solutions with the Polycom unified collaboration platform allows enterprises to extend the reach of their video beyond videoconferencing to additional viewing devices from Internet-connected PCs to mobile phones. Supporting both live streaming and recording for on-demand distribution, Digital Rapids’ flexible solutions seamlessly enable multi-platform distribution with simultaneous encoding to multiple output resolutions, bit rates and formats. Video from Polycom video conferencing endpoints and other sources can be encoded for streaming within or outside an organisation, while integration with the Polycom Video Media Center (VMC) provides enterprise users with content management, publishing, tracking and viewer access control.
Wesley Thiessen, Product Manager at Digital Rapids commented: "Enterprises and institutions in the corporate, government and educational markets are investing in solutions that improve productivity, accelerate decision making and lower costs. Through our involvement in the Polycom Arena programme, we are delivering integrated solutions that support these initiatives by enhancing video communications and streamlining video operations."
Mark Roberts, Vice President, Polycom Arena programme concluded: "We are pleased to welcome Digital Rapids into the Polycom Arena programme and look forward to working them to deliver this important solution to customers."
(BMcN)