Form 10-K

10-K 1 d265454d10k.htm FORM 10-K Form 10-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

x	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 December 31, 2011

¨	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number 000-27978

POLYCOM, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware		94-3128324
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

4750 Willow Road, Pleasanton, California		94588
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

(925) 924-6000

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $0.0005 per share

The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

(NASDAQ Global Select Market)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):


Large accelerated filer x		Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer ¨		Smaller reporting company ¨
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 in Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No x

As of June 30, 2011, the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant, based on the closing sale price of such shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on June 30, 2011, was approximately $5,663,160,772. Shares of common stock held by each executive officer and director have been excluded in that such persons may under certain circumstances be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of executive officer or affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

177,466,372 shares of the Registrant’s common stock were outstanding as of February 10, 2012.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.

Portions of the Registrant’s Proxy Statement for the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Such Proxy Statement will be filed within 120 days of the fiscal year covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Table of Contents


PART I
Item 1.	Business	3
	General	3
	Products and Services	6
	Sales and Distribution	11
	Acquisitions and Investments in Privately Held Companies	12
	Competition	13
	Research and Product Development	14
	Customer Service and Support	15
	Manufacturing	16
	Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights	16
	Employees	17
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	17
Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	38
Item 2.	Properties	38
Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	39
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	39

PART II

Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	40
Item 6.	Selected Financial Data	42
Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	43
Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	68
Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	69
Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	69
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	69
Item 9B.	Other Information	70

PART III

Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	71
Item 11.	Executive Compensation	73
Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	73
Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	73
Item 14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	73

PART IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	74

	Signatures	75

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the statements under the sections entitled “Business,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and “Risk Factors,” and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in the documents incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, constitute forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “believe,” “could,” “anticipate,” “would,” “might,” “plan,” “expect,” “will,” “intend,” “potential,” “objective,” “strategy,” “goal,” “should,” “vision,” “designed,” and similar expressions or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. The forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and situations, including those disclosed in “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, that may cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity or performance expressed or implied by these statements.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason.

PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

GENERAL

We are a global leader in standards-based unified communications (“UC”) solutions and a leading provider of telepresence, video, voice and infrastructure solutions based on open standards. With Polycom^® RealPresence™ video and voice solutions, from infrastructure to endpoints, people all over the world can collaborate face-to-face without being in the same physical location. Individuals and teams can connect, solve, decide, and create through a high-definition visual experience from their desktops, meeting rooms, classrooms, mobile devices, web browsers, and specialized solutions such as video carts for bedside conferences in hospitals between patients and remote physicians. By removing the barriers of distance and time, connecting experts to where they are needed most, and creating greater trust and understanding through visual connection, Polycom enables people to make better decisions faster and to increase their productivity while saving time and money and being environmentally responsible.

We sell our solutions globally through a high-touch sales model that leverages our broad network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, leading communications services providers, and retailers. We manufacture our products through an outsourced model optimized for quality, reliability and fulfillment agility.

Our vision is to make video collaboration ubiquitous. Toward this end, our strategy is to make video and voice collaboration simple to use and available to everyone through open, standards-based software—delivered on-premises or from the cloud—that connects people securely across any network, protocol, application or device they want to use. Historically, our focus has been premises-based solutions for the enterprise and public sector, targeted at vertical markets including finance, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare, and this continues to be a high-growth market opportunity for us as recognition of the mission-critical business benefits of video collaboration in the enterprise continues to grow. In addition, in response to emerging market trends, and the network effect driven by business-to-business adoption of UC, we are extending our focus designed to capture opportunities within emerging markets including mobile, social and cloud-based delivery for enterprise and small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Important drivers for the adoption of Polycom’s UC solutions include:

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growth of video as a preferred method of communication everywhere, including major growth markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China,

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increasing presence of video on the desktop,

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growth of video-capable mobile devices (including tablets and smartphones),

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expansion of social business tools with integrated web-based video collaboration,

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virtualization and the move to the cloud,

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adoption of UC by SMBs,

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growth of the number of teleworkers globally,

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emergence of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs in businesses of all sizes,

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demand for UC solutions for business-to-business communications and the move of consumer applications into the business space, and

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continued commitment by organizations and individuals to reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by choosing remote connectivity over travel.

Visual communication provides natural and effective collaboration experiences among individuals and teams separated by distance. With the increasing availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, migration to Internet Protocol (“IP”) communications, and advances in video technologies that include high definition (“HD”) and immersive telepresence, many enterprises, educational institutions, medical facilities, and government organizations are seeking systems that enable real-time and on-demand video collaboration. Increasingly pervasive trends such as globalization of the enterprise, distributed and remote workforces, outsourcing, rising travel costs, and sustainability requirements are driving organizations to implement tools that enable better decision-making, faster time-to-market, and greater returns on investment from their employees’ time.

Our 2012 strategic plan is designed to capture the emerging network effect of UC adoption by enterprise, public sector, service providers, SMBs, mobile and remote employees, and social business users. We believe we are uniquely positioned as the UC ecosystem partner of choice through our strategic partnerships, support of open standards, innovative technology and customer-centric go-to-market capabilities. Central to our 2012 strategic plan are five strategic imperatives:

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Cloud-Based UC Solutions;

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Mobile UC Solutions;

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Focused Ecosystem Partnerships;

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RealPresence Platform (an expansion of our former UC Intelligent Core™ Platform); and

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Growth Markets.

Cloud-Based UC Solutions

Our first strategic imperative is enabling cloud-based UC solutions. Polycom’s cloud strategy is to partner with qualified service providers and channel partners to deliver Video-as-a-Service (“VaaS”) offerings to enterprises and SMBs. As part of our cloud strategy, we announced Polycom RealPresence Cloud in January 2012—a wholesale VaaS offering for qualified service providers and channel partners. RealPresence Cloud is powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform and leverages the Polycom RealPresence Network (formerly the Halo/HVEN network, acquired from Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) in 2011) to allow service providers to fast-track their capability to deliver video from the cloud. In addition, we are a founding member of the Open Visual Communications Consortium^TM (“OVCC^TM”), an open business-to-business exchange consortium that leverages a global consortium of network and managed service providers to deliver broad and robust connectivity

services for unified communications. This will include integrated directory services and presence capability for enterprises, SMBs, and consumers alike. Our solution is built with an open-standards approach to assure broad interoperability, enabling standards-based devices to facilitate HD video and voice UC meetings in point-to-point or multipoint settings.

Mobile UC Solutions

Our second strategic imperative is delivering Mobile UC solutions. Our objective is to deliver enterprise-grade video collaboration and content sharing on a wide variety of mobile devices leveraging our leadership in premises-based video and voice communications. In October 2011, Polycom took video mobile, delivering enterprise-grade video collaboration to mobile users. Polycom RealPresence Mobile, a new, free-to-download software solution, extends Polycom’s HD video collaboration technology, built on the Polycom RealPresence Platform, beyond the office and conference room to Apple^® iPad^® 2, Motorola Droid Xyboard and Samsung Galaxy Tab™ tablets. This should drive a significant network effect for users and businesses by enabling mobile devices to connect with each other as well as other standards-based telepresence and video systems and applications. We expect our UC mobility solutions to be deployed on a broad range of networks including 3G, 4G, WiFi, and DECT for both wide area anywhere/anytime video collaboration. In addition, we have a broad portfolio of Wi-Fi and DECT wireless voice solutions that address the demand for on-premises mobility from small businesses to enterprises and in vertical market segments such as healthcare, large retail, manufacturing, and high-end hospitality.

Focused Ecosystem Partnerships

Our third strategic imperative is leveraging our focused ecosystem partners. The Polycom^® Open Collaboration Network™ is a powerful ecosystem of technology leaders, with whom we are working together to develop tailored, flexible, and future-ready solutions. Our open-standards integration with the leading UC and networking platform vendors makes it possible for customers to use our solutions along with their existing business applications to communicate in real time over multiple devices and across most networks.

Although we will continue to work closely with all or Polycom Open Collaboration Network partners, in 2012 we intend to focus our strategic investments, including sales and program resources, on extending our relationships with Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”), HP and Apple Inc. In 2011, we continued to build our strategic relationships with these key partners. We offer more than 40 solutions that are interoperable with Microsoft Lync, moving us toward our goal of delivering video potentially to hundreds of millions of Microsoft desktops. In July, Polycom was recognized as the 2011 UC Innovations Partner of the Year at the Microsoft Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Our strategic alliance with HP continues to develop as Polycom acquired HP’s Visual Collaboration business. Further, Polycom is an exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain UC solutions for resale and internal deployments at HP. The IBM alliance has expanded to include not only our solution integration with IBM Sametime and social business applications, but to also encompass our work with IBM Global Technology Services. Our alliances and integration with the larger UC ecosystem are critical to providing customers the flexibility, innovation, and investment protection they require.

As part of our UC Cloud and UC Mobility strategies, we also expect to work more closely with service providers such as AT&T Inc., BT Group plc, China Unicom Limited, Telstra Corporation Limited and Verizon Communications Inc. to deploy new unified communications services that enable consumers and enterprises to participate in both point-to-point and multi-point telepresence conversations over their service provider’s network. These solutions will include integrated feature-rich mobile clients, standards-based architecture, and the Polycom RealPresence Platform. We believe this solution set and open-standards approach will operate effectively with service provider networks to enable cloud-based UC delivery to enterprises and SMBs, whereas most other offerings have limited interoperability and only point-to-point capabilities.

RealPresence Platform

Our fourth strategic imperative is the delivery and proliferation of the Polycom RealPresence Platform. Polycom introduced the RealPresence Platform, a comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration, powering Polycom’s HD telepresence and video solutions, in September 2011. Through its open-standards approach, the platform ensures interoperability with hundreds of unified communications and social networking applications; interoperates with core networking and security infrastructure to deliver secure collaboration across heterogeneous networks with up to 50% less bandwidth consumption than other solutions; and provides security, reliability, management, and scalability to support video as a cloud-based service to enterprises, SMBs and consumers. The functional modules of the RealPresence Platform include: Universal Video Collaboration, Video Resource Management, Virtualization Management, Universal Access and Security and Video Content Management. Key to Polycom’s software platform strategy is integration with partner products in the areas of instant messaging/presence, call control, web conferencing, video collaboration, mobile, social media, networking, and security.

Growth Markets

Our fifth and final strategic imperative is to execute on the Growth Market opportunity. For Polycom, this opportunity specifically refers to the fast-growth geographies of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) nations, the Middle-East, rest of Central America/Latin America and Africa and CIS countries. In 2011, these fast-growth geographies represented approximately 23% of our revenues and grew approximately 53% over 2010. Leveraging this growth, we believe that these markets represent significant growth opportunities for Polycom, and we are making significant investments in go-to-market and research and development resources to maximize our share of these important markets in 2012 and beyond.

Available Information

We were incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. Our headquarters is located at 4750 Willow Road, Pleasanton, California, 94588. Our telephone number at this location is (925) 924-6000 and our web address is www.polycom.com. Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to such reports are available, free of charge, on our website under “Company > Investor Relations > SEC Filings,” as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed electronically with, or furnished to, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Information on the website does not constitute a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The SEC also maintains a website (www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding Polycom and our business that we file electronically with the SEC.

Polycom and the Polycom logo are registered trademarks of Polycom, Inc. This Annual Report on Form 10-K also includes other trade names, trademarks, and service marks of ours and of other companies.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Our UC solutions encompass Polycom RealPresence video and voice solutions ranging from immersive telepresence to room to desktop video to mobile devices, and span voice, video, content management, and sharing solutions, including the infrastructure that powers them.

Our products and solutions are categorized as follows:

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Network Infrastructure, which includes the conferencing infrastructure, distributed media application, management applications, recording and streaming security, and remote access that constitute the Polycom RealPresence Platform. Inclusive of the related services components, Network Infrastructure revenues comprised 17% of our total revenues in 2011.

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UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. Inclusive of the related services components, UC Group Systems revenues comprised 65% of our total revenues in 2011.

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UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices, desktop voice, and wireless LAN (local area network) products. Inclusive of the related services components, UC Personal Devices revenues comprised 18% of our total revenues in 2011.

Network Infrastructure

The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration, powering Polycom’s HD telepresence and video solutions. Using the RealPresence Platform, organizations bring people face-to-face from anywhere and create seamless UC environments and collaboration experiences that incorporate instant messaging, calendaring, e-mailing, and content sharing. In addition, the open standards-based RealPresence Platform helps ensure the interoperability of hundreds of business applications and helps protect customer investments through compatibility with existing and future systems. The Polycom components that make up the RealPresence Platform include:

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Polycom RMX. The RMX series of products provide universal video collaboration, or bridging. Universal video collaboration is software that enables multipoint video, voice, and content collaboration.

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Centralized Management Application (CMA). The CMA product provides video resource management, or provisioning. Video resource management is software to centrally manage, monitor, and deliver video collaboration across an organization. Video resource management manages the endpoints used to enable collaboration in the UC environment. In addition, Polycom’s desktop (CMAD) and mobile video collaboration (RealPresence Mobile) software registers to the CMA server to deliver full-featured face-to-face video communication across multiple environments and operating systems.

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Distributed Management Application (DMA). The DMA product is a network-based virtualization application for managing and distributing calls across collaboration networks. With no single point of failure, DMA provides reliability and super-cluster configurations for mission critical communications. The DMA also provides a single unified dialing plan for video and voice applications across multiple vendors. Virtualization management includes software for massive scale, redundancy, and resiliency. This software supports up to 25,000 concurrent calls and 75,000 devices and provides advanced routing algorithms to maximize resource utilization and dynamically distribute calls based on prioritizing, bandwidth and class of service, driving lower cost and a higher return on investment. Virtualization solutions manage the conference bridges that connect people and endpoints.

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VBP, or Video Border Proxy, Series. The VBP product enables universal access and security. Universal access and security is software that easily and securely connects video participants within and outside the firewall, optimizes the network and enables business-to-business and business-to-consumer communication. It works with an organization’s existing firewall to enhance security for out-of-network video transmission.

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Polycom RealPresence Media Manager. The Polycom RealPresence Media Manager is our video content management solution. Video content management is software for secure video capture, management, administration, and delivery. Polycom RealPresence Media Manager includes the Recording and Streaming Server (RSS 4000), the Polycom RealPresence Capture Station, and the Polycom RealPresence Broadcast Producer.

UC Group Systems

Our UC group systems offer customers a unified, end-to-end communication capability that enables geographically dispersed individuals to communicate as naturally as if they were in the same room. Through our UC solutions, people can connect and collaborate with one another whether they are in a board room, meeting room, classroom, at their desk, while mobile, or through web-based social business applications.

The Polycom^® RealPresenceExperience (“RPX™”) room environment, Polycom^® Halo Collaboration Studio™, Polycom Open Telepresence Experience™ (“OTX™”) suite, Polycom^® Architected Telepresence Experience™ (“ATX^™”) solution, and Polycom^® HDX^® personal and room-based telepresence solutions comprise a portfolio of high-performance, cost-effective, and easy-to-use room and immersive telepresence and video conferencing systems. Multiple options exist to incorporate high-resolution data sharing and collaboration into a video conference. The Polycom^® People+Content™ family of peripherals allows users of Polycom HDX, Converged Management Application^TM (“CMA^®”) Desktop and Telepresence m100 products to more easily incorporate content, documents and audiovisual effects into their video conferencing sessions. The user experience for any Polycom HDX series or immersive telepresence customer is enhanced when users choose to deploy intelligent accessories, including the Polycom^® EagleEye Director, which changes the face of group video communications by enabling close-up views of every speaker in a video conference, regardless of their location or the number of people in the room, with automated and ‘directed’ camera pan, tilt and zoom, the Polycom^® UC Board^TM, which seamlessly integrates white boarding into any telepresence meeting, and Polycom^® Touch Control, which eliminates the need for a remote control with a graphical touch interface simplifying content capture and sharing.

Polycom offers a range of UC group devices specifically optimized for the Microsoft Lync environment. The CX3000 IP Conference Phone is the only conference phone on the market that is optimized for Microsoft Lync and features embedded Microsoft Lync software, delivering a familiar user interface and functionality for conference call participants. The Polycom CX5000 Unified Conference Station adds a one-of-a kind 360 degree group video collaboration experience to Microsoft Lync environments. The CX7000 Unified Collaboration System is the only group voice, video, and content collaboration system optimized specifically for Microsoft Lync. Polycom now offers more than 40 Polycom solutions that natively integrate with Microsoft Lync, so Microsoft users can click a name on a Lync contact list and instantly be collaborating face-to-face via Polycom RealPresence video. The Polycom RealPresence Platform enables customers with Microsoft Lync clients, Polycom certified Lync products and/or Polycom endpoints to all connect together in multi-point calls.

Complementing Polycom’s telepresence and desktop video offerings, we provide conference phones that either integrate with our video solutions or can be used independently to conduct high-quality, effective voice conference calls. The product line consists of Polycom^® VoiceStation^® products for smaller rooms, Polycom^® SoundStation^® conference phones for midsize rooms, and Polycom^® SoundStation^® IP products for conference room solutions using Voice-over IP (“VoIP”) telephony networks. Polycom^® SoundStation Duo^TM is an analog/IP hybrid conference phone for mid-size conference rooms for companies of all sizes that is ideal for organizations that are planning the transition to IP and looking to invest today in a future-ready solution.

UC Personal Devices

Our UC personal devices extend clear, HD voice, video, and content to desktops, home offices, mobile users, and branch sites, among other examples.

