The backstory…

We recently had a Polycom installed in a conference room at work along with a large flat screen TV.  The first official use of the equipment took place today and it went smoothly.

Later in the day…

I was browsing through the Android Market this afternoon when I happened across the Polycom Video App.   I thought, “nah, this can’t be free and actually connect to the physical Polycom unit.”

I grabbed my Xoom and walked down the hallway, turned on the equipment, punched in the unit’s IP address and heard ringing.

The Polycom displayed an incoming call.  I grabbed the remote and accepted it.  I was stunned that it was all working.  My coworker took my Xoom down the hall to someone’s office and we had an impromptu video conference testing it out.

The test wasn’t under the best circumstances.  I wasn’t sure if I was still logged into the wireless network or if it was going out 4G and then coming back into the work network from the Internet.

The video was a little jerky.  The audio cut out a bit from time to time, but it worked fairly well.  I plan to test this out a little more thoroughly in the weeks to come.  We’ll probably use it next week to train the users on the teleconference equipment.

I do look forward to showing off my Xoom to the users I support!