Microsoft Roundtable transitions to Polycom

Published 31 March 09 02:44 PM | Ewan 

Microsoft & Polycom announced yesterday that the Microsoft Roundtable conferencing device (used with Live Meeting or OCS 2007 to present a 360° view of the room to participants joining from elsewhere), will be replaced.

Polycom are taking over the manufacturing and distribution of Roundtable and renaming it to the somewhat-less-natty “CX5000 Unified Conference Station”.

In many ways, this is good news since it fits within Polycom’s core strength rather than being something of an adjunct product (which is there to support something else, which is pretty much how the Roundtable fitted into the Microsoft world), and it should be available from a lot more places than before.

If you haven’t seen the Roundtable/CX5000 before, check out Forrester Research’s Erica Driver, on her own blog, comparing the experience of using Roundtable to An IMAX Movie after listening to FM radio.

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# Eileen Brown's WebLog said on March 31, 2009 10:03 AM:

I didn’t know just how simple and easy this was.  I was chatting to Jane who is onsite at a customer

# Quikboy said on April 1, 2009 2:40 AM:

I hope Roundtable (or whatever that new ugly name is) still does essentially the same thing, but even more cheaper.

# Dennis said on April 13, 2009 2:12 PM:

I want to know if they will integrate it with other video conferencing systems not just through OCS

# Ewan said on April 14, 2009 2:26 AM:

Well, Dennis, I suppose that's a question for Polycom but I doubt it - thus far, the integration level has been to provide an interface between their existing VC systems and OCS; both Polycom & Tandberg do this already.

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Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.

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