Our personal telepresence solutions allow organizations to leverage the power of visual communication among an expanded set of users and use cases. The Polycom HDX 4000 Series delivers a premier personal telepresence experience, with HD video, voice, and content-sharing housed in a compact and stylish design. The Polycom Telepresence m100 brings simple, effective, standards-based desktop conferencing to any PC and can be purchased as individual licenses. In addition, as part of our RealPresence Platform and Network Infrastructure product line, the Polycom CMA Desktop client is also a standards-based desktop video conferencing solution, supporting both PCs and MACs, that is centrally deployed via the Polycom CMA resource management solution.

The Polycom^® VVX^® 1500 business media phone combines advanced telephony, one-touch video, and integrated business applications into a life-like experience. This UC device is equipped with all of the capabilities of a full-featured Polycom^® SoundPoint^® IP conference phone, including six lines, Polycom^® HD Voice™ technology, a Gigabit Ethernet switch that supports Power over Ethernet (“PoE”), and a host of rich telephony

functions. These features can be accessed via the buttons on the front of the phone or by simply touching the large color display. We also offer the VVX 500 business media phone, a mid-range business media phone that brings a smartphone-style touch-screen interface to the desktop. The VVX 500 features 12 line appearances, Microsoft Outlook and Calendar integration, web-based provisioning, USB expansion ports and an open application development environment to allow third-party development of interoperable applications.

The Polycom SoundPoint series of standards-based SIP desktop devices provides superior audio quality and rich features to address the desktop communications requirements of businesses. The complete SoundPoint product line is based on a common software architecture to ensure compatibility for all devices with our VoIP solution partners. The VoIP ecosystem includes call management suppliers for on-premises call servers and soft-switches for network-based call server platforms. Through our VoIP Interoperability Partner (“VIP”) program, we have established relationships with approximately 45 technology partners for VoIP call managers to collaborate in the development, marketing, and distribution of Polycom’s VoIP products.

Our wireless products address the demand for on-premises mobility and increased productivity from small businesses to enterprises and in vertical market segments such as healthcare, large retail, manufacturing, and high-end hospitality. We offer three wireless product lines, including the Polycom^® SpectraLink^® Wi-Fi, Polycom SpectraLink Proprietary, and Polycom^® KIRK^® DECT phone offerings. These mobility products are sold through channel partners and are also provided through original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”) partners and specialized system integrators.

In addition, with Microsoft we jointly developed a family of devices that are optimized for use with Microsoft Lync. These natively integrated UC devices deliver rich presence, HD voice, and plug-and-play functionality, and in conjunction with the Lync solution, provide an attractive value proposition for private branch exchange (“PBX”) replacement. Further, a wide range of USB and IP devices deliver the full Microsoft UC experience and are easy to deploy, use, and manage. Our standards-based SIP voice solutions are also now interoperable with Microsoft Lync, providing greater choice and flexibility to customers as they update or transition their call management solutions.

Standards and Interoperability

Polycom has a philosophy and long history of developing standards-based interoperable products. We promote the development and deployment of open standards because we believe this is an effective way to establish broad interoperability in the complex multi-vendor ecosystem of unified communications. This approach not only provides a broad “network effect” of connectivity, but also provides our customers with the flexibility to choose best-in-breed solutions that work together. Our goal is to make video and voice collaboration simple to use and available to everyone through open, standards-based software—delivered on-premises or from the cloud—that connects people securely across any network, protocol, application or device they want to use.

We actively participate in several standards development organizations (including the IEEE, IETF, and the ITU-T) in order to develop new open standards for the industry (such as standards for telepresence, content sharing and high definition audio). We also have joined with both partners and competitors in many industry forums and consortiums that focus on interoperability, including the IMTC (International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium), OVCC (Open Visual Communications Consortium), SIP Forum (Session Initiated Protocol), UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) and the Wi-Fi Alliance. We are founding members or board members of several of these organizations and are active in leading the development of future standards and protocols intended to drive interoperability and standards for the greater good of the industry and our customers.

As a part of this work, our UC innovation development team has developed or is developing underlying standards-based technologies to power our portfolio of UC solutions, including:

Session Initiation Protocol

We have played an active role in standards bodies and the Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) Forum to develop and implement SIP across our UC solutions. We believe our implementation of SIP is robust, secure, and feature-rich.

Scalable Video Coding

Scalable Video Coding (“SVC”) is a standard designed to deliver a high-quality, low-latency telepresence experience at any bandwidth and over networks prone to packet loss and congestion. Customers will receive the advantage of our industry-leading standards-based telepresence products with the additional functionality of SVC, which we expect to drive superior economics for our customers.

Security

We believe that security is of the utmost importance and we are committed to bringing a secure means of real-time collaborative communications both inside and outside enterprise firewalls to customers worldwide. Security has become increasingly important with the emergence of BYOD programs and the need to securely integrate a variety of mobile video devices into the enterprise. Implementing secure communication technologies and validating standards and interoperability is in many cases a mandatory requirement for government customers.

High Profile Telepresence

High Profile enables a dramatic reduction in the network resources necessary to video-enable organizations. It allows lower-cost, standards-based visual communication with fewer resources, thus limiting or avoiding costly network upgrades—all while remaining standards-based. Video deployments can be extended to more sites, more cost effectively, and with greater quality. With the H.264 High Profile implementation for real-time video, customers can immediately begin saving up to 50 percent on bandwidth costs.

The shift from Baseline Profile to High Profile delivers gains in performance across the full bandwidth spectrum. As a result, HD systems benefit the most from High Profile, enabling accelerated adoption of HD communication across organizations. Branch offices, remote sites, rural locations, and developing regions can now enjoy the benefits of HD quality.

Finally, as enterprises, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, manufacturing firms, government agencies, and other organizations look to provide integrated video, voice, and content-sharing applications, they face the challenge of interconnecting various network topologies, network protocols, transmission speeds, and end-point devices. These customers require systems designed to address complex interoperability, multipoint connectivity, and security requirements. In this context, we believe that the service provider market will become increasingly important to us as service providers leverage infrastructure capabilities based on the Polycom RealPresence Platform to provide cloud-based voice and video services to their customers. Polycom network infrastructure products must ensure a consistent level of high-quality service by intelligently matching end-user applications to available network resources. Further, our network infrastructure products must satisfy strategic and channel partners who demand video, voice, and content communications sessions that are highly reliable and easy to establish, manage, archive, and stream.

Services

We offer a comprehensive line of professional and support services to customers on a global basis. These services are offered directly by us and through our worldwide channel partner network.

For the ongoing support of end-user customers, we provide maintenance services that include telephone support, software upgrades and updates, parts exchange, on-site assistance, and direct access to support engineers for real-time troubleshooting. These support services comprise the majority of our services revenue and are driven by both attach rates of maintenance agreements on new product sales, as well as the renewal of existing maintenance agreements. Enhanced Support services are also available that provide faster response times in over 20 cities worldwide for more mission-critical RealPresence Platform deployments. We also offer installation and implementation services and a broad range of training to ensure effective usage and operation of products with training facilities worldwide.

We believe that service and support are critical components of customer satisfaction and create a platform for expanded and long-term customer relationships. Over the past year, we invested in new spare parts depots, and now have warehouses worldwide to provide better service to customers across the globe. We have also invested in an extensive customer relationship management system and knowledge base to expand online support and infrastructure. We also have an online support portal for customers, that includes the ability to open, track, and update service requests online 24x7, request and track Return Material Authorizations (“RMAs”), query bulk contract entitlement status, and view contract and warranty status. The portal also offers a proactive support notification to which customers and partners may subscribe. Support services are flexible and available for every Polycom solution deployed in IP, legacy, or mixed-network environments.

We offer a variety of Professional Services solutions including assessments, implementation services, network consulting services, usage and adoption services, wireless services application integration, and advanced project management services. In response to customer needs for improved communication while reducing costs, we launched Unified Communications Professional Services to help customers plan, design, deploy and integrate our solutions into a Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, or other leading environments.

The Polycom Learning Center (“PLC”) continues to build proficiency in collaboration technology for partner and customer users with communications and network experts who deliver a broad range of programs and courses. Content is delivered in a classroom setting with a remote instructor or through self-paced programs and can be customized to meet the unique needs of the customer or partner.

The Polycom Certified Service Partner (“CSP”) program certifies Polycom’s service and support channel partners by verifying their performance in providing customers with 24x7 support, fast response times, call center support, and training in Polycom solutions and IP networking. Polycom and its CSP partners are jointly able to offer maintenance and diagnostic service and support. The Polycom CSP program is an annual certification program that recognizes a channel partner’s expertise and service capabilities and their ongoing focus on customer satisfaction as measured through service performance metrics. The Polycom Partner Service Program (“PPSP”) is the corresponding international certification program. We have developed global service certification programs to support Polycom partners who want to participate in the integration of our solutions into Microsoft and IBM environments and also to formalize the certification of partners who would like to implement Polycom RealPresence products.

In addition, our Video Network Operations Center (“VNOC”) service provides customers with operations management for their Polycom RPX and Polycom OTX telepresence suites. VNOC services are available in two models—hosted and managed. Hosted VNOC service offers access to unlimited HD Multipoint Conferencing, using Polycom’s HD Multipoint Conferencing resources. Managed VNOC service provides remotely managed services for a customer’s dedicated, on-site Telepresence HD Multipoint Conferencing resources by Polycom telepresence experts. Our Telepresence VNOC certifications include an advanced designation for providing a higher level of support to customers.

SALES AND DISTRIBUTION

We market and sell our products through a global network of strategic, service provider, and channel partners, including Anixter, AT&T, Avaya, Inc., BT, Digital China Holdings Limited, Dimension Data Holdings

plc, Imago Group plc, Otsuka Shokai Co., Ltd., ScanSource Inc., Verizon, Westcon and many others. We also sell with several strategic partners including HP, IBM and Microsoft. Many of these partners sell a variety of communication products and/or services and, when combined with Polycom’s products, offer a complete product portfolio.

We have a high-touch and customer-centric sales strategy that is focused on building and maintaining close working relationships with enterprise and public sector customers directly and through partners. This high-touch approach to sales and marketing is best suited for our Network Infrastructure, UC Group Systems, and certain UC Personal Devices. Even with this high-touch sales approach, our product orders are almost always fulfilled through a channel or strategic partner. With collaborative communications becoming a priority network application and with the scale of our business increasing, we intend to continue to invest in our sales force and our channel partners in order to more fully capture the opportunity for customer adoption.

Our channel partners are required to be trained and certified for many products, which we believe yields a higher level of end-user customer satisfaction. Channel partners that stock product maintain a limited amount of inventory and, for some channel partners and our network infrastructure products, we ship directly to their end-user customers. Working with existing and new channel partners, we plan to continue to focus on the enterprise, government, education, healthcare, and manufacturing vertical markets. To complement our sales efforts, we advertise in online media and trade and general business print media and participate in a wide array of trade shows and global events and drive public relations activities. In addition, since the value of our solution is best realized through demonstration, we will continue to invest in executive briefing centers, demonstration centers, and the deployment of evaluation systems to end-user customers.

We focus our sales efforts in regions of the world where customers are investing significantly in collaborative communications solutions. Based on the global nature of this customer demand, our sales and service staff and our channel footprint exist in all major global regions. We conduct and manage our business in four geographic theatres: (1) North America, which consists of the United States and Canada; (2) Central American and Latin America (“CALA”); (3) Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and (4) Asia Pacific (“APAC”). For reporting purposes, we combine North America and CALA into one segment named Americas and report EMEA and APAC as separate segments. For a summary of the financial information of our segments, see Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference. We have product distribution centers in each theatre to best serve our global customer base.

A substantial majority of our revenue is from value-added resellers, distributors and service providers. In 2011 and 2010, one channel partner, Scansource Communications, accounted for more than 10% of our total net revenues. No one channel partner accounted for more than 10% of our total net revenues in 2009. We believe it is unlikely that the loss of any of our channel partners would have a long-term material adverse effect on our consolidated net revenues or segment net revenues as we believe end-users would likely purchase our products from a different channel partner. However, a loss of any one of these channel partners could have a material adverse impact during the transition period.

ACQUISITIONS AND INVESTMENTS IN PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES

We have completed a number of acquisitions during our operating history. During 2011, we completed three acquisitions. On March 21, 2011, we acquired Accordent Technologies, Inc. (“Accordent”), a privately held video content management and delivery solutions company. On July 27, 2011, we acquired the assets of the Hewlett-Packard Visual Collaboration (“HPVC”) business, including the Halo products and managed services business. On October 14, 2011, we acquired ViVu, Inc. (“ViVu”), a privately-held video collaboration software company. The total net cash paid in 2011 for these acquisitions was $163.6 million. We have included the financial results of Accordent, HPVC and ViVu in our Consolidated Financial Statements from the respective dates of acquisition.

We believe that making strategic acquisitions and minority investments in privately held companies is a good use of capital that can add value to our solutions with our strategic partners and for our end-user customers. We have spent and will continue to spend significant resources identifying and acquiring businesses. We believe that the efficient and effective integration of our acquired businesses into our organization is critical to our growth.

COMPETITION

Polycom competes in the Unified Communications (UC) market with products and solutions that enable voice and video collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via our customer premise-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social business platforms and VaaS offerings delivered from the cloud. Polycom competes with multiple competitors in each product line on a global basis. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Logitech International S.A., RADVISION Ltd., Avaya Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Aastra Technologies Limited, and Motorola, Inc. In some cases, we also cooperate and partner with these companies in programs such as the Polycom Open Collaboration Network and industry initiatives such as the Unified Communication Interoperability Forum (“UCIF”), an organization that we co-founded with Microsoft and others, and the OVCC, of which Polycom was a founding member and which currently has over 15 global telecommunications service providers in its membership.

Our competitive landscape has evolved throughout 2011 and continues to rapidly evolve as Polycom moves into new markets for video collaboration such as mobile, social, and cloud-delivered video, and as competitors consolidate, increase their corporate partnerships, evolve their strategies, develop new technologies, expand globally, and change their pricing strategies.

In 2011, Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, Logitech’s acquisition of Mirial, Avaya’s acquisition of Konftel AB, and Polycom’s own acquisitions of Accordent, HP’s video conferencing unit and ViVu all contributed to the changing competitive landscape providing both new challenges and opportunities for Polycom. Additionally, partnerships continue to develop in the market, such as Vidyo Inc.’s partnership with Ricoh Company, Ltd. and Skype’s partnership with Facebook, Inc. In some instances, these developments result in larger competitors with a proven ability to execute as evident in their substantial financial resources, as well as more sizable production, marketing, engineering and other capabilities with which to develop, manufacture, market, and sell their products. These developments also represent a change in the competitive environment that was once characterized by challenges posed by companies in a single competitive category, such as video-room systems, to a new competitive environment where offerings from companies span multiple product categories, including categories in which we do not currently directly compete such as web conferencing.

Competitors also continue to develop and introduce new technologies, sometimes proprietary, that represent threats through closed architectures such as Skype and Apple FaceTime. New competitors such as Blue Jeans Network, have created cloud-offerings that offer alternatives to on-premise solutions. Other offerings such as Cisco Systems’ CIUS, Avaya’s Flare-based ADVD, and Cisco Jabber also represent new competition that will compete against Polycom’s RealPresence Mobile solutions. Despite these and other forms of competition, however, the current competitive landscape presents Polycom with significant opportunity as an independent, open standards-based UC company with a compelling and differentiated value proposition for customers.

Our competitive environment also differs by geography. Cisco Systems is Polycom’s primary global competitor and is active in all geographic theaters and categories. Also, in the Asia Pacific theatre, the competitive landscape includes China-based competitors such as Huawei, ZTE Corporation, and other competitors in the region, including Sony Corporation, Zylotech Ltd., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Grandstream Communications, Inc., and other smaller competitors.

In professional services, we do not currently experience any significant competition from third-party maintenance and support companies. Third-party maintenance companies may become a threat in the future, as the industry grows and as competitors look to expand service revenue streams and consolidate service solutions

to their customers. Today, some of Polycom’s partners offer Polycom maintenance and support services, while others sell their own. To the extent that channel partners sell their own services these partners compete with us; however, they typically purchase maintenance contracts from us to support these services. In addition, as Polycom expands its professional services offering, we may compete more directly with system integrators in the future.

The principal competitive factors in the markets and categories in which we compete and may compete in the future include the ability to:

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provide and sell a broad range of UC solutions and services, including mobility and cloud-based solutions, and our ability to bring such products to market on a timely basis;

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appropriately and competitively price our products and solutions;

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provide competitive product performance;

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be successful in multiple markets with differing requirements, including, but not limited to, the enterprise, SMB, mobile video, social video, subscription-based video delivered from the cloud and service provider markets;

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introduce new products and solutions in a timely manner;

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reduce production and service costs;

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provide value-added features and functionality such as security, reliability, and investment protection through broad interoperability that provides backwards- and forwards-compatibility with other video systems and UC solutions;

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successfully integrate our products with, and operate our products on, existing customer platforms;

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gain market presence and brand recognition;

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extend credit to our partners;

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conform to open standards; and

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successfully address disruptive technology shifts and new business models, such as cloud-based, mobility and consumer solutions.

Unified communications—and in particular voice and video collaboration—represents an attractive, high-growth market that continues to attract new competitors regionally and globally. We believe Polycom’s commitment to open-standards, its platform approach, partnerships, and industry forums to offer the broadest interoperability among UC solutions continue collectively to represent a key competitive differentiator for the Company.

