Case Study: AOL achieves one-click, anytime-anywhere video collaboration (2.4M minutes/month) with Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS

At AOL, Collaboration is a Family Affair

AOL, a $2.3 billion digital-media company with 5,000 employees and global brands like The Huffington Post and TechCrunch, needed a way for distributed teams to collaborate spontaneously. Previously reliant on room-based videoconferencing that required advance scheduling, AOL wanted anytime, anywhere communication to keep creative work and decision-making fluid.

AOL deployed Polycom’s RealPresence CloudAXIS, RealPresence Mobile and Collaboration Servers to provide one‑click, multi-party video, audio and content sharing across desktops and mobile devices. The solution eliminated scheduling bottlenecks, enabled ad‑hoc brainstorming, and scaled rapidly—AOL now averages 2.4 million minutes of video collaboration a month and has made Polycom tools one of its top three mission‑critical capabilities.

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Jimmy appleby

Network engineer