Juniper Networks and Polycom have teamed on a joint telepresence and video conferencing offering that's designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
The deal with Juniper highlights Polycom's partnership strategy. Polycom last week announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens. Polycom also highlighted a telepresence demo with IBM at CES 2010. The aim for Polycom: Forge partnerships that allow it to surround Cisco and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.
The specifics of the Juniper-Polycom partnership go like this:
According to the companies the joint bundle for network service providers includes Juniper's Junos Space applications platform, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and SRX Series Services Gateways as well as Polycom's telepresence systems and Distributed Media Application that centralizes call control.
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