Dubai, UAE; 25 February 2015: FVC, a leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East & Africa (MEA), has been recognized with the Polycom APAC Excellence in Innovation 2014 – SAARC Award for its project with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Pakistan’s largest ICT services provider, to set up an exclusive video conferencing service, ‘PTCL Smart Video’, for its corporate customers. The award was presented during a special awards ceremony where Polycomrecognised partner companies that excel at incorporating value-added solutions and services which create lasting value for customers. Award nominations were reviewed by a panel of Polycom executives from around the world to select 2014 Polycom Circle of Excellence honourees.
K.S. Parag, Managing Director at FVC, Polycom’s authorized distributor in Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan, said, “We are honoured by this award and share this with the team at PTCL for letting us share the opportunity to become part of a project that set a new trend in unified communications in Pakistan.”
PTCL Smart Video, the new videoconferencing and content collaboration service, is powered by Polycom RealPresence One. Hosted at PTCL’s state-of-the-art data center, the service allows business users to connect with peers nationwide and around-the-world on any standard or legacy video conferencing platforms.
FVC is part of the Polycom Partner Network. The nearly 7,000 members embrace and extend Polycom’s open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive voice, video and content collaboration solutions for the enterprise, as well as applications to support a growing number of use cases across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment and across business functions such as human resources, facilities, engineering and sales. As part of the Polycom Partner Network, technology providers, ISVs, solution advisors, integrators, service providers, and other companies can work with Polycom and each other to deliver tailored solutions for the multi-faceted needs of today’s organizations.
