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Polycom Inc., a telepresence solutions provider, today expanded its portfolio with the Polycom Open Telepresence Experience (OTX) 300, the company said in a press release on its Web site.

OTX 300 is an 'immersive telepresence solution' that delivers true-to-life collaboration, including full 1080p video, at up to half the bandwidth of comparable systems - and offers the lowest total cost of ownership, Polycom said in its statement on its Web site.

The product helps customers "address the increasingly critical challenge of collaborating across multiple locations," said Andrew Miller, president and CEO, Polycom. They can "save millions of dollars a year" by improving productivity and reducing the need to travel, Miller said in the statement.

"Polycom is helping to transform the way we operate, enabling our customers and employees to collaborate more effectively across distances and time zones," said Simon Hunt, global product director of video communications at Regus, a provider of business center services, operating at over 1,000 locations across 450 cities in 75 countries.

"As use of visual communications continues to increase, customers are looking for solutions that natively integrate with their core network and communications environments so they can derive more return from their technology investments," said Yancey Smith, director of product management, Communications Server for Microsoft. "Today, Polycom's integration for Microsoft environments is a great example, providing broad interoperability with Microsoft Office Communicator desktop video clients and dramatically simplifying the use of video by automating the scheduling and joining of video calls through Microsoft Outlook and the sharing of content through Microsoft SharePoint."