LightEdge Solutions Achieves Gold Level Status as a Polycom Choice Partner

 LightEdge broadens its expertise in implementing unified communications solutions within today's complex customer environments DES MOINES, IA - July  10, 2012 - LightEdge Solutions, an industry leading cloud IT services provider, today announced it has been named by Polycom, Inc., the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications, as a Gold Level Polycom Choice Partner. Now organizations seeking to implement world-class UC platforms can turn to LightEdge for customized solutions that address their immediate and future business needs.

Customers can be confident that, in alliance with Polycom, LightEdge has the expertise to handle all their UC project needs, from concept to installation through ongoing support and management.  Polycom provides open, standards-based UC solutions for telepresence, video, and voice powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform. Polycom® RealPresence® video solutions interoperate with the broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices.

"LightEdge has used and continues to use Polycom to meet the increasingly complex voice and video needs of clients," said Mike McHenry, vice president of engineering for LightEdge Solutions.  "As Voice-over-IP research continues to be adopted in the business sector, we feel that our relationship with Polycom will keep LightEdge ahead of the curve, both in terms of the voice and video technology however also the technical training our teams will require to ensure our clients the best communication experience."

Winner of CRN Magazine's 5-Star Partner Program Award, Polycom's Choice Partner Program emphasizes skills development, specialization, and other value added activities that help partners support the needs of their clients and improve the customer experience.   About Polycom Polycom is the global leader in open standards-based unified communications solutions for telepresence, video , and voice powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform. The RealPresence Platform interoperates with the broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices. More than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, clients, specialists, and prospects.  Polycom, at the same time with its broad partner ecosystem, provides clients with the best total cost of ownership, interoperability, scalability, and security for video collaboration, whether on-premises, hosted, or cloud-delivered. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with Polycom on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Customer-centric cloud computing

About LightEdge Solutions LightEdge Solutions is a customer-centric cloud computing and consulting company devoted to solving the IT issues of businesses nationwide. By utilizing our economies of scale, connections with world-class vendors and our own internal passion for engineering, LightEdge allows its clients to "plug in" to enterprise-grade IT solutions that maximize uptime and performance, but fit into their budget. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com. ###