RESEARCH AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

We believe that our future success depends in part on innovating and developing new architectures, enhancing existing products, and bringing new products to market that maintain technological competitiveness. The markets for our products are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, and frequent new product introductions, which requires a significant investment in research and development. In September 2011, we announced a software strategy to bring secure HD video collaboration to the broadest range of business, video, mobile, and social networking applications through standards-based infrastructure delivered on-premises, hosted, or with service providers from the “video cloud.” Polycom believes this strategy will redefine the unified communications market, accelerate the adoption of Polycom software (from infrastructure to the edge), and establish Polycom as the default choice of customers and partners for open UC and HD video collaboration solutions that work together seamlessly across any application, protocol, call control system, or end point. The software strategy is a key component of Polycom’s growth strategy. We intend to continue to expand

upon our product platforms through the development of software options, upgrades, and future product generations. In addition, we plan to allocate more of our resources to the integration of our products with the platforms of strategic partners, including through our development of SVC technology that addresses the device, application, and network requirements of mobile, SMB, and consumer networks. We also intend to continue to comply with open-standards. However, we cannot guarantee that these products or enhancements will be made commercially available as expected or otherwise on a timely and cost-effective basis or that, if introduced, these products will achieve market acceptance.

Research and development expenses are expensed as incurred and totaled approximately $201.1 million in 2011, $149.0 million in 2010, and $117.6 million in 2009. We intend to continue to make substantial investments in product and technology development. We also intend to continue to participate in the development of various teleconferencing industry standards, which are or may be incorporated into our products.

CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT

Service and support are important components of the Polycom video solution that accelerate and maximize the customer’s return on their investment in Polycom. In addition to warranty support for the Polycom product lines that covers hardware, software media and repaired parts, Polycom provides maintenance and professional services through a global network of certified partners and service providers, and directly to some customers.

Polycom’s service portfolio addresses the entire solution lifecycle from needs analysis and design; to deployment services, such as Microsoft^® Lync™ and IBM Sametime^® integration; to a portfolio of maintenance services to meet each customer’s unique business needs; to managed services to augment a customer’s internal technical resources; and finally to optimization services that help customers make the most of their investment in Polycom video and voice collaboration solutions. Customers and partners can also leverage training and certification programs delivered through Polycom Learning Centers.

For ongoing support, Polycom provides maintenance services that include telephone support, software upgrades and updates, parts exchange, on-site assistance, and direct access to support engineers for real-time troubleshooting. For more mission-critical RealPresence Platform deployments, enhanced support services are available to provide faster response times in more than 20 cities worldwide. Polycom also offers AdvancedAccess to meet the demands of customers who were beginning to grow their deployments. When their video collaboration environment expands to the point where they require 24-hour solution-focused support, these customers are assigned a video engineer who is familiar with their environment. AdvancedAccess complements Polycom’s high-touch proactive Elite Service and offers an entry level to solution-focused support for smaller, but growing, deployments.

To ensure the best possible video collaboration experiences for users whether they are in a conference room, their office, on a mobile device roaming outside the firewall, web chatting on a social business site, or streaming VaaS from the cloud, Polycom encourages customers to maintain a current support contract so they can benefit from the ongoing innovation and research and development that Polycom shares through its software upgrade program, which in turn increases customer satisfaction. Helping partners to more efficiently manage the renewal of these contracts remains an ongoing focus.

In response to customer needs for assistance with more complex deployments, Polycom continues to develop a range of professional services and network consulting services to support its customers’ adoption of the Polycom RealPresence Platform. Offered as a professional service, Polycom’s strategic adoption solutions assist customers in migrating their video endpoints and software solutions to the new platform, deploy the latest features, enhancements, and interoperability updates released through the software upgrade program, and ensure the customer is getting optimal performance from their solution. Network consulting services are available to customers to assist with assessing network performance and design, as well as diagnosing network performance for video traffic. Because network performance is necessary to achieve high-quality video performance, Polycom developed a UC Network Monitoring service, available as a subscription service to customers, which provides 24-hour visibility into the customer’s network performance through an online portal.

Polycom’s professional and maintenance services are delivered through worldwide partners that resell Polycom service offerings, or through partners who participate in the service certification program and sell their own brand of services. Partners are backed by Polycom’s delivery infrastructure, which is made up of more than 100 learning centers, tech support centers, call centers and parts warehouse locations around the world. Polycom also has an online support portal for customers and a support community where customers can share information and access support 24 hours a day.

MANUFACTURING

We subcontract the manufacturing of most of our UC Group and UC Personal Device products to Celestica Inc., Askey Computer Corporation, Flextronics International Ltd., Foxconn Technology Group and VTech Holdings Ltd. These companies are all third-party electronic manufacturing service providers. We use Celestica’s facilities in Thailand and China, Flextronics in Mexico, and Foxconn, Askey and VTech in China. At the conclusion of the manufacturing process, these products are distributed to channel partners and end users through warehouses located in Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Thailand, and in the United States in Dayton, Ohio and Tracy, California. We also produce DECT Handsets internally in a vertically integrated factory in Horsens, Denmark. The key components of our network infrastructure products are manufactured by third parties in China, Taiwan, and Israel. Final system assembly, testing and configuration is performed by Celestica China, Celestica Thailand, and Polycom Israel. These network infrastructure products are distributed directly to end users from these manufacturing locations.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

While we rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and confidentiality procedures to protect our proprietary rights, we believe that factors such as technological and creative skills of our personnel, new product developments, frequent product enhancements, name recognition and reliable product maintenance are also essential to establishing and maintaining a technology leadership position. We currently have over one hundred ninety United States patents issued covering our products. The expiration of these patents range from 2012 to 2026. In addition, we currently have over two hundred non-U.S. patents issued whose expirations range from 2012 to 2032. Further, we have over one hundred twenty five published United States patent applications pending covering our conferencing and our network infrastructure products and over one hundred seventy five non-U.S. patent applications pending. Polycom, RealPresence, SoundPoint, SoundStation, ViewStation, VoiceStation, ReadiManager, ViaVideo, SpectraLink, KIRK, VSX, PVX, QSX, QDX, RMX, HDX, OneDial, SoundStation product configuration, the Polycom logo, Powered by Polycom, and others are registered trademarks of Polycom, and iPower, iPriority, HD Voice, Mobile Responder, PDS, PEC, PVE, ATX, and others are trademarks of Polycom in the U.S. and various countries. According to federal and state law, Polycom’s trademark protection will continue for as long as we continue to use our trademarks (in common law countries) and/or maintain our registrations (in civil law countries) in connection with the products and services of Polycom.

We have licensing agreements with various suppliers for software incorporated into our products and certain of our products are developed and manufactured based largely or solely on third-party technology. These third-party software licenses and arrangements may not continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable or competitive terms, if at all. The termination or impairment of these licenses could result in delays or reductions in or the elimination of new product introductions or current product shipments until equivalent software could be developed, licensed and integrated, if at all possible, which could harm our business and results of operations. Similarly some of our products may include “open source” software. Our ability to commercialize products and technologies incorporating open source software may be restricted because, among other factors, open source license terms may be unclear and may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our product offerings. The risks associated with our intellectual property are more fully discussed in the section entitled “Item 1A. Risk Factors” under the subheading entitled “If we have insufficient proprietary rights or if we fail to protect those rights we have, our business could be materially impaired.”

EMPLOYEES

As of December 31, 2011, we employed a total of 3,839 persons, including 1,865 in sales, marketing and customer support, 1,130 in research and product development, 312 in manufacturing, and 532 in finance and administration. Of these, 1,897 were employed outside of North America. We have experienced no work stoppages and believe our relationship with our employees is good.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE RISKS DESCRIBED BELOW BEFORE MAKING AN INVESTMENT DECISION. THE RISKS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WE FACE. ADDITIONAL RISKS THAT WE ARE NOT PRESENTLY AWARE OF OR THAT WE CURRENTLY BELIEVE ARE IMMATERIAL MAY ALSO IMPAIR OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS. OUR BUSINESS COULD BE HARMED BY ANY OR ALL OF THESE RISKS. THE TRADING PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK COULD DECLINE SIGNIFICANTLY DUE TO ANY OF THESE RISKS, AND YOU MAY LOSE ALL OR PART OF YOUR INVESTMENT. IN ASSESSING THESE RISKS, YOU SHOULD ALSO REFER TO THE OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K, INCLUDING OUR CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND RELATED NOTES.

Competition in each of our markets is intense, and our inability to compete effectively could significantly harm our business and results of operations.

Competition that we face in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific for our UC solutions and network infrastructure products is intense and it will likely intensify and could place increased pressure on average selling prices for our products. Some of our competitors compete with us in more than one geographic theater and across all of our product categories. Our major global competitor is Cisco Systems. Our other global competitors include Logitech, RADVISION, Avaya, Huawei, and Motorola, Inc. We also compete with other smaller or new industry entrants.

Our competitive landscape continues to rapidly evolve as we move into new markets for video collaboration such as mobile, social, and cloud-delivered video. Our competitors also continue to develop and introduce new technologies, sometimes proprietary, that represent threats through closed architecture such as Skype and Apple FaceTime. Other offerings such as Cisco Systems’ CIUS and Jabber, Avaya’s Flare-based ADVD, and Citrix Systems’ GoToMeeting with HD Faces also represent new competitive developments for Polycom. Many of these companies have substantial financial resources and production, marketing, engineering and other capabilities with which to develop, manufacture, market and sell their products, which may result in our having to lower our product prices and increase our spending on marketing which will correspondingly have a negative impact on our revenues, operating margins, and our ability to effectively compete against these companies.

The principal competitive factors in the markets in which we presently compete and may compete in the future include the ability to:

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provide and sell a broad range of UC solutions and services, including mobility and cloud-based solutions, and our ability to bring such products to market on a timely basis;

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appropriately and competitively price our products and solutions;

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provide competitive product performance;

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introduce new products and solutions in a timely manner;

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reduce production and service costs;

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successfully integrate our products with, and operate our products on, existing customer platforms;

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gain market presence and brand recognition;

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extend credit to our partners;

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conform to open standards; and

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successfully address disruptive technology shifts and new business models, such as cloud-based, mobility and consumer solutions.

Our competitive environment also differs by geography. Cisco Systems is our primary global competitor and is active in all theaters and categories in which we compete. In the Asia Pacific region, the competitive landscape also includes China-based competitors such as Huawei, ZTE Corporation, and other competitors in the region including Sony, Zylotech, ClearOne Communications, and Grandstream Communications.

We may not be able to compete successfully against our current or future competitors. We expect our competitors to continue to improve the performance of their current products and to introduce new products or new technologies that provide improved performance characteristics. New product introductions by our current or future competitors, or our delay in bringing new products to market to compete with competitive products, could cause a significant decline in sales or loss of market acceptance of our existing products and future products. We believe that the possible effects from ongoing competition may be a reduction in the prices of our products and our competitors’ products, the introduction of additional lower priced competitive products or the introduction of new products or product platforms that render our existing products or technologies obsolete. We also believe we will face increasing competition from alternative UC solutions that employ new technologies or new combinations of technologies. Further, the commoditization of certain video conferencing products is leading to the availability of alternative, lower-cost UC products than ours, such as those offered by Google, Inc., Skype and others, and, accordingly, could drive down our sales prices and negatively impact our revenues. For example, if Microsoft were to integrate Microsoft Lync with Skype, which it acquired in 2011, this could negatively impact the revenues from our solutions that integrate with Microsoft Lync.

Increased consolidation and the formation of strategic partnerships in our industry may lead to increased competition which could adversely affect our business and future results of operations.

Strategic partnerships and acquisitions are regularly being formed and announced by our competitors, which may increase competition and result in increased downward pressure on our product prices. For instance, we now compete against Cisco Systems due to its acquisition of Tandberg ASA, previously our largest independent competitor. As a result, we now compete with a larger combined company with significantly greater financial and sales and marketing resources than ours, an extensive channel network and an expanded video communications solutions product line. This product line may be sold in conjunction with Cisco Systems’ proprietary network equipment and technology as a complete solution, making it more difficult for us to compete against them or to ascertain pricing on competitive products. In addition, Cisco Systems may use its dominance in network equipment to foreclose competition in the telepresence and/or videoconferencing equipment market. Cisco Systems may also preclude our competitive products from being fully interoperable with Cisco Systems endpoints, video infrastructure and/or network products. Similarly, Avaya acquired Konftel, in January 2011 and LifeSize, which was acquired by Logitech, announced a partnership with Alcatel-Lucent in April 2010. These consolidations and partnerships have resulted in increased competition and pricing pressure for our UC solutions, which could also negatively impact our future results of operations, as the newly-combined entities have greater financial resources, deeper mass market sales channels and greater pricing flexibility than the standalone entities. Any such acquisitions by a strategic partner could also limit the potential contribution of our

strategic relationships to our business, restrict our ability to provide interoperable features in our products and restrict our ability to form strategic relationships with these companies in the future, any of which could result in decreases in both revenues and gross margins and harm our business.

It is possible that in the future, we will see increased competition in all of our geographic theaters and product lines to the extent that one or more of our competitors join together either through mutual agreement or acquisitions to form new partnerships to compete against us. Rumored or actual consolidation of our partners and competitors will likely cause uncertainty and disruption to our business and can cause our stock price to fluctuate.

Global economic conditions have adversely affected our business in the past and could adversely affect our revenues and harm our business in the future.

Adverse economic conditions worldwide have contributed to slowdowns in the communications and networking industries and have caused a negative impact on the specific segments and markets in which we operate. As our business has grown, we have become increasingly exposed to adverse changes in general global economic conditions, which can result in reductions in capital expenditures by end-user customers for our products, longer sales cycles, the deferral or delay of purchase commitments for our products and increased competition. These factors have adversely impacted our operating results in prior periods and could also impact us again in the future. Despite our growth in revenues in fiscal year 2010 and 2011, global economic concerns such as the varying pace of global economic recovery and the recent sovereign debt crisis in Europe and domestic debt and budget issues continue to create uncertainty and unpredictability, have resulted in longer selling cycles and cause us to continue to be cautious about our future outlook. A global economic downturn would negatively impact technology spending for our products and services and could materially adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. Further, global economic conditions have resulted in a tightening in the credit markets, low liquidity levels in many financial markets, decrease in customer demand and ability to pay obligations, and extreme volatility in credit, equity, foreign currency and fixed income markets.

These adverse economic conditions negatively impact our business, particularly our revenue potential, losses on investments and the collectability of our accounts receivable, by causing the inability of our customers to obtain credit to finance purchases of our products and services, customer or partner insolvencies or bankruptcies, decreased customer confidence to make purchasing decisions resulting in delays in their purchasing decisions, decreased customer demand or demand for lower-end products, and decreased customer ability to pay their obligations when they become due to us.

Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate significantly and are not necessarily a good indicator of future performance.

Our quarterly operating results have fluctuated in the past and may vary significantly in the future as a result of a number of factors, many of which are out of our control or can be difficult to predict. These factors include, but are not limited to:

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the impact of global economic conditions, as described above;

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fluctuations in demand for our products and services, in part due to uncertain global economic conditions and increased competition;

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our ability to execute on our strategic and operating plans, including improving the effectiveness of our North American sales organization;

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changes to our global organization, especially recent changes impacting our leadership and organizational structure in North America;

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slowing sales by our channel partners to their customers;

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changes to our channel partner programs, contracts and strategy that could result in a reduction in the number of channel partners, could adversely impact our revenues and gross margins as we realign our discount and rebate programs for our channels, or could cause more of our channel partners to add our competitors’ products to their portfolio;

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the prices and performance of our products and those of our existing or potential new competitors, which can change rapidly due to technological innovations;

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the timing, size and mix of the orders for our products;

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the level and mix of inventory that we hold to meet future demand, including the impact of efforts to decrease inventory and improve inventory turns, which could negatively impact our gross margins as a result of under-absorption of our manufacturing costs in any given period;

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changes in effective tax rates which are difficult to predict due to, among other things, the timing and geographical mix of our earnings, the outcome of current or future tax audits and potential new rules and regulations;

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changes in the underlying factors and assumptions regarding a number of highly complex and subjective variables used in determining stock-based compensation which may result in significant variability in the stock-based compensation costs we record, making such amounts difficult to accurately predict;

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fluctuations in the level of international sales and our exposure to foreign currency fluctuations on both revenues and expenses;

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dependence on third party manufacturers, which includes outside development manufacturers, and the associated manufacturing costs;

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the impact of increasing costs of freight and components used in the manufacturing of our products and the potential negative impact on our gross margins;

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the magnitude of any costs that we must incur in the event of a product recall or of costs associated with product warranty claims;

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the impact of seasonality on our various product lines and geographic regions; and

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adverse outcomes in intellectual property litigation and other matters and the costs associated with asserting and enforcing our intellectual property portfolio.

As a result of these and potentially other factors, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our historical results of operations are not necessarily a good predictor of our future performance. If our future operating results are below the expectations of stock market securities analysts or investors, or below any financial guidance we may provide to the market, our stock price will likely decline. Further, as the scale of our business increases, meeting financial guidance may become less predictable and more difficult to achieve. In addition, financial guidance beyond the current quarter is inherently subject to greater risk and uncertainty.

We face risks associated with the realignment of our North America sales organization.

