BroadSoft and Polycom team for hosted UC and video

The great debate over hosted vs. non hosted VoIP services continues, this time with a VoIP application software company teaming with an established hardware vendor to launch a hosted service. Broadsoft and Polycom are working together to bring an integrated Unified Communications (UC) platform to their customers.

The companies call their new offering V2Connect and the hosted solution offers Polycom's Open Collaboration Network and Broadsoft's Broadworks VoIP application platform. Together the combined offering gives service providers a unified voice and video solution in a hosted service. "The hosted unified communications market is rapidly growing as part of the new era of communications. Integrated IP-based voice and video are an important part of any UC network, and it's crucial for vendors to offer a fully interoperable solution," said Brent Kelley a senior analyst at Wainhouse Research in the release.

The service brings voice and video together into one service where they once would have operated independently. The companies are also introducing a go-to-market program allowing Value Added Resellers and Systems Integrators to host and manage V2Connect on behalf of an enterprise.

For more:
- read the release [1]

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