Meet Poly: Plantronics + Polycom Relaunches to Focus on Driving The Power Of Many

SINGAPORE�- Media OutReach - March 18, 2019 – Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) (“Poly”),
today announced that the company will transform into Poly, a technology company
focused on the human experience of communications and collaboration, aiming to
make communication as rich and natural as in-person.

Poly, which means
“many”, leverages the legendary audio and video expertise of Plantronics and Polycom
and its breadth of smart endpoints that connect across and between unified
communications platforms to reduce the distractions, complexity, and distance
in the modern workspace. Poly aims to be the solution of choice whenever and
wherever collaboration clouds reach people. 

“Today feels like my first day as CEO of a new company,”
said Joe Burton, president and chief executive officer, Poly. “We see limitless
opportunity for how people communicate and collaborate today. With advancements
in AI, machine learning and new technologies, we see a future where Poly makes
the connection, then quietly steps out of the way to become the one thing you don’t notice in the meeting.”  

Poly will focus on four distinct areas of innovation:

• Making workspaces intuitively work for everyone.
  The modern open office has introduced distraction and noise into the work
  place, leading to lower productivity and employee satisfaction. Poly offers
  solutions today to address audible distraction in open spaces as well as
  technologies that make huddle rooms as powerful as traditional board rooms.
• Helping people collaborate, their way. People are
  now using three or more collaboration solutions in a given day and need
  endpoints that work with and across those solutions. Poly offers a wide range
  of solutions to meet this growing need.
• Designing solutions that are mobile-first for
  the modern workforce. Whether it is using a personal smart phone as a “business
  phone” or navigating through a day where personal and business blend, workers
  need voice and video capabilities that move with them. Poly’s recently
  announced Elara 60 recognizes this is the new normal and joins Poly’s
  award-winning mobile headsets to give people high quality tools to be
  productive from anywhere. 
• Advancing cloud services that help IT pros and
  users get more out of their devices. As the macro trend of end user empowerment
  continues, IT pros are more challenged to know what is being used, and where. Poly
  is focused on making easy-to-use solutions also easy to manage.

The Poly logo honors the company’s new path forward as well
as its legacy: Its lava red color and angle of letters form a propeller to
reflect Plantronics’ 60-year aviation lineage while its three legs are inspired
by the design of Polycom’s iconic conference phone.   

“Our new brand represents the many elements of our history that
we bring together to enable people to work the way we all work now, which is
anywhere and across multiple collaboration tools,” said Amy Barzdukas, executive
vice president and chief marketing officer, Poly. “No other company has as many
communications devices and services that we offer across any platform of
choice, and the true power will be in how we bring them together so people can
do more.”

New Solutions, Demonstrated
Hands-On

Starting today at Enterprise Connect 2019, Poly is unveiling
new products and services to realize the company vision. Visitors to the Poly
booth (#713) will have a chance to meet with executives to learn more about the
new company and its latest offerings, which include: 

• Polycom
  Studio, an easy-to-use video USB bar that upgrades huddle rooms to business
  class and works with services like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype for Business,
  Google Meet, Cisco Webex, or Amazon Chime.
• Plantronics
  Elara 60 Series, the
  mobile phone station designed for the increasingly mobile-first worker and
  provides users with a one-touch Microsoft Teams experience.
• Eagle Eye Cube, a video conference camera with
  4k sensors for crystal clear image quality as well as rich sound to upgrade
  meetings in small to mid-sized rooms. Eagle Eye Cube is designed to work with
  many existing solutions including Polycom Trio with VisualPro and Group Series.
• Blackwire 7225, an intuitive UC headset designed
  for concentration in open offices with a sleek, boomless design. Blackwire
  7225’s active noise cancellation allows for focus so people can work, listen to
  music and sound professional on calls from a PC or Mac.
• The Plantronics Status Indicator, a wired
  presence indicator that sits on your desktop and connects with whatever
  communications platform you’re using to let others know if you are available,
  on a call or away from your desk. Visual and audio alerts sound for messages
  and calls.
• Plantronics headsets and Polycom phones provide end users ‘better together’ functionality, allowing basic and advanced headset features to be easily changed directly from the desk phone touch screen interface, without the need for a connected PC.
• The latest version of Plantronics Manager Pro,
  v3.13, gives IT pros the confidence of knowing what devices they have, what’s
  working, and what’s not — and what to do about it.
• Polycom Device Management Service for
  Enterprises, which now
  supports and manages Polycom Studio as well as added API functions for better
  control and management of large deployments.

Poly encourages partners and
customers to share what they want to see in their communications technology both
at Enterprise Connect and on Poly’s social channels: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

For more information on Poly and
its technology, visit: www.poly.com

About Poly

Poly is a global communications company that powers
meaningful human connection and collaboration. Poly combines legendary audio
expertise and powerful video and conferencing capabilities to overcome the
distractions, complexity and distance that make communication in and out of the
workplace challenging. Poly believes in solutions that make life easier when
they work together and with our
partner’s services. Our headsets, software, desk phones, audio and video
conferencing, analytics and services are used worldwide and are a leading
choice for every kind of workspace. For more information, please visit: www.poly.com.

Poly and the propeller design are trademarks of
Plantronics, Inc.  All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.