Our year-over-year revenue growth rates in North America have recently declined. For example, the revenues generated in North America in the fourth quarter of 2011 declined sequentially from the third quarter of 2011, and our year-over-year growth rates in North America were at the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2009. As a result, we recently made changes impacting the leadership and structure of our sales organization in North America that are intended to realign and optimize the performance of the region. While the intent of these changes is to replicate the model that we have successfully implemented in EMEA and APAC, there can be no assurance that these changes will positively impact our future revenue performance in North America. Further, such actions have caused disruptions to our business, which could impact our ability to execute successfully in the short-term and ultimately may not yield the intended benefits in the longer term. If the changes are not as successful as we have planned, our revenues and results of operations will be harmed.

We face risks associated with developing and marketing our products, including new product development and new product lines that require a more direct-touch sales model.

Our success depends on our ability to assimilate new technologies in our products and to properly train our channel partners, sales force and end-user customers in the use of those products.

The markets for our products are characterized by rapidly changing technology, such as the demand for HD video technology and lower cost video infrastructure products, the shift from premise-based equipment to cloud-based delivery models, evolving industry standards and frequent new product introductions, including an increased emphasis on software products. Historically, our focus has been on premise-based solutions for the enterprise and public sector, targeted at vertical markets, including finance, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare, and this continues to be a high-growth market as recognition of the mission-critical benefits of video collaboration in the enterprise continues to grow. In addition, in response to emerging market trends, and the network effect driven by business-to-business adoption of UC, we are expanding our focus to capture opportunities within emerging markets including mobile, SMBs, cloud-based delivery and the consumer markets. If we are unable to successfully capture these markets to the extent anticipated, or to develop the new technologies and partnerships required to successfully compete in these marketplaces, then our revenues may not grow as anticipated, we may devote significant financial and other resources to these areas, and our business may ultimately be harmed. For example, we recently launched Polycom RealPresence Mobile and are at the early stages of the formation of our relationships with Samsung, Motorola, and others with respect to defining our mobility product offerings. Given the competitive nature of the mobility industry, changing end user behaviors and other industry dynamics, these relationships may not evolve into fully-developed product offerings or translate into any future revenues. Further, we are sponsoring the OVCC to leverage a global consortium of network and managed service providers to deliver broad connectivity service for unified communications and enable better business-to-business communication. The OVCC may not be as successful as we have planned, which could negatively impact our ability to deliver solutions for these markets.

The success of our new products depends on several factors, including proper new product definition, product cost, timely completion and introduction of new products, proper positioning of new products in relation to our total product portfolio and their relative pricing, our ability to price our products competitively while maintaining favorable product margins, differentiation of new products from those of our competitors, and market acceptance of these products. Other factors that may affect our success include properly addressing the complexities associated with compatibility issues, channel partner and sales force training, technical and sales support, and field support.

In addition, we are making additional investments in developing our immersive telepresence solutions and other product innovations as part of our key strategic initiatives to deliver cloud-based and mobile UC solutions. For example, we have announced a strategy to enable service providers to deliver VaaS through the Polycom RealPresence Cloud offering. Ultimately, it is possible that our increased investments in these areas may not yield the financial results that we plan to achieve from such investments as quickly as anticipated, or at all. In addition, in our high-end UC solutions, such as telepresence, that typically require direct high touch sales involvement with potential customers, we compete directly with large, multi-national corporations, such as Cisco Systems, who have substantially greater financial, technical and executive resources than we do, as well as greater name recognition and market presence with many potential customers. We and our channel partners must also effectively educate our potential end-user customers about the benefits of unified communication solutions and the products that we offer and the features available over those of our competitors.

We also need to continually educate and train our channel partners to avoid any confusion as to desirability of new product offerings compared to our existing product offerings and to be able to articulate the value of new offerings as the market evolves . During the last few years, we launched several new product offerings, such as our mobility and cloud-based solutions, and there is a risk that these new products could cause confusion among our channel partners and end-users, thereby causing them to delay purchases of any product until they determine if these products are more desirable products than our other products. Any delays in future purchases could

adversely affect our revenues, gross margins and operating results in the period of the delay. In addition, the introduction of new products may have an unintended negative impact on sales of and corresponding revenues associated with other products.

The shift in communications from circuit-switched to IP-based and other new technologies over time may require us to add new channel partners, enter new markets and gain new core technological competencies. We are attempting to address these needs and the need to develop new products through our internal development efforts, through joint developments with other companies and through acquisitions. However, we may not identify successful new product opportunities and develop and bring products to market in a timely manner. Further, as we introduce new products that can or will render existing products obsolete, these product transition cycles may not go smoothly, causing an increased risk of inventory obsolescence and relationship issues with our end-user customers and channel partners. The failure of our new product development efforts, any inability to service or maintain the necessary third-party interoperability licenses, our inability to properly manage product transitions or to anticipate new product demand, or our inability to enter new markets would harm our business and results of operations.

We may experience delays in product introductions and availability, and our products may contain defects which could seriously harm our results of operations.

We have experienced delays in the introduction of certain new products and enhancements in the past. The delays in product release dates that we experienced in the past have been due to factors such as unforeseen technology issues, manufacturing ramping issues and other factors, which we believe negatively impacted our sales revenue in the relevant periods. Any of these or other factors may occur again and delay our future product releases.

Our product development groups are dispersed throughout the United States and other international locations such as China, Denmark, India and Israel. Our need to manage large and geographically dispersed product development groups in our product lines results in certain inefficiencies and increased product development costs and creates an increased risk of delays in new product introductions.

We produce highly complex communications equipment, which includes both hardware and software and incorporates new technologies and component parts from different suppliers. Resolving product defect and technology and quality issues could cause delays in new product introduction. Component part shortages, such as those we experienced in the first half of 2010, could also cause delays in product delivery to our customers and lead to increased costs as we are required to expedite shipping to meet our product order requests. Further, some defects may not be detected or cured prior to a new product launch, or may be detected after a product has already been launched and may be incurable or result in a product recall. The occurrence of any of these events has resulted and could in the future result in the failure of a partial or entire product line or a temporary or permanent withdrawal of a product from the market. We may also have to invest significant capital and other resources to correct these problems, including product reengineering expenses and inventory, warranty and replacement costs. These problems might also result in claims against us by our customers or others and could harm our reputation and adversely affect future sales of our products.

Any delays in the future for new product offerings currently under development, such as product offerings for the mobile, cloud-based delivery and consumer markets, any product shipment delays or any product quality issues, product defect issues or product recalls could adversely affect the market acceptance of these products (and correspondingly result in loss of market share), our ability to compete effectively in the market, and our reputation and the satisfaction of our customers, and therefore could lead to decreased product sales and could seriously harm our results of operations. We may also experience cancellation of orders, difficulty in collecting accounts receivable, increased service and warranty costs in excess of our estimates, diversion of resources and increased insurance costs and other losses to our business or to end-user customers.

Product obsolescence or discontinuance and excess inventory can negatively affect our results of operations.

We operate in a high technology industry which is subject to rapid and frequent technology and market demand changes. The pace of change in technology development and in the release of new products has increased and is expected to continue to increase, which can often render existing or developing technologies obsolete. In addition, the introduction of new products and any related actions to discontinue existing products can cause existing inventory to become obsolete. These obsolescence issues, or any failure by us to properly anticipate product life cycles, can require write-downs in inventory value when it is determined that the recorded value of existing inventory is greater than its fair market value. If sales of one of these products has an unplanned negative effect on sales of another of our products, it could significantly increase the inventory levels of the negatively impacted product. For each of our products, the potential exists for new products to render existing products obsolete, cause inventories of existing products to increase, cause us to discontinue a product or reduce the demand for existing products.

Further, we continually evaluate our product lines both strategically and in terms of potential growth rates and margins. Such evaluations could result in the discontinuance or divestiture of those products in the future, which could be disruptive and costly and may not yield the intended benefits.

We face risks related to the adoption rate of new technologies.

We have invested significant resources developing products that are dependent on the adoption rate of new technologies. For example, our Polycom RealPresence Mobile solution is dependent on enterprise adoption of video technology and cloud-based delivery solutions on mobile devices. If the mobile video market does not grow as we anticipate, or if our strategy for addressing the market, or execution of such strategy, is not successful, our business and results of operations could be harmed. In addition, we develop new products or product enhancements based upon anticipated demand for new features and functionality, such as next generation HD video resolution technology and scalable video codec capabilities. We may not be able to sell certain of our products in significant volumes and our business may be harmed if the use of new technologies that our future products are based on does not occur; if we do not anticipate shifts in technology appropriately or rapidly enough; if the development of suitable sales channels does not occur, or occurs more slowly than expected; if our products that incorporate new technologies are not priced competitively or are not readily adopted; or if the adoption rates of such new technologies do not drive demand for our other products as we anticipate. For example, although we believe increased sales of UC solutions will drive increased demand for our network infrastructure products, such increased demand may not occur or we may not benefit to the same extent as our competitors. We also may not be successful in creating demand in our installed customer base for products that we develop that incorporate new technologies or features. Conversely, as we see the adoption rate of new technologies increase, product sales of our legacy products may be negatively impacted.

Lower than expected market acceptance of our products, price competition and other price changes would negatively impact our business.

If the market does not accept our products, particularly our new product offerings on which we are relying on for future revenues, such as product offerings for the mobile market and cloud-based delivery, our profitability would be harmed. Further, revenues relating to new product offerings are unpredictable, and new products typically have lower gross margins for a period of time after their introduction. As we introduce new products, they could increasingly become a higher percentage of our revenues. Our profitability could also be negatively affected in the future as a result of continuing competitive price pressures in the sale of UC solutions equipment and network infrastructure products, which could cause us to reduce the prices for any of our product offerings or discontinue one or more of our products with the intent of simplifying our product offering and enhancing sales of a similar product. . Further, we have reduced prices in the past in order to expand the market for our products, and in the future, we may further reduce prices, introduce new products that carry lower margins in order to expand the market or stimulate demand for our products, or discontinue existing products as a means of stimulating growth in a similar product.

Finally, if we do not fully anticipate, understand and fulfill the needs of end-user customers in the vertical markets that we serve, we may not be able to fully capitalize on product sales into those vertical markets and our revenues may, accordingly, fail to grow as anticipated or may be adversely impacted. We face similar risks as we expand and focus our business on the SMB and service provider markets.

Failure to adequately service and support our product offerings could harm our results of operations.

Our products are becoming increasingly more complex and are incorporating more complex technologies, such as those included in our network infrastructure, UC solutions and software products. This has increased the need for enhanced product warranty and service capabilities. In order to meet the demand for these enhanced service requirements, we may need to internally develop or acquire additional advanced service capabilities, which may require additional investments. If we cannot adequately develop and train our internal support organization or maintain our relationship with our outside technical support provider, it could adversely affect our business.

In addition, sales of our immersive telepresence solutions are more complex sales transactions than our other product lines, and the end-user customer in such transactions typically purchases an enhanced level of support service from us so that it can ensure that this significant investment can be fully operational and satisfy the end-user’s requirements. This requires an advanced services capability and project management from us in terms of resources and technical knowledge of an end-user customer’s telecommunication network. If we are unable to provide the proper level of support on a cost beneficial basis, it may cause damage to our reputation in this emerging market and may, as a result, harm our business and results of operations.

Impairment of our goodwill or other assets would negatively affect our results of operations.

In addition to our historical acquisitions, we have acquired a number of new businesses including most recently, ViVu, the assets of HPVC and Accordent in 2011. As of December 31, 2011, our goodwill was valued at approximately $584.2 million and other purchased intangible assets was valued at approximately $78.9 million, which together represent a significant portion of the assets recorded on our consolidated balance sheets. Goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets are reviewed for impairment at least annually or sooner under certain circumstances. Other intangible assets that are deemed to have finite useful lives will continue to be amortized over their useful lives but must be reviewed for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of these assets may not be recoverable. Screening for and assessing whether impairment indicators exist, or if events or changes in circumstances have occurred, including market conditions, operating fundamentals, competition and general economic conditions, requires significant judgment. Therefore, we cannot assure you that a charge to operations will not occur as a result of future goodwill and intangible asset impairment tests. The decreases in revenue and stock price that have occurred and may occur in the future as a result of global economic factors make such impairment more likely to result. If impairment is deemed to exist, we would write-down the recorded value of these intangible assets to their fair values. If and when these write-downs do occur, they could harm our business and results of operations.

In addition, we have made investments in private companies which we classify as “Other assets” on our consolidated balance sheets. The value of these investments is influenced by many factors, including the operating effectiveness of these companies, the overall health of these companies’ industries, the strength of the private equity markets and general market conditions. As of December 31, 2011, our investments in private companies were valued at $2.0 million. We recorded $0.1 million in impairment charges, net of recoveries, during the year ended December 31, 2011 in interest and other income/(expense), net. We may make additional investments in private companies which would be subject to similar impairment risks, and these impairment risks may cause us to write-down the recorded value of any such investments. Further, we cannot assure you that future inventory, investment, license, fixed asset or other asset write-downs will not happen. If future write-downs do occur, they could harm our business and results of operations.

Difficulties in identifying and integrating our acquisitions or implementing restructuring plans could adversely impact our business.

Difficulties in identifying and integrating acquisitions could adversely affect our business.

The process of identifying suitable candidates and integrating acquired companies into our operations requires significant resources and is time-consuming, expensive and disruptive to our business. Failure to achieve the anticipated benefits of any acquisitions, to retain key personnel, or to successfully integrate the operations of these companies could harm our business, results of operations and cash flows. We may not realize the benefits we anticipate from our acquisitions because of the following significant challenges:

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incorporating the acquired company’s technology and products and services into our current and future product lines, including providing new services for us such as the managed services business that was acquired in the HPVC acquisition;

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potential deterioration of the acquired company’s product sales and corresponding revenues due to integration activities and management distraction;

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managing integration issues including, in the case of our acquisition of HPVC, the continuing provisioning of transition services by HP to us;

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potentially creating confusion in the marketplace by ineffectively distinguishing or marketing the product offerings of the newly acquired company with our existing product lines, including the impact of competing products on acquired product and services revenue streams;

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entering new businesses or product lines;

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potentially incompatible cultural differences between the two companies;

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geographic dispersion of operations;

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interruption of manufacturing operations as we transition an acquired company’s manufacturing to our outsourced manufacturing model;

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generating marketing demand for an expanded product line;

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distraction of the existing and acquired sales force during the integration of the companies;

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the difficulty in leveraging the acquired company’s and our combined technologies and capabilities across all product lines and customer bases; and

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our inability to retain previous customers or employees of an acquired company.

We have spent and will continue to spend significant resources identifying and acquiring businesses. Any of our acquisitions involve numerous risks, including difficulties in identifying targets with strategic synergies which yield an acceptable level of return on investment, financing strategic transactions and integrating the operations, technologies and products of the acquired companies, the diversion of our management’s attention from other business concerns, particularly when dealing with the integration of large and complex organizations, and the potential loss of key employees of the acquired companies. Failure to achieve the anticipated benefits of these and any future acquisitions or to successfully integrate the operations of the companies we acquire could also harm our business, results of operations and cash flows. Additionally, we cannot assure you that we will not incur material charges in future quarters to reflect additional costs associated with any future acquisitions we may make.

Our failure to successfully implement restructuring plans related to vacant and redundant facilities could adversely impact our business.

We have in the past, and may in the future, as part of acquiring a company or as part of restructuring actions taken to streamline the business, identify redundant facilities. If we identify redundant facilities, we would

develop a plan to exit as part of the integration of the businesses or as part of the implementation of the restructuring plan. Any reserve would be net of estimated sublease income we expect to generate. Our estimate of sublease income is based on current comparable rates for leases in the respective markets. If actual sublease income is lower than our estimates for any reason, if it takes us longer than we estimated to sublease these facilities, or if the associated cost of subleasing or terminating our lease obligations for these facilities is greater than we estimated, we would incur additional charges to operations which would harm our business, results of operations and cash flows. To the extent that any such cash outflows or additional costs exceed the amount of our recorded liability related to the sublease or termination of these lease obligations, we could incur a charge to operations, which would harm our business and adversely impact our results of operations.

We experience seasonal demand for our products and services, which may adversely impact our results of operations during certain periods.

Sales of some of our products have experienced seasonal fluctuations which have affected sequential growth rates for these products, particularly in our first and third quarters. For example, the first quarter of the year is typically the least predictable quarter of the year for us and there is generally a slowdown for sales of our products in the European region in the third quarter of each year. Further, the timing of fiscal year ends for our government and enterprise customers may result in significant fluctuations from quarter to quarter. Seasonal fluctuations could negatively affect our business, which could cause our operating results to fall short of anticipated results for such quarters.

Our operating results are hard to predict as a significant amount of our sales may occur at the end of a quarter and certain of our service provider contracts include contractual acceptance provisions.

The timing of our channel partner orders and product shipments and our inability to reduce expenses quickly may adversely impact our operating results.

Our quarterly revenues and operating results depend in large part upon the volume and timing of channel partner orders received during a given quarter and the percentage of each order that we are able to ship and recognize as revenue during each quarter, each of which is extremely difficult to forecast. We have experienced longer sales cycles in connection with our high-end UC solutions, which could also increase the level of unpredictability and fluctuation in the timing of orders. Further, depending upon the complexity of these solutions, such as telepresence and some network infrastructure products, and the underlying contractual terms, revenue may not be recognized until the product has been accepted by the end-user, resulting in further revenue unpredictability.

