First video Communications Launches Two New Innovative Products from their Headquarters at Dubai Internet City

Dubai, UAE, June 29, 2004 - First Video Communications (FVC), the region's leading provider of rich media communications announced yesterday the Middle East launch of two new breakthrough products - Polycom V500 and Polycom VSX 3000 that are bright additions to long-distance conferencing technology.   Polycom V500 is a class-defining video calling system that brings the productivity and accelerated decision-making benefits of enterprise video communications to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and telecommuters. Polycom VSX 3000 is the world's first and only personal video conferencing system that delivers the highest levels of video and voice quality in a fully-integrated desktop system, which doubles as a PC display.   According to Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, CEO of Dubai Internet City, where FVC is headquartered, regional businesses of all sizes are increasingly adopting video solutions to increase productivity. "We congratulate FVC for constantly pushing the envelope and introducing innovative solutions to regional companies that need to communicate in real-time with other branch or international offices as well as colleagues.  With Dubai as the hub for regional businesses, it is a welcome link."  

Mr. K. S. Parag, Regional Director of FVC reveals: "FVC is committed to enabling all businesses of all sizes, whether remote or at work, to effortlessly and instantly work together with fellow employees, partners, and customers, allowing for more streamlined processes and improved cost-efficiency which will ultimately generate increased revenues for our customers."

Polycom MENA Manager, Mr. Alain Civel commented: "We are excited to work with FVC in the Middle East towards leveraging the market in deploying Polycom's complete solutions. Customers will benefit from Polycom's unique technologies that ensure Videoconferencing calls are as easy to set up as telephone calls and quality is optimized."

Video conferencing allows increased effectiveness in improving communication raising productivity, diminishing travel costs - particularly in the Middle East where many professionals constantly travel throughout the region to meet with prospective clients and visit branch offices - and quicker time to market.

The Polycom V500 provides the users with a simple and affordable video calling solution that allows them to easily talk face to face anytime. The moderate price and practical system can help expand the use of video beyond the boardrooms and conference rooms of large companies, into smaller businesses - perfect for remote workers and smaller offices within an enterprise. The powerful system offers many advanced technologies normally associated only with high-end group conferencing systems. This system, which simply plugs into your television, is ideal for small businesses, executives and telecommuters, remote offices, doctors' offices and teachers.

With its completely integrated camera, microphone, speakers and 17-inch LCD display that can be used as a PC monitor, the Polycom VSX 3000 delivers TV-like video and near-CD quality audio in a sleek, compact system. This all-in-one system is ideally suited for desktops, executive offices, remote offices, doctors' offices or educational resource rooms, extending the conference room to the personal office environment.

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About FVC ME:
Based in DIC, FVC is focused on providing rich media communications solutions to organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. Its solutions include: video, web and audio conferencing, video streaming and video on demand. FVC.COM ME provides solutions based on industry leading brands such as First Virtual Communications, Polycom, Teleportec, VBrick, Envivio and Packeteer. These products and solutions are distributed in the region through appointed, focused channel partners in each local region. For further information, please visit www.fvcme.com.

About Polycom:
Polycom, Inc. is the world's technology leader of high-quality, easy-to-use video, voice, data and web conferencing and collaboration solutions.  The Polycom Office is our continued commitment to make distance communications as natural and interactive as being there by providing best-in-class conferencing solutions that are interoperable, integrated and intuitive to the user. The Polycom Office is based on industry standards and supported by an open architecture that promotes interoperability in multi-vendor environments and complements leading network infrastructure platforms. For further information, please visit www.polycom.com.    

FVC Contact:                                                                         Press Contact:
K.S. Parag                                                                             Kelly Home / Nivine William
Regional Director                                                                    Gambate! Communications
Tel:  + 971 4 390 0680                                                            Tel: +971 4 391 6424
email:  parag@fvcme.com                                                        Email: Kelly@gambate.biz
                                                                                          nivine@gambate.biz

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