Why is Polycom offering Siren 14 technology royalty-free?
Polycom, as the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions including video conferencing and high-end teleconferencing equipment, seeks to expand our market by making telecommunications more effective, natural, and valuable. By offering Siren 14 on royalty-free terms, we hope to encourage the widespread implementation and use of super-wideband quality audio that is standards-based and interoperable across all vendors, so that our customers will enjoy the ultimate in clear, natural-sounding audio. Polycom is proud of our leadership positions in media coding technology and standardization, and by making Siren 14 available royalty-free we have an opportunity to demonstrate our superior technology and industry leadership to the widest possible audience. Finally, we do require that licensees give Polycom credit for our Siren™14 technology in their documentation, some marketing materials, and (where appropriate) their user interface (please see the license for