Our expectations for both short and long-term future revenues are based almost exclusively on our own estimate of future demand and not on firm channel partner orders. Our expense levels are based largely on these estimates. In addition, a significant portion of our product orders are received in the last month of a quarter, typically the last few weeks of that quarter; thus, the unpredictability of the receipt of these orders could negatively impact our future results. For instance, since the second quarter of 2011, we have experienced a higher percentage of our bookings and resulting revenue in the third month of the quarter than in comparable periods in 2010. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2011, approximately 50% of our quarterly revenues were recognized in the third month of the quarter, as compared to 41% in the third month of the fourth quarter of 2010. Accordingly, if for any reason orders and revenues do not meet our expectations in a particular period, we will be limited in our ability to reduce expenses quickly, and any significant shortfall in demand for our products in relation to our expectations would have an adverse impact on our operating results.

Delays in receiving contractual acceptance will cause delays in our ability to recognize revenue and may impact our quarterly revenues, depending upon the timing and shipment of orders under such contracts.

Certain of our sales contracts include product acceptance provisions which vary depending upon the type of product and individual terms of the contract. In addition, acceptance criteria may be required in other contracts in

the future, depending upon the size and complexity of the sale and the type of products ordered. As we increase our focus on growing our service provider business, it is likely that an increased amount of our revenue will be subject to such contractual acceptance terms. Accordingly, we defer revenue until the underlying acceptance criteria in any given contract have been met. Depending upon the acceptance terms, the timing of the receipt and subsequent shipment of an order may result in acceptance delays, may reduce the predictability of our revenues, and, consequently, may adversely impact our revenues and results of operations in any particular quarter.

We face risks related to our dependence on channel partners to sell our products.

Conflicts and competition with our channel partners and strategic partners could hurt sales of our products.

We have various OEM agreements with major telecommunications equipment manufacturers, such as Avaya and Cisco Systems, whereby we manufacture our products to work with the equipment of the OEM. These relationships can create conflicts with our other channel partners who directly compete with our OEM partners, or could create conflicts among our OEM partners who compete with each other, which could adversely affect revenues from these other channel partners or our OEM partners. Conflicts among our OEM partners could also make continued partnering with these OEM partners increasingly difficult. Our OEM partners, including large competitors such as Cisco Systems, may decide to enter into a new OEM partnership with a company other than us or develop products of their own, or acquire such products through acquisition, that compete with ours in the future, which could adversely affect our revenues and results of operations. Because many of our channel partners also sell equipment that competes with our products, these channel partners could devote more attention to these other products which could harm our business. Further, as a result of our more direct-touch sales model, we may alienate some of our channel partners or cause a shift in product sales from our traditional channel model as these traditional relationships evolve over time. Due to these and other factors, channel conflicts could arise which cause channel partners to devote resources to other non-Polycom communications equipment, or to offer new products from our new and existing competitors, which would negatively affect our business or results of operations.

As part of our key strategic initiatives, we are focusing on our strategic partnerships with HP, IBM, Microsoft and Apple. For example, in conjunction with our acquisition of HP’s HPVC business, HP and Polycom have entered into a strategic relationship in which we will serve as an exclusive partner to HP for certain video unified communications solutions for both resale and internal HP deployments. This exclusivity is limited to the Polycom telepresence, group video systems, and UC network infrastructure product offerings available at the applicable time during the exclusivity period and does not preclude the purchase or resale of Microsoft products sold and developed in these categories. Defining, managing and developing these partnerships is expensive and time consuming and may not come to fruition or yield the desired results, impacting our ability to effectively compete in the unified communications market and to take advantage of anticipated future market growth. For example, our key strategic relationship with Microsoft in which we are jointly developing and marketing a unified communications solution that leverages the demand for Microsoft’s next generation UC server could negatively impact our ability to compete effectively in the UC marketplace if we are unsuccessful. Our mobile UC solutions initiative is also dependent on our ability to successfully partner with mobile device manufacturers.

In addition, as we enter into agreements with these strategic partners to enable us to continue to expand our relationships with these partners, we may undertake additional obligations which could trigger unintended penalty or other provisions in the event that we fail to fully perform our contractual commitments or could result in additional costs beyond those that are planned in order to meet these contractual obligations.

As we continue to build strategic partnerships with companies, conflicts between our strategic partners could arise which could harm our business.

Some of our current and future products are directly competitive with the products sold by both our channel and strategic partners. As a consequence of these conflicts, there is the potential for our channel and strategic partners to compete head-to-head with us and to significantly reduce or eliminate their orders of our products or

design our technology out of their products. Further, some of our products are reliant on strategic partnerships with call manager providers and wireless network infrastructure providers. These partnerships result in interoperable features between products to deliver a total solution to our mutual end-user customers. Competition with our partners in all of the markets in which we operate is likely to increase, potentially resulting in strains on our existing relationships with these companies.

We are subject to risks associated with our channel partners’ sales reporting, product inventories and product sell-through.

We sell a significant amount of our products to channel partners who maintain their own inventory of our products for sale to dealers and end-users. Our revenue estimates associated with products stocked by some of our channel partners are based largely on end-user sales reports that our channel partners provide to us on a monthly basis. To date, we believe this data has been generally accurate. To the extent that this sales-out and channel inventory data is inaccurate or not received timely, we may not be able to make revenue estimates for future periods. Further, if these channel partners are unable to sell an adequate amount of their inventory of our products in a given quarter to dealers and end-users or if channel partners decide to decrease their inventories for any reason, such as a recurrence of global economic uncertainty and downturn in technology spending, the volume of our sales to these channel partners and our revenues would be negatively affected. In addition, we also face the risk that some of our channel partners have inventory levels in excess of future anticipated sales. If such sales do not occur in the time frame anticipated by these channel partners for any reason, these channel partners may substantially decrease the amount of product they order from us in subsequent periods, or product returns may exceed historical or predicted levels, which would harm our business.

Potential changes to our channel partner programs or channel partner contracts may not be favorably received and as a result our channel partner relationships and results of operations may be adversely impacted.

Our channel partners are eligible to participate in various incentive programs, depending upon their contractual arrangements with us. As part of these arrangements, we have the right to make changes in our programs and launch new programs as business conditions warrant. Further, from time to time, we may make changes to our channel partner contracts. These changes could upset our channel partners to the extent that they could add competitive products to their portfolios, delay advertising or sales of our products, or shift more emphasis to selling our competitors’ products, if not appropriately handled. There can be no assurance that our channel partners will be receptive to future changes or that we will receive the positive benefits that we are anticipating in making any program and contractual changes.

Consolidation of our channel partners and strategic partners may result in changes to our overall business relationships, less favorable contractual terms and disruption to our business.

We have seen consolidation among certain of our existing channel partners and strategic partners. In such instances, we may experience changes to our overall business and operational relationships due to dealing with a larger combined entity. Further, our ability to maintain such relationships on favorable contractual terms may be limited. For instance, the combined entity may be successful in negotiating the most favorable contractual terms out of each of their respective contracts, including terms such as credit and acceptance, which are less favorable than those in our existing contracts with each channel partner. Depending on the extent of these changes and other disruptions caused to the combined businesses during the integration period, the timing and extent of revenue from these channel partners may be adversely affected.

We are subject to risks associated with the success of the businesses of our channel partners and our financing program.

Many of our channel partners that carry multiple Polycom products, and from whom we derive significant revenues, are thinly capitalized. Although we perform ongoing evaluations of the creditworthiness of our channel

partners, the failure of these businesses to establish and sustain profitability, obtain financing or adequately fund capital expenditures could have a significant negative effect on our future revenue levels and profitability and our ability to collect our receivables. As we have grown our revenues and our customer base, our exposure to credit risk has increased. In addition, global economic uncertainty, a downturn in technology spending in the United States and other countries, and the financial services crisis have restricted the availability of capital, which may delay our collections from our channel partners beyond our historical experience or may cause companies to file for bankruptcy, jeopardizing the collectability of our revenues from such channel partners and negatively impacting our future results as they reorganize or go out of business. Further, we intend to increase our end-user financing program to support our Software-as-a-Service and cloud business models, which will also increase our credit risk. Efforts to develop these programs will require significant resources that may not generate the revenue we anticipate or yield intended benefits.

Our channel partner contracts are typically short-term and early termination of these contracts may harm our results of operations.

We do not typically enter into long-term contracts with our channel partners, and we cannot be certain as to future order levels from our channel partners. When we do enter into a long-term contract, the contract is generally terminable at the convenience of the channel partner. In the event of an early termination by one of our major channel partners, we believe that the end-user customer would likely purchase from another one of our channel partners. If this did not occur and we were unable to rapidly replace that revenue source, its loss would harm our results of operations.

International sales and expenses represent a significant portion of our revenues and operating expenses and risks inherent in international operations could harm our business.

International sales and expenses represent a significant portion of our revenues and operating expenses, and we anticipate that international sales will continue to increase and to account for a significant portion of our revenues for the foreseeable future and that international operating expenses will continue to increase. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2011, international revenues represented 59% of our total revenues. International sales and expenses are subject to certain inherent risks, which would be amplified if our international business grows as anticipated, including the following:

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adverse economic conditions in international markets, including the restricted credit environment;

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potential foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, including the recent volatility of the U.S. dollar, and the impact of our underlying hedging programs;

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environmental and trade protection measures and other legal and regulatory requirements, some of which may affect our ability to import our products, to export our products from, or sell our products in various countries;

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unexpected changes in regulatory requirements and tariffs;

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longer payment cycles;

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potentially adverse tax consequences;

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the near and long-term impact of the instability in the Middle East or other hostilities; and

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adverse economic impact of terrorist attacks and incidents and any military response to those attacks.

International revenues may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenues in the future as we introduce new products. These fluctuations are primarily the result of our practice of introducing new products in North America first and the additional time and costs required for product homologation and regulatory approvals of new products in international markets. To the extent we are unable to expand international sales in a timely and cost-effective manner, our business could be harmed. We cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain or increase international market demand for our products.

Although to date, a substantial majority of our international sales have been denominated in U.S. currency, we expect that a growing number of sales will be denominated in non-U.S. currencies as more international customers request billing in their currency. In particular, with the acquisition of HP’s HPVC business, a number of the customer contracts that we assumed provided for local currency billings. We maintain local currency pricing in the European Union and the United Kingdom whereby we price and invoice our products and services in Euros and British Pounds. In addition, some of our competitors currently invoice in foreign currency, which could be a disadvantage to us in those markets where we do not. Our international operating expenses are primarily denominated in foreign currency with no offsetting revenues in those currencies except for the Euro and British Pound. As a result of these factors, we expect our business will be vulnerable to currency fluctuations, which could adversely impact our margins. In addition, significant adverse changes in currency exchange rates could cause our products to become relatively more expensive to customers in a particular country, leading to a reduction in revenue or profitability in that country, as discounts may be temporarily or permanently affected. We will continue to evaluate whether it is necessary to denominate sales in local currencies other than the Euro and the British Pound, depending on customer requirements.

While we do not hedge for speculative purposes, as a result of our increased exposure to currency fluctuations, such as we have seen in the Euro and British Pound in 2010, we typically engage in currency hedging activities to mitigate currency fluctuation exposure. As a result, our hedging costs can vary depending upon the size of our hedge program, whether we are purchasing or selling foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar and interest rates spreads between the U.S. and other foreign markets. As a result, interest and other income (expense), net has become less predictable and more difficult to forecast. Due to the denomination of our European product sales in Euros and of our United Kingdom product sales in British Pounds, we have increased our hedging activity. The impact in any given quarter of our hedging programs is dependent upon a number of factors, including the actual level of foreign currency denominated revenues, the percentage of actual revenues covered by our hedge contracts, the exchange rate in our underlying hedge contracts and the actual exchange rate during the quarter. For example, as a result of our program, in the first, second and third quarters of 2011, we reduced operating income by $0.5 million, $2.4 million, and $0.3 million, respectively, as compared to increasing operating income in the fourth quarter of 2011, the first, second, third, and fourth quarters of 2010 by $0.3 million, $0.5 million, $1.7 million, $1.4 million, and $1.0 million, respectively.

Difficulties we may encounter managing a substantially larger business could adversely affect our operating results.

If we fail to successfully attract and retain highly qualified management personnel, our business will be harmed.

Our future success will depend in part on our continued ability to hire, assimilate and retain highly qualified senior executives and other key management personnel. For example, we recently made changes impacting our sales leadership and organizational structure in North America. In addition, we recently announced the retirement of our current Chief Financial Officer and the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer effective February 21, 2012. As these new executives and sales leaders assess their areas of responsibilities and define their organizations, it will likely result in disruption to the business and additional organizational changes or restructuring actions and charges. Future changes to our executive and senior management teams, including new executive hires or departures, or other organizational changes implemented by our executive leadership team, could cause disruption to the business and have an impact on our ability to execute successfully in future periods, particularly with respect to the execution of our go-to-market strategy and the expected resulting revenues, while these operational areas are in transition. Competition for qualified executive and other management personnel is intense, and we may not be successful in attracting or retaining such personnel, which could harm our business.

We have experienced significant growth in our business and operations due to internal expansion and business acquisitions, and if we do not appropriately manage this growth and any future growth, our operating results may be negatively affected.

Our business has grown in recent years through internal expansion and business acquisitions and we announced several key strategic imperatives for 2012 that we are undertaking to further grow our business,

including developing our cloud-based UC solutions, delivering our UC solutions to mobile platforms, focusing our strategic R&D and go-to-market investments on Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Apple, growing the RealPresence Platform, and leveraging growth market opportunities. Our execution against our strategic imperatives may cause strain on our organizational resources and may not ultimately result in the return on investment that is anticipated. Further, continued growth in general, which may include growth through business acquisitions, such as our acquisitions in 2011, may continue to cause a significant strain on our infrastructure, internal systems and managerial resources. To manage our growth effectively, we must continue to improve and expand our infrastructure, including information technology and processes, financial operating and administrative systems and controls, and continue managing headcount and capital in an efficient manner. For example, our information technology systems may not grow at a sufficient rate to keep up with the processing and information demands placed on them by a much larger company. We plan to upgrade and expand our information technology systems and underlying business processes, which will be costly and disruptive to our business. Our inability to do so could harm our business. Similarly, revenues may not grow at a sufficient rate to absorb the costs associated with a larger overall headcount. In addition, we must continue to evolve our processes, such as the process we use for collecting customer information, to take advantage of automation tools as the size of our business grows, or the processes that we developed when we were a smaller company may not be sustainable and could cause harm to our business. We also may be less able to predict and effectively control our operating expenses due to the growth and increasing complexity of our business.

We have a Shared Services Center (“SSC”) in Beijing, China, where we perform certain accounting, order entry and other functions previously performed in regional headquarter locations and we may expand our SSC operations in the future. Efforts to globalize these shared functions into one location may not yield the intended benefits and could result in higher turnover than planned, which could have an adverse effect on these functions during the transition. In addition, if the controls we put in place with respect to the SSC fail to operate effectively, our business and results of operations could be harmed.

We have in the past, and we may again in the future, implement restructuring plans to eliminate or relocate positions in order to reallocate resources to more strategic growth areas of the business or to reduce our operating costs. Such restructuring actions resulted in charges to operations of $9.4 million, $8.1 million, and $15.9 million that we recorded as restructuring costs during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively. Any organizational disruptions associated with restructuring activities would require increased management attention and financial expenditures, or we may discover we terminated the wrong personnel or cut too deeply, which may impact our operations. If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, if we experience a shortfall in resources or if we must take additional restructuring charges, our results of operations will be harmed.

We have limited supply sources for some key components of our products and services and for the outside development and manufacture of certain of our products, and our operations could be harmed by supply or service interruptions, component defects or unavailability of these components or products.

Some key components used in our products are currently available from only one source and others are available from only a limited number of sources, including some key integrated circuits and optical elements. Because of such limited sources for component parts, we may have little or no ability to procure these parts on favorable pricing terms. We also obtain certain plastic housings, metal castings, batteries, and other components from suppliers located in China, Japan, and certain Southeast Asia countries, and any political or economic instability in that region in the future, natural disasters, quarantines or other disruptions associated with infectious diseases, or future import restrictions, may cause delays or an inability to obtain these supplies. Further, we have suppliers in Israel and the military action in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan or war with other Middle Eastern countries perceived as a threat by the United States government may cause delays or an inability to obtain supplies for our network infrastructure products.

We have no raw material supply commitments from our suppliers and generally purchase components on a purchase order basis either directly or through our contract manufacturers. Some of the components included in

our products, such as microprocessors and other integrated circuits, have from time to time been subject to limited allocations by suppliers. In addition, companies with limited or uncertain financial resources manufacture some of these components. Further, we do not always have direct control over the supply chain, as many of our component parts are procured for us by our contract manufacturers. In the event that we, or our contract manufacturers, are unable to obtain sufficient supplies of components, develop alternative sources as needed, or companies with limited financial resources go out of business, our operating results could be seriously harmed. For example, the recent flooding in Thailand has affected certain of our suppliers, which could negatively impact the supply of components for some of our products. In addition, we may incur additional costs to resolve these supply shortages, which would negatively impact our gross margins, as we have seen in recent quarters.

Moreover, we have strategic relationships with third parties to develop and manufacture certain products for us. The loss of any such strategic relationship due to competitive reasons, our inability to resolve any contractual disputes that may arise between us, the financial instability of a strategic partner or a supplier or their inability to obtain any financing necessary to adequately fund their operations, particularly in light of the unpredictable economic environment, or other factors, could have a negative impact on our ability to produce and sell certain products and product lines and, consequently, may adversely affect our revenues and results of operations.

For example, we are dependent upon third party suppliers for our managed services. In the event that any such supplier is acquired by a competitor or faces financial difficulty, such event creates a risk of managed service discontinuity for our customers while we search for a replacement provider and may materially adversely affect our ability to sell our telepresence products.

Additionally, our HDX solutions and network system products are designed based on digital signal processors and integrated circuits produced by Texas Instruments and cameras produced by JVC. If we could no longer obtain integrated circuits or cameras from these suppliers, we would incur substantial expense and take substantial time in redesigning our products to be compatible with components from other manufacturers, and we cannot assure you that we would be successful in obtaining these components from alternative sources in a timely or cost-effective manner. The failure to obtain adequate supplies of vital components could prevent or delay product shipments, which could harm our business. We also rely on the introduction schedules of some key components in the development or launch of new products. Any delays in the availability of these key components could harm our business.

Finally, our operating results would be seriously harmed by receipt of a significant number of defective components or components that fail to fully comply with environmental or other regulatory requirements, an increase in component prices, such as the price increases for components as a result of increased transportation and manufacturing costs of our suppliers, or our inability to obtain lower component prices in response to competitive price reductions.

If we experience manufacturing disruptions or capacity constraints or our manufacturers fail to comply with laws or standards, our business would be harmed.

We subcontract the manufacture of most of our products to Celestica, Askey, Flextronics, Foxconn and VTech, which are all third-party contract manufacturers. We use Celestica’s facilities in Thailand and China, Flextronics’ facilities in Mexico and Askey’s, Foxconn’s, and VTech’s facilities in China and should there be any disruption in services due to natural disaster, terrorist acts, quarantines or other disruptions associated with infectious diseases, or economic or political difficulties in any of these countries or Asia or for any other reason, such disruption would harm our business and results of operations. While we have begun to develop secondary manufacturing sources for certain products, Celestica’s facilities are currently the manufacturer for substantially all of these products, which means we are essentially sole-sourced for the manufacturing of such products, and if Celestica experiences an interruption in operations, suffers from capacity constraints, which may include constraints based on production demands from us as we grow our business, or is otherwise unable to meet our current or future production requirements we would experience a delay or inability to ship our products, which

would have an immediate negative impact on our revenues. Moreover, any incapacitation of any of our or our subcontractors’ manufacturing sites due to destruction, natural disaster or similar events could result in a loss of product inventory. As a result of any of the foregoing, we may not be able to meet demand for our products, which could negatively affect revenues in the quarter of the disruption or longer depending upon the magnitude of the event, and could harm our reputation. In addition, operating in the international environment exposes us to certain inherent risks, including unexpected changes in regulatory requirements and tariffs, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations and potentially adverse tax consequences, all of which could harm our business and results of operations.

Finally, certain of our thinly capitalized subcontractors may fail or be detrimentally harmed in the unpredictable economic environment, which could have a materially adverse impact on our results of operations.

In addition, we expect our contractors to meet certain standards of conduct, including standards related to the environment, health and safety and general working conditions. Significant or continuing noncompliance of such standards or local laws could harm our reputation or cause us to experience disruptions that could harm our business and results of operations.

We face risks relating to changes in rules and regulations of the FCC and other regulatory agencies.

Our products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations. Compliance with current laws and regulations has not had a material adverse effect on our financial condition. However, new laws and regulations or new or different interpretations of existing laws and regulations could deny or delay our access to certain markets or require us to incur costs or become the basis for new or increased liabilities that could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

The telecommunications industry is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) in the United States and similar government agencies in other countries and is subject to changing political, economic, and regulatory influences. Changes in telecommunications requirements, or regulatory requirements in other industries in which we operate now or in the future, in the United States or other countries could materially adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition, including our newly acquired managed services offering. Further, changes in the regulation of our activities, such as increased or decreased regulation affecting prices, could also have a material adverse effect upon our business and results of operations.

If we have insufficient proprietary rights or if we fail to protect those rights we have, our business could be materially impaired.

We rely on third-party license agreements and termination or impairment of these agreements may cause delays or reductions in product introductions or shipments which could harm our business.

We have licensing agreements with various suppliers for software incorporated into our products. In addition, certain of our products are developed and manufactured based largely or solely on third-party technology. These third-party software licenses and arrangements may not continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable or competitive terms, if at all. The termination or impairment of these licenses could result in delays or reductions in new product introductions or current product shipments until equivalent software could be developed, licensed and integrated, if at all possible, which could harm our business and results of operations. Further, if we are unable to obtain necessary technology licenses on commercially reasonable or competitive terms, we could be prohibited from marketing our products, forced to market products without certain features, or incur substantial costs to redesign our products, defend legal actions, or pay damages. In addition, some of our products may include “open source” software. Our ability to commercialize products or technologies incorporating open source software may be restricted because, among other factors, open source license terms may be unclear and may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our product offerings.

We rely on patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets to protect our proprietary rights which may not be sufficient to protect our intellectual property.

We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and confidentiality procedures to protect our proprietary rights. Others may independently develop similar proprietary information and techniques or gain access to our intellectual property rights or disclose such technology. In addition, we cannot assure you that any patent or registered trademark owned by us will not be invalidated, circumvented or challenged in the U.S. or foreign countries or that the rights granted thereunder will provide competitive advantages to us or that any of our pending or future patent applications will be issued with the scope of the claims sought by us, if at all. Furthermore, others may develop similar products, duplicate our products or design around our patents. In addition, foreign intellectual property laws may not protect our intellectual property rights. Litigation may be necessary to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity of and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources which could harm our business, and we could ultimately be unsuccessful in protecting our intellectual property rights. Further, our intellectual property protection controls across our global operations may not be adequate to fully protect us from the theft or misappropriation of our intellectual property, which could adversely harm our business.

We face intellectual property infringement claims and other litigation claims that might be costly to resolve and, if resolved adversely, may harm our operating results or financial condition.

We are a party to lawsuits (patent-related and otherwise) in the normal course of our business. The results of, and costs associated with, complex litigation matters are difficult to predict, and the uncertainty associated with substantial unresolved lawsuits could harm our business, financial condition, and reputation. Negative developments with respect to pending lawsuits could cause our stock price to decline, and an unfavorable resolution of any particular lawsuit could have an adverse and possibly material effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, we may become involved in matters such as regulatory investigations or other governmental or private legal proceedings, which could result in requests for information from us that could be distracting, expensive and time consuming for us while we comply with such requests, and, if public, may also cause our stock price to be negatively impacted. We expect that the number and significance of claims and legal proceedings that assert patent infringement claims or other intellectual property rights covering our products, either directly against us or against our customers, will increase as our business expands. Any claims or proceedings against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, require significant amounts of management time, result in the diversion of significant operational resources, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements or pay amounts to third parties pursuant to contractual indemnity provisions. Royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. An unfavorable outcome in any such claim or proceeding could have a material adverse impact on our financial position and results of operations for the period in which the unfavorable outcome occurs, and potentially in future periods. Further, any settlement announced by us may expose us to further claims against us by third parties seeking monetary or other damages which, even if unsuccessful, would divert management attention from the business and cause us to incur costs, possibly material, to defend such matters.

If we fail to manage our exposure to the volatility and economic uncertainty in the global financial marketplace successfully, our operating results could be adversely impacted.

We are exposed to financial risk associated with the global financial markets, which includes volatility in interest rates, uncertainty in the credit markets and the recent instability in the foreign currency exchange market.

Our exposure to market rate risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our investment portfolio. The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, maintain adequate liquidity and portfolio diversification while at the same time maximizing yields without significantly increasing risk. To achieve these objectives, a majority of our marketable investments include debt instruments of the U.S. government and its agencies, investment-grade corporate debt securities, bank certificates of deposit and money market instruments denominated in U.S. dollars.

The valuation of our investment portfolio is subject to uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Factors that may impact its valuation include changes to credit ratings or quality of the securities, interest rate changes, the ongoing strength and quality of the global credit market and liquidity. All of the securities in our investment portfolio are investment-grade rated, but the instability of the credit market could impact those ratings and our decision to hold these securities, if they do not meet our minimum credit rating requirements. If we should decide to sell such securities, we may suffer losses in principal value that have significantly declined in value due to the declining credit rating of the securities and the ongoing strength and the global financial markets as a whole. If the carrying value of our investments exceeds the fair value, and the decline in fair value is deemed to be other-than-temporary, we will be required to write-down the value of our investments. For the year ended December 31, 2011, we did not recognize any other-than-temporary impairment or losses on our investments.

With the instability in the financial markets, we could incur significant realized or other than temporary impairment losses associated with certain of our investments which would reduce our net income. We may also incur further temporary impairment charges requiring us to record additional unrealized loss in accumulated other comprehensive income. A significant portion of our net revenue and expenses are transacted in U.S. dollars. However, some of these activities are conducted in other currencies, primarily currencies in Europe and Asia. As a response to the risks of changes in value of foreign currency denominated transactions, we may enter into foreign currency forward contracts or other instruments to mitigate these risks. Our foreign currency forward contracts reduce, but do not eliminate, the impact of currency exchange rate movements. For example, we do not execute forward contracts in all currencies in which we conduct business or hedge the full amount of each exposure identified. The translation of these foreign currency denominated transactions will impact net revenues, operating expenses and net income as a result of fluctuations in the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies. Accordingly, such amounts denominated in foreign currencies may fluctuate in value and produce significant earnings and cash flow volatility. For example, as a result of our cash flow hedging program, in the first, second, and third quarters of 2011, we reduced operating income by $0.5 million, $2.4 million, and $0.3 million, respectively, as compared to increasing operating income in the fourth quarter of 2011, the first, second, third, and fourth quarters of 2010 by $0.3 million, $0.5 million, $1.7 million, $1.4 million, and $1.0 million, respectively.

Delays or loss of government contracts or failure to obtain required government certifications could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We sell our products indirectly and provide services to governmental entities in accordance with certain regulated contractual arrangements. While reporting and compliance with government contracts is both our responsibility and the responsibility of our partner, our or our partner’s lack of reporting or compliance could have an impact on the sales of our products to government agencies. Further, the United States Federal government has certain certification and product requirements for products sold to them. If we are unable to meet applicable certification or other requirements within the timeframes specified by the United States Federal government, or if our competitors have certifications for competitive products for which we are not yet certified, our revenues and results of operations would be adversely impacted.

We are required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and any adverse results from such evaluation could result in a loss of investor confidence in our financial reports and have an adverse effect on our stock price.

Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 404”), we are required to furnish a report by our management on our internal control over financial reporting. Such report contains, among other matters, an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of our fiscal year, including a statement as to whether or not our internal control over financial reporting is effective. This assessment must include disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by management. While we were able to assert in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of

December 31, 2011, we must continue to monitor and assess our internal control over financial reporting. In addition, our control framework may suffer if we are unable to adapt our control framework appropriately as we continue to grow our business. If we are unable to assert in any future reporting period that our internal control over financial reporting is effective (or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls), we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would have an adverse effect on our stock price.

Changing laws and increasingly complex corporate governance and public disclosure requirements could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.

Changing laws, regulations and standards, including those relating to corporate governance, anticorruption and public disclosure such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the UK Anti-Bribery Act, and newly enacted SEC regulations, have created additional compliance requirements for companies such as ours. Our efforts to comply with these requirements have resulted in, and are likely to continue to result in, an increase in expenses and a diversion of management’s time from other business activities. While we believe we are compliant with laws and regulations in jurisdictions where we do business, we must continue to monitor and assess our compliance in the future. In addition, given the growth and expansion of our business, we must continue to expand our compliance procedures. Any failures in these procedures in the future could result in time consuming and costly activities, potential fines and penalties, and diversion of management time, all of which could hurt our business.

Changes in existing financial accounting standards or practices may adversely affect our results of operations.

Changes in existing accounting rules or practices, new accounting pronouncements, or varying interpretations of current accounting pronouncements could have a significant adverse effect on our results of operations or result in changes to our business operations in support of such changes. Further, such changes could potentially affect our reporting of transactions completed before such changes are effective.

Changes in our tax rates could adversely affect our future results.

We are a U.S. based multinational company subject to tax in multiple U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. Unanticipated changes in our tax rates could affect our future results of operations. Our future effective tax rates, which are difficult to predict, could be unfavorably affected by changes in, or interpretation of, tax rules and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we do business, by unanticipated decreases in the amount of revenue or earnings in countries with low statutory tax rates, by lapses of the availability of the U.S. research and development tax credit which has occurred for 2012, or by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities. Further, the accounting for stock compensation expense in accordance with ASC 718 and uncertain tax positions in accordance with ASC 740 could result in more unpredictability and variability to our future effective tax rates.

We are also subject to the periodic examination of our income tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities, and in some cases, we have received additional tax assessments. We regularly assess the likelihood of adverse outcomes resulting from these examinations to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes. We may underestimate the outcome of such examinations which, if significant, would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Business interruptions could adversely affect our operations.

Our operations are vulnerable to interruption by fire, earthquake, or other natural disaster, quarantines or other disruptions associated with infectious diseases, national catastrophe, terrorist activities, war, ongoing disturbances in the Middle East, an attack on Israel, disruptions in our computing and communications

infrastructure due to power loss, telecommunications failure, human error, physical or electronic security breaches and computer viruses (which could leave us vulnerable to the loss of our intellectual property or the confidential information of our customers, disruption of our business activities and potential litigation), and other events beyond our control. We have a business continuity program that is based on enterprise risk assessment which addresses the impact of natural, technological, man-made and geopolitical disasters on our critical business functions. This plan helps facilitate the continuation of critical business activities in the event of a disaster but may not prove to be sufficient. In addition, our business interruption insurance may not be sufficient to compensate us for losses that may occur, and any losses or damages incurred by us could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

In the case of our managed services business, any circuit failure or downtime could affect a significant portion of our customers. Since our ability to attract and retain customers depends on our ability to provide customers with highly reliable service, even minor interruptions could harm our reputation or cause us to miss contractual obligations, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results and our business.

Our cash flow could fluctuate due to the potential difficulty of collecting our receivables and managing our inventories.

Over the past few years, we have made significant investments in EMEA and Asia to expand our business in these regions. In EMEA and Asia, as with other international regions, credit terms are typically longer than in the United States. Therefore, as Europe, Asia and other international regions have grown as a percentage of our revenues, accounts receivable balances have increased as compared to previous years, and we expect this trend to continue. As a result, we have seen our days sales outstanding increase. For example, our days sales outstanding in the fourth quarter of 2011 was 49 days as compared to 41 days in the fourth quarter of 2010. Although from time to time we have been able to largely offset the effects of these influences through additional incentives offered to channel partners at the end of each quarter in the form of prepay discounts, these additional incentives have lowered our profitability. In addition, economic uncertainty or a downturn in technology spending in the United States and other countries could restrict the availability of capital, which may delay our collections from our channel partners beyond our historical experience or may cause companies to file for bankruptcy. Either a delay in collections or bankruptcy would harm our cash flow and days sales outstanding performance.

In addition, as we manage our business and focus on shorter shipment lead times for certain of our products and implement freight cost reduction programs, our inventory levels may increase, resulting in decreased inventory turns that could negatively impact our cash flow. We believe inventory turns will continue to fluctuate depending upon our ability to reduce lead times, as well as due to changes in anticipated product demand and product mix and a greater mix of ocean freight versus air freight to reduce freight costs.

Our stock price fluctuates as a result of the conduct of our business and stock market fluctuations and may be extremely volatile.

The market price of our common stock has from time to time experienced significant fluctuations. The market price of our common stock may be significantly affected by a variety of factors, including:

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statements or changes in opinions, ratings or earnings estimates made by brokerage firms or industry analysts relating to the market in which we do business, including competitors, partners, suppliers or telecommunications industry leaders or relating to us specifically;

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the announcement of new products, product enhancements or acquisitions by us or by our competitors;

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technological innovations by us or our competitors;

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quarterly variations in our results of operations;

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failure of our future operating results to meet expectations of stock market analysts or investors or any financial guidance we may provide to the market, which is inherently subject to greater risk and uncertainty as expectations increase;

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general market conditions or market conditions specific to technology industries; and

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domestic and international macroeconomic factors.

In addition, the stock market has in the past experienced significant price and volume fluctuations related to general economic, political and market conditions. These fluctuations have had a substantial effect on the market prices for many high technology companies like us and are often unrelated to the operating performance of the specific companies. As with the stock of many other public companies, the market price of our common stock continues to be volatile. This excessive volatility in our stock price is unpredictable and may continue for an indefinite period of time.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

Not applicable.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

Our properties consist primarily of leased facilities for sales, research and development, logistics, administrative, and technical support personnel. Our global headquarters are currently located in Pleasanton, California in facilities that accommodate our executive and administrative operations. We occupy additional facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area in San Jose, Tracy, and Santa Clara, California to house research and development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and customer support operations. We have executed a 10-year lease on a new facility in San Jose, California, and will be consolidating our global headquarters and San Jose and Santa Clara, California operations into one new location in the second quarter of 2012.

We also occupy facilities in various U.S. locations, including Andover, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Georgia; Rosemont, Illinois; Herndon, Virginia; Irvine, California; New York, New York; Seattle, Washington, and Dallas, Texas.

Outside of the U.S, we occupy facilities in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.

The following table presents the approximate square footage of our facilities as of December 31, 2011:


Location	Leased Square Footage (Approximate)1
Americas		1,051,000
EMEA		223,780
APAC		225,910

Total		1,500,690

1	Leased Square Footage excludes executive suites and inactive facilities

Our facilities are leased pursuant to agreements that expire beginning in 2012 and extend out to 2021. See Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. We believe that our current facilities are adequate to meet our needs for the foreseeable future and that suitable additional or alternative space will be available in the future on commercially reasonable terms as needed.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we are involved in claims and legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of business. We expect that the number and significance of these matters will increase as our business expands. In particular, we expect to face an increasing number of patent and other intellectual property claims as the number of products and competitors in our industry grows and the functionality of video, voice, data and web conferencing products overlap. Any claims or proceedings against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, require significant amounts of management time, result in the diversion of significant operational resources, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements which, if required, may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. If we believe that a loss arising from these matters is probable and can be reasonably estimated, we record a reserve for the amount of the loss. As additional information becomes available, any potential liability related to these matters is assessed and the estimates are revised. Based on currently available information, we do not believe that the ultimate outcomes of these unresolved matters, individually and in the aggregate, are likely to have a material adverse effect on our financial position, liquidity or results of operations. However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and our view of these matters may change in the future. Were an unfavorable outcome to occur, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on our financial position and results of operations or liquidity for the period in which the unfavorable outcome occurs or becomes probable, and potentially in future periods.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Price Range of Common Stock

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol PLCM. The following table presents the high and low sale prices for our common stock for the periods indicated, as adjusted for the two-for-one stock split effective July 1, 2011.


	High		Low
Year Ended December 31, 2010:
First Quarter	$	17.07	$	11.08
Second Quarter		16.80		13.89
Third Quarter		16.20		12.91
Fourth Quarter		20.46		12.69
Year Ended December 31, 2011:
First Quarter	$	26.08	$	19.08
Second Quarter		32.49		22.73
Third Quarter		34.30		18.09
Fourth Quarter		22.74		14.45
Year Ending December 31, 2012:
First Quarter (through February 10, 2012)	$	22.00	$	15.61

On February 10, 2012, the last reported sale price of our common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market was $20.81 per share. As of December 31, 2011, there were approximately 1,097 holders of record of our common stock. Because many of our shares of common stock are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by these record holders.

Dividend Policy

We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock and do not anticipate, at this time, paying any cash dividends on our capital stock in the near future. We currently intend to retain any future earnings for use in our business, future acquisitions or future purchases of our common stock.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

There were no unregistered sales of equity securities in fiscal 2011.

Share Repurchases

The following table provides a month-to-month summary of the stock repurchase activity based upon settlement date during the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011:


Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased(1)(2)		Average Price Paid per Share(1)(2)		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plan(2)		Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Plan(2)
10/1/11 to 10/31/11		194	$	17.49		—	$	98,042,000
11/1/11 to 11/30/11		1,187,119	$	18.47		1,082,129	$	78,053,000
12/1/11 to 12/31/11		3,642	$	16.88		—	$	78,053,000

Total		1,190,955	$	18.47		1,082,129

(1)	Includes 108,826 shares repurchased in October through December 2011 to satisfy tax withholding obligations as a result of the vesting of performance shares and restricted stock units.

(2)

In May 2008, we announced that our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase plan under which Polycom at its discretion may purchase shares in the open market from time to time with an aggregate value of up to $300.0 million (“the 2008 share repurchase plan”). As of December 31, 2011, the Company was authorized to purchase up to approximately $78.0 million in the open market under the 2008 share repurchase plan. These shares of common stock have been retired and reclassified as authorized and unissued shares. The 2008 share repurchase plan does not have an expiration date but is limited by the dollar amount authorized.

Stock Performance Graph

The performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.

The stock price performance graph depicted below reflects a five-year comparison of the cumulative total shareholder return (change in stock price plus reinvestment dividends) on Polycom common stock with the cumulative total returns of the Nasdaq Composite Index and the Morgan Stanley High Technology Index. The performance graph covers the period from December 31, 2006 through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.

The graph assumes that $100 was invested on December 31, 2006, in the Company’s common stock or in each of indexes and that all dividends were reinvested. No cash dividends have been declared on Polycom common stock.

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The stock price performance shown on the graph is not indicative of future price performance. Information used in the graph was obtained from a third party investment research firm, a source believed to be reliable, but the Company is not responsible for any errors or omissions in such information.

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes thereto and with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which are included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009			2008		2007
	(in thousands, except per share data)
Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
Product revenues	$	1,207,787		$	1,010,955		$	791,508		$	913,760	$	806,482
Service revenues		288,011			207,534			175,476			155,560		123,426

Total revenues		1,495,798			1,218,489			966,984			1,069,320		929,908

Cost of revenues
Cost of product revenues		481,634			401,319			335,696			374,119		322,988
Cost of service revenues		116,808			101,220			82,312			76,179		61,599

Total cost of revenues		598,442			502,539			418,008			450,298		384,587

Gross profit		897,356			715,950			548,976			619,022		545,321

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		435,614			387,208			285,312			303,436		242,510
Research and development		201,067			148,991			117,575			135,288		139,011
General and administrative		82,901			74,661			54,011			60,201		60,994
Acquisition-related costs		9,688			—			—			162		4,258
Purchased in-process research and development		—			—			—			—		9,400
Amortization and impairment of purchased intangibles		9,831			5,647			5,800			7,098		11,546
Restructuring costs		9,396			8,139			15,935			10,316		410
Litigation reserves and payments		—			1,235			700			7,401		—

Total operating expenses		748,497			625,881			479,333			523,902		468,129

Operating income		148,859			90,069			69,643			95,120		77,192
Interest and other income (expense), net		(1,639	)		(7,772	)		(2,087	)		2,426		10,508

Income before provision for income taxes		147,220			82,297			67,556			97,546		87,700
Provision for income taxes		11,406			13,888			17,677			21,850		24,819

Net income	$	135,814		$	68,409		$	49,879		$	75,696	$	62,881

Basic net income per share	$	0.77		$	0.40		$	0.30		$	0.44	$	0.35

Diluted net income per share	$	0.75		$	0.39		$	0.29		$	0.43	$	0.33

Weighted average shares outstanding for basic net income per share		176,426			170,662			167,999			171,231		181,756
Weighted average shares outstanding for diluted net income per share		181,195			176,370			171,118			174,491		188,781


	December 31,
	2011		2010		2009		2008		2007
	(in thousands)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments	$	534,867	$	494,342	$	454,784	$	318,076	$	342,223
Working capital		594,400		551,402		469,162		383,723		400,807
Total assets		1,844,805		1,547,405		1,385,901		1,277,684		1,321,938
Total long-term obligations		115,524		86,753		88,627		95,260		80,890
Total stockholders’ equity		1,370,116		1,174,970		1,053,853		968,342		1,023,994

Note that our results of operations include the results of businesses acquired from their acquisition dates.

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

YOU SHOULD READ THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND RELATED NOTES. EXCEPT FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 27A OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND SECTION 21E OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. WHEN USED IN THIS REPORT, THE WORDS “MAY,” “BELIEVE,” “COULD,” “ANTICIPATE,” “WOULD,” “MIGHT,” “PLAN,” “EXPECT,” “WILL,” “INTEND,” “POTENTIAL,” “OBJECTIVE,” “STRATEGY,” “GOAL,” “SHOULD,” “VISION,” “DESIGNED,”AND SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS OR THE NEGATIVE OF THESE TERMS ARE INTENDED TO IDENTIFY FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS, INCLUDING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, STATEMENTS REGARDING OUR ANTICIPATED PRODUCTS, CUSTOMER AND GEOGRAPHIC REVENUE LEVELS AND MIX, GROSS MARGINS, OPERATING COSTS AND EXPENSES AND OUR CHANNEL INVENTORY LEVELS, INVOLVE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES. OUR ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THOSE PROJECTED IN THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. FACTORS THAT MIGHT CAUSE FUTURE RESULTS TO DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE DISCUSSED IN THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE DISCUSSED IN “RISK FACTORS” IN THIS DOCUMENT, AS WELL AS OTHER INFORMATION FOUND ELSEWHERE IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K.

Overview

We are a global leader in standards-based unified communications (“UC”) solutions and a leading provider of telepresence, video, voice and infrastructure solutions based on open standards. With Polycom RealPresence video and voice solutions, from infrastructure to endpoints, people all over the world can collaborate face-to-face without being in the same physical location. Individuals and teams can connect, solve, decide, and create through a high-definition visual experience from their desktops, meeting rooms, classrooms, mobile devices, web browsers, and specialized solutions such as video carts for bedside conferences in hospitals between patients and remote physicians. By removing the barriers of distance and time, connecting experts to where they are needed most, and creating greater trust and understanding through visual connection, Polycom enables people to make better decisions faster and to increase their productivity while saving time and money and being environmentally responsible.

Important drivers for the adoption of Polycom’s UC solutions include:

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growth of video as a preferred method of communication everywhere, including major growth markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China,

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increasing presence of video on the desktop,

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growth of video-capable mobile devices (including tablets and smartphones),

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expansion of social business tools with integrated web-based video collaboration,

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virtualization and the move to the cloud,

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adoption of UC by small and medium businesses and governments globally,

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growth of the number of teleworkers globally,

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emergence of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs in businesses of all sizes,

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demand for UC solutions for business-to-business communications and the move of consumer applications into the business space, and

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continued commitment by organizations and individuals to reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by choosing remote connectivity over travel.

In 2011, we made strategic investments and executed on five key strategic initiatives to capture the UC collaboration market opportunity and to optimize our position as the partner of choice for global communications providers and as the partner of choice for our customers. These initiatives included:

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enabling cloud-based UC solutions,

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mobile UC solutions,

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leveraging our UC ecosystem partners,

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the delivery and propagation of our Polycom RealPresence platform, and

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continued delivery of solutions through our UC innovation engine.

Revenues for 2011 were $1.5 billion, an increase of $277.3 million, or 23%, over 2010. Revenues increased across all of our segments in 2011 as compared to 2010, driven primarily by investments made in our go-to-market capabilities. Our Americas, EMEA, and APAC segment revenues, which accounted for 51%, 25%, and 24%, respectively, of our revenues in 2011, increased by 15%, 25%, and 40% respectively, as compared to 2010. See Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on our segments, including a summary of our segment revenues, segment contribution margin and segment accounts receivable. The discussion of results of operations at the consolidated level is also followed by a discussion of results of operations by segment for the three years ended December 31, 2011.

Gross margins increased 1 percentage point in 2011 as compared to 2010 primarily due to higher services gross margins while product gross margins remained relatively flat. Services gross margins increased in all of our geographic segments primarily as a result of increased revenues from our maintenance services and decreased costs as a percentage of revenue associated with the delivery of service due to higher productivity of services employees, improvements in product quality and lower outside services.

Operating margins increased in 2011 over 2010 primarily due to operating expenses decreasing and gross margin increasing as a percentage of revenue in 2011 as compared to 2010. The decrease in operating expenses as a percentage of revenue resulted primarily from decreases in sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue due to increased productivity of our sales force and lower general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue.

During 2011, we generated approximately $299.6 million in cash flow from operating activities which, after the impact of cash paid for acquisitions, share repurchases, and other financing and investing activities described in further detail under “Liquidity and Capital Resources,” resulted in a $51.3 million net increase in our total cash and cash equivalents.

During 2011, we completed three business combinations. On March 21, 2011, we acquired Accordent, a privately held video content management and delivery solutions company. On July 27, 2011, we acquired the assets of the HPVC business, including the Halo Products and Managed Services business. On October 14, 2011, we acquired ViVu, a privately-held video collaboration software company. The total net cash paid in 2011 on these business combinations was $163.6 million. We have included the financial results of Accordent, HPVC and ViVu in our Consolidated Financial Statements from their respective dates of acquisition.

In June, 2011, our Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split of our outstanding shares of common stock effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend (“the stock split”). The stock split entitled each stockholder of record at the close of business on June 15, 2011 to receive one additional share of common stock for every one share of common stock owned as of that date, paid by our transfer agent on July 1, 2011. The par value of our common stock was maintained at the pre-split amount of $0.0005 per share. All share and per share data have been restated as if the stock split had occurred as of the earliest period presented. As adjusted for the stock split, our weighted average shares outstanding and earnings per share for the past five years are as follows:


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009		2008		2007
	(in thousands, except per share data)
Basic net income per share	$	0.77	$	0.40	$	0.30	$	0.44	$	0.35

Diluted net income per share	$	0.75	$	0.39	$	0.29	$	0.43	$	0.33

Weighted average shares outstanding for basic net income per share		176,426		170,662		167,999		171,231		181,756
Weighted average shares outstanding for diluted net income per share		181,195		176,370		171,118		174,491		188,781

Moving forward into 2012, we have developed a strategic plan that is designed to capture the emerging network effect of UC adoption by enterprise, public sector, service providers, SMBs, mobile and remote employees, and social business users. We believe we are uniquely positioned as the UC ecosystem partner of choice through our strategic partnerships, support of open standards, innovative technology and customer-centric go-to-market capabilities. Central to our 2012 strategic plan are five strategic imperatives:

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Cloud-Based UC Solutions;

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Mobile UC Solutions;

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Focused Ecosystem Partnerships;

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RealPresence Platform (an expansion of our former UC Intelligent Core Platform); and

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Growth Markets.

We expect these strategic imperatives to drive our key initiatives and spending in 2012.

Results of Operations for the Three Years Ended December 31, 2011

The following table sets forth, as a percentage of total revenues (unless indicated otherwise), consolidated statements of operations data for the periods indicated.


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Revenues
Product revenues		81	%		83	%		82	%
Service revenues		19	%		17	%		18	%

Total revenues		100	%		100	%		100	%
Cost of revenues
Cost of product revenues as % of product revenues		40	%		40	%		42	%
Cost of service revenues as % of service revenues		41	%		49	%		47	%

Total cost of revenues		40	%		41	%		43	%

Gross profit		60	%		59	%		57	%

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		29	%		32	%		29	%
Research and development		13	%		12	%		12	%
General and administrative		5	%		6	%		6	%
Acquisition-related costs		1	%		—	%		—	%
Amortization of purchased intangibles		1	%		—	%		1	%
Restructuring costs		1	%		1	%		2	%
Litigation reserves and payments		—	%		—	%		—	%

Total operating expenses		50	%		51	%		50	%

Operating income		10	%		8	%		7	%
Interest and other income (expense), net		—	%		(1	)%		—	%

Income before provision for income taxes		10	%		7	%		7	%
Provision for income taxes		1	%		1	%		2	%

Net income		9	%		6	%		5	%

Revenues

We manage our business primarily on a geographic basis, organized into three geographic segments. Our net revenues, which include product and service revenues, for each segment are summarized in the following table:


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010
Americas	$	756,074		$	656,432		$	536,682			15	%		22	%
% of revenues		51	%		54	%		55	%
EMEA	$	376,579		$	302,118		$	240,226			25	%		26	%
% of revenues		25	%		25	%		25	%
APAC	$	363,145		$	259,939		$	190,076			40	%		37	%
% of revenues		24	%		21	%		20	%

Total revenues	$	1,495,798		$	1,218,489		$	966,984			23	%		26	%

Total revenues for 2011 were $1.5 billion, an increase of $277.3 million, or 23%, over 2010, driven by increases in both product and services revenues. Product revenues increased by $196.8 million or 19%, and services revenue increased by $80.5 million or 39% in 2011 as compared with 2010.

The increase in revenues primarily reflected increases in revenues across all segments in 2011 as compared with 2010, most predominantly in the APAC segment, primarily as a result of investments made in our go-to-market capabilities which resulted in increased sales volumes while average selling prices remained relatively stable and to a lesser extent driven by revenue from the HPVC acquisition in the third quarter of 2011. Our Americas, EMEA, and APAC segment revenues increased by $99.6 million or 15%, $74.5 million or 25%, and $103.2 million or 40%, respectively in 2011 as compared to 2010. These increases were driven by increased revenues across many of our key geographic markets, including the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, Russia, India, the Nordics, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Total revenues for 2010 were $1.2 billion, an increase of $251.5 million, or 26%, over 2009, driven by increases in both product and services revenues. Product revenues increased by $219.4 million or 28% and services revenue increased by $32.1 million or 18% in 2010 as compared with 2009.

The increase in revenues primarily reflected increases in revenues across all segments in 2010 as compared with 2009 as a result of investments made in our go-to-market capabilities and improved global economic conditions in 2010 which increased sales volumes, while average selling prices remained relatively stable. Our Americas, EMEA, and APAC segment revenues increased by $119.8 million or 22%, $61.9 million or 26%, and $69.8 million or 37%, respectively in 2010 as compared to 2009. These increases were driven by increased revenues across many of our key geographic markets, including the United States, China, France, Germany, Russia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, one channel partner in our Americas segment accounted for more than 10% of our total net revenues. We believe it is unlikely that the loss of any of our channel partners would have a long-term material adverse effect on our consolidated net revenues or segment net revenues as we believe end-users would likely purchase our products from a different channel partner. However, a loss of any one of these channel partners could have a material adverse impact during the transition period.

In addition to the primary view on a geographic basis, we also track revenues by groups of similar products and services for various purposes. The following table presents revenues for groups of similar products and services:


	Year Ended December 31,						Increase From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011		2010		2009		2011			2010
UC group systems	$	971,752	$	795,808	$	621,910		22	%		28	%
UC personal devices		269,283		239,065		200,794		13	%		19	%
Network infrastructure		254,763		183,616		144,280		39	%		27	%

Total revenues	$	1,495,798	$	1,218,489	$	966,984		23	%		26	%

UC group systems include all immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems products and the related service elements. The increase in UC group systems of $175.9 million or 22% in 2011 over 2010 was primarily driven by increases in sales of our group video and our immersive telepresence products and related services and, to a lesser extent, increases in revenues from our group voice products and related services. While our UC group systems revenues have grown sequentially and year-over-year in 2011, we have recently seen a slowdown in growth of our group video revenues, primarily in North America. The increases in our immersive telepresence products and related services in 2011, as compared to 2010, were partially driven by the HPVC acquisition in the third quarter of 2011. The increase in UC group systems of $173.9 million or 28% in 2010 over 2009 was primarily driven by increases in sales of our group video and group voice products and services in all our geographic segments.

UC personal devices include desktop video devices, desktop voice and wireless LAN products and the related service elements. The increase in UC personal devices of $30.2 million or 13% in 2011 over 2010 was primarily due to increased sales of our desktop voice products in all our geographic segments, driven by the

continued adoption of VoIP, partially offset by decreased revenue from wireless products. While our UC personal devices revenues have grown year-over-year in 2011, our UC personal devices revenues declined sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2011 and our quarterly year-over-year growth rate decreased to 5%, driven primarily by lower revenues in North America. The increase in UC personal devices of $38.3 million or 19% in 2010 over 2009 was primarily due to increased sales of our desktop voice products in all our geographic segments, driven by the continued adoption of VoIP.

Network infrastructure includes our network infrastructure hardware and software products and the related service elements. The increase in network infrastructure of $71.1 million or 39% in 2011 over 2010 was driven by increased revenues from our network infrastructure products in all our segments. The increase in network infrastructure of $39.3 million or 27% in 2010 over 2009 was driven by increased revenues from our network infrastructure products in all our geographic segments.

Cost of Revenues and Gross Margins


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase (Decrease) From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011		2010
Product cost of revenues	$	481,634		$	401,319		$	335,696			20%		20%
% of product revenues		40	%		40	%		42	%		—		(2) pts
Product gross margins		60	%		60	%		58	%		—		2 pts
Service cost of revenues	$	116,808		$	101,220		$	82,312			15%		23%
% of service revenues		41	%		49	%		47	%		(8) pts		2 pts
Service gross margins		59	%		51	%		53	%		8 pts		(2) pts
Total cost of revenues	$	598,442		$	502,539		$	418,008			19%		20%
% of total revenues		40	%		41	%		43	%		(1) pt		(2) pts
Total gross margin		60	%		59	%		57	%		1 pt		2 pts

Cost of Product Revenues and Product Gross Margins

Cost of product revenues consists primarily of contract manufacturer costs, including material and direct labor, our manufacturing organization, tooling depreciation, warranty expense, freight expense, royalty payments, amortization of certain intangible assets, stock-based compensation costs and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. Cost of product revenues and product gross margins included charges for stock-based compensation of $2.8 million, $2.6 million, and $1.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively. Cost of product revenues at the segment level consists of the standard cost of product revenues and does not include items such as warranty expense, royalties, and the allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs.

Overall, product gross margins remained essentially flat in 2011 as compared to 2010 across all our segments. Overhead absorption costs and other cost of sales such as freight, warranty and royalties are not allocated to our segments.

Overall, product gross margins increased by 2 percentage points in 2010 as compared to 2009, due to higher sales volumes, better management of overhead costs and increased use of ocean freight in 2010 which lowered the cost of product revenues. Overhead absorption costs and other cost of sales such as freight, warranty and royalties are not allocated to our segments. Product gross margin remained flat in our Americas segment and decreased in both our EMEA and APAC segments. The decrease in EMEA segment gross margins was primarily due to foreign exchange fluctuations in British pounds. The decrease in APAC segment gross margins was primarily due to a shift in product mix and increased discounting.

in inventory and an increase in inventory turns reflect our ability to manage lead times in fulfilling orders. Inventory turns in the future may fluctuate depending on our ability to reduce lead times, as well as changes in product mix. Our inventory turns may also decrease in the future as a result of the flexibility required to respond to the increased demands of our growing business and the sustainability of the global economic recovery.

Cost of Service Revenues and Service Gross Margins

Cost of service revenues consists primarily of material and direct labor, including stock-based compensation costs, depreciation, and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. The majority of our services revenue is related to maintenance agreements on new product sales, as well as the renewal of existing maintenance agreements. Historically, services have had a lower gross margin than our product gross margins. Cost of service revenues and service gross margins included charges for stock-based compensation of $3.9 million, $3.9 million, and $2.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

Overall, service gross margins increased by 8 percentage points in 2011 over 2010. Services gross margins increased in all of our geographic segments primarily as a result of increased revenues from our maintenance services and decreased costs as a percentage of revenue associated with the delivery of services due to higher productivity of services employees, improvements in product quality and lower outside services. Our service gross margins generally experience some fluctuations due to various factors such as the timing of contract initiations in our renewals and the mix of service offerings.

Overall, service gross margins decreased by 2 percentage points in 2010 over 2009 primarily as a result of investments made to expand our professional services practice as well as an increase in the mix of professional services revenues as a percentage of our total services revenues. Generally, professional services have a lower overall gross margin than our maintenance services.

Total Cost of Revenues and Total Gross Margins

Overall, total gross margins as a percentage of revenues increased by 1 percentage point in 2011 as compared to 2010. The increase in total gross margins was driven primarily by increases in our services gross margins, as discussed under Cost of Service Revenues and Service Gross Margins.

We expect gross margins to remain relatively flat in the near term, as compared to 2011. Forecasting future gross margin percentages is difficult, and there are a number of risks related to our ability to maintain or improve our current gross margin levels. Our cost of revenues as a percentage of revenue can vary significantly based upon a number of factors such as the following: uncertainties surrounding revenue levels, including future pricing and/or potential discounts as a result of the economy or in response to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar in our international markets, and related production level variances; competition; the extent to which new services sales accompany our product sales, as well as maintenance renewal rates; changes in technology; changes in product mix; variability of stock-based compensation costs; the potential of royalties to third parties; utilization of our professional services personnel as we develop our professional services practice and as we make investments to expand our professional services offerings; increasing costs for freight and repair costs; our ability to achieve greater efficiencies in the installations of our immersive telepresence products; manufacturing efficiencies of subcontractors; manufacturing and purchase price variances; warranty and recall costs and the timing of sales. In addition, we may experience higher prices on commodity components that are included in our products. In order to control expenses in any given quarter, we have taken actions to reduce costs such as imposing travel restrictions, postponing salary increases, requesting employees to use paid time off or implementing other cost control measures. Such actions may not be able to be implemented in a timely manner or may not be successful in completely offsetting the impact of lower-than-anticipated revenues.

Sales and Marketing Expenses


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase (Decrease) From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010
Expenses	$	435,614		$	387,208		$	285,312			13	%		36	%
% of Total Revenues		29	%		32	%		29	%		(3	)pts		3	pts

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of salaries and commissions for our sales force, including stock-based compensation costs, advertising and promotional expenses, product marketing expenses, and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. Sales and marketing expenses, except for direct sales and marketing expenses, are not allocated to our segments. Sales and marketing expenses included charges for stock-based compensation of $27.4 million, $26.6 million, and $10.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

Sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenues decreased by 3 percentage points but increased in absolute dollars by 13% in 2011, as compared to 2010, due primarily to increased headcount and compensation-related costs, including commissions. Sales and marketing headcount increased by 17% from December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2011. Travel and entertainment expenses, depreciation and facilities allocations also increased as a result of headcount increases, as well as due to the expansion of our demonstration center capabilities in support of our go-to-market strategy.

Sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenues increased by 3 percentage points and increased in absolute dollars by 36% in 2010 as compared to 2009, due primarily to increased headcount and compensation-related costs, including commissions and stock-based compensation charges, as a result of investments made in our go-to-market strategy in 2010 which resulted in sales and marketing headcount increasing by approximately 23% in 2010 over 2009. Depreciation and facilities allocations also increased as a result of headcount increases, as well as due to the expansion of our demonstration center capabilities in support of our go-to-market strategy. Other factors contributing to the increase in sales and marketing expenses included increased travel and entertainment expenses and recruitment and training costs as a result of increased headcount, increased spending on marketing programs, and the reinstatement of annual merit increases and incentive programs in the third quarter of 2010.

We expect our sales and marketing expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars in the near term as a result of incurring costs to recruit and hire new sales and marketing personnel, and expenses will also likely increase in the future as revenues increase. We will also make additional investments in sales and marketing in order to extend our market reach and grow our business in support of our key initiatives surrounding our strategic partnerships as part of our UC ecosystem and developing and marketing cloud-based and mobile UC solutions, our RealPresence network infrastructure products and other innovations that are expected throughout 2012.

Forecasting sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue is highly dependent on expected revenue levels and could vary significantly depending on actual revenues achieved in any given quarter. Marketing expenses will also fluctuate depending upon the timing and extent of marketing programs as we market new products and also depending upon the timing of trade shows. Sales and marketing expenses may also fluctuate due to increased international expenses and the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. In order to control expenses in any given quarter, we have taken actions to reduce costs such as imposing travel restrictions, postponing salary increases, requesting employees to use paid time off or implementing other cost control measures. Such actions may not be able to be implemented in a timely manner or may not be successful in completely offsetting the impact of lower than anticipated revenues.

Research and Development Expenses


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010
Expenses	$	201,067		$	148,991		$	117,575			35	%		27	%
% of Total Revenues		13	%		12	%		12	%		1	pt		—

Research and development expenses are expensed as incurred and consist primarily of compensation costs, including stock-based compensation costs, outside services, expensed materials, depreciation and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. Research and development costs are not allocated to our segments. Research and development expenses included charges for stock-based compensation of $15.4 million, $10.3 million, and $7.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

Research and development expenses increased in 2011 by $52.1 million or 35%, as compared to 2010, and increased by 1 percentage point, as a percentage of revenues, in 2011 as compared to 2010. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to increased compensation costs associated with increased headcount and increased development expenses in support of our key strategic initiatives, including our strategic partnerships as part of our UC ecosystem, cloud-based and mobile UC solutions and RealPresence network infrastructure products. Research and development headcount increased by 38% as of December 31, 2011, as compared to December 31, 2010. Depreciation and overhead allocations also increased in 2011 over 2010 as a result of headcount increases and increased capital investments in support of our development projects.

Research and development expenses increased in 2010 by $31.4 million or 27%, while remaining flat as a percentage of revenues. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to increased headcount and increased development expenses in support of our strategic investment plan. Research and development expenses also increased as a result of the reinstatement of annual merit increases and incentive programs in the third quarter of 2010 and increased stock-based compensation charges.

We believe that innovation and technological leadership is critical to our future success, and we are committed to continuing a significant level of research and development to develop new technologies and products to combat competitive pressures, such as the new Scalable Video Coding standard to address the device, application and network requirements of mobile, SMB and consumer networks. We are also investing more heavily in research and development as a result of increased business opportunities with strategic partners, mobile and service provider customers as a result of our key strategic initiatives in these areas. We are also investing in key vertical markets such as the U.S. federal government. We expect that research and development expenses in absolute dollars will increase in the near term but will fluctuate depending on the timing and number of development activities in any given quarter. Research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue is highly dependent on expected revenue levels and could vary significantly depending on actual revenues achieved in any given quarter. In order to control expenses in any given quarter, we have from time to time taken actions to reduce costs such as imposing travel restrictions, postponing salary increases, requesting employees to use paid time off or implementing other cost control measures. Such actions may not be able to be implemented in a timely manner or may not be successful in completely offsetting the impact of lower than anticipated revenues.

General and Administrative Expenses


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase (Decrease) From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010
Expenses	$	82,901		$	74,661		$	54,011			11	%		38	%
% of Total Revenues		5	%		6	%		6	%		(1	)pt		—

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation costs, including stock-based compensation costs, professional service fees, allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs, and litigation costs. General and administrative expenses are not allocated to our segments. General and administrative expenses included charges for stock-based compensation of $15.7 million, $12.8 million, and $7.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

General and administrative expenses increased in absolute dollars, but decreased by 1 percentage point as a percentage of revenues in 2011, as compared to 2010. The primary driver of the increase in absolute dollars was related to the 14% increase in headcount and related increases in compensation and other headcount-related expenses, including increased overhead allocations. This increase was partially offset by decreased expenses for legal and outside services. Further, in 2010 we incurred severance, legal and other costs associated with our CEO transition in May 2010, which did not reoccur in 2011.

General and administrative expenses increased in absolute dollars and remained flat as a percentage of revenues in 2010, as compared to 2009. Primary drivers of the increase were related to increased stock-based compensation charges in 2010 over 2009 and severance, legal and other costs associated with the CEO transition that occurred in May 2010. General and administrative expenses also increased due to the reinstatement of annual merit increases and incentive programs in the third quarter of 2010. The remaining increase in general and administrative expenses in absolute dollars was primarily due to increased legal fees and other outside services, and to a lesser extent, increases in headcount and headcount-related expenses.

Significant future charges due to costs associated with litigation or uncollectability of our receivables could increase our general and administrative expenses and negatively affect our profitability in the quarter in which they are recorded. Additionally, predicting the timing of litigation and bad debt expense associated with uncollectible receivables is difficult. The increase in international revenues has resulted in longer credit terms and increased credit risk, which could result in an increased level of bad debt expense in the future. Future general and administrative expense increases or decreases in absolute dollars are difficult to predict due to the lack of visibility of certain costs, including legal costs associated with defending claims against us, as well as legal costs associated with asserting and enforcing our intellectual property portfolio and other factors.

We expect that our general and administrative expenses will increase in absolute dollar amounts in the near term, but could fluctuate as we make investments in enhancements to our financial and operating systems and other costs related to supporting a larger company, increased costs associated with regulatory requirements, and our continued investments in international regions. General and administrative expenses may also increase as a result of additional investments required to support our key strategic initiatives. In order to control expenses in any given quarter, we have taken actions to reduce costs such as imposing travel restrictions, postponing salary increases, requesting employees to use paid time off or implementing other cost control measures. Such actions may not be able to be implemented in a timely manner or may not be successful in completely offsetting the impact of lower than anticipated revenues.

Acquisition-related Costs

We expense all acquisition-related costs as incurred. These costs generally include outside services for legal and accounting fees, and other integration services. In addition, it includes the amortization of cash merger consideration over the vesting term related to the ViVu acquisition. We have spent and will continue to spend significant resources identifying and acquiring businesses. During 2011, we recorded $9.7 million of acquisition-related costs. These costs were primarily related to our acquisition of Accordent which closed on March 21, 2011, our acquisition of HPVC which closed on July 27, 2011, and our acquisition of ViVu which closed on October 14, 2011. No such activities occurred in 2010 and 2009. See Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Amortization of Purchased Intangibles

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, we recorded $9.8 million, $5.6 million, and $5.8 million, respectively, for amortization of purchased intangibles acquired in our acquisitions. In addition to the amounts recorded as operating expenses in 2011, 2010 and 2009, we recorded amortization totaling $11.9 million, $13.3 million, and $13.5 million, respectively, related to certain technology intangibles in cost of product revenues. The increase in 2011, as compared to 2010, is primarily due to the amortization of purchased intangibles acquired from Accordent in the first quarter of 2011, from HPVC in the third quarter of 2011, and from ViVu in the fourth quarter of 2011. Purchased intangible assets are being amortized to expense over their estimated useful lives, which range from several months to eight years.

The amortization of purchased intangibles in 2010 remained relatively consistent with that recorded in 2009, as there were no additions, impairments or changes to useful lives recognized during either 2010 or 2009 that would increase or decrease the amortization expense amount.

We evaluate our purchased intangibles for possible impairment on an ongoing basis. When impairment indicators exist, we perform an assessment to determine if the intangible asset has been impaired and to what extent. The assessment of purchased intangibles impairment is conducted by first estimating the undiscounted future cash flows to be generated from the use and eventual disposition of the purchased intangibles and comparing this amount with the carrying value of these assets. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying amounts, impairment exists, and future cash flows are discounted at an appropriate rate and compared to the carrying amounts of the purchased intangibles to determine the amount of the impairment. No impairment charges were recognized for all periods presented. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, the carrying value of our purchased intangibles was $78.9 million and $26.6 million, respectively. The increase in the purchased intangibles carrying value from December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2011 was due to the acquisitions completed during the year.

Restructuring Costs

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, we recorded $9.4 million, $8.1 million, and $15.9 million, respectively, related to restructuring actions which resulted from the elimination or relocation of various positions as part of restructuring plans approved by management. These actions are generally intended to streamline and focus our efforts and more properly align our cost structure with our projected revenue streams.

During 2011 management also completed the consolidation of our Colorado facilities and began the transition of certain engineering and product management and related support functions in our Andover, Massachusetts facility to other locations in order to gain efficiencies. Restructuring charges relating to these actions primarily included costs for idle facilities and, to a lesser extent, severance and relocation costs for impacted individuals.

In October 2011, management committed to a restructuring plan designed to better align and allocate resources to more strategic growth areas of the business. These actions are primarily related to the reorganization of our global go-to-market and other organizations. The restructuring plan will result in the elimination of approximately seven percent of our global workforce with the majority of the reductions taking effect in the fourth quarter of 2011 and first quarter of 2012, enabling the creation of new positions that better align with our strategic initiatives. In the fourth quarter of 2011, we recorded charges totaling $5.0 million related to these actions and we currently expect to record additional restructuring charges and make cash expenditures between approximately $6.0 million and $7.0 million through the third quarter of 2012 resulting from this action, primarily related to severance and other employee termination benefits.

In addition, we have approved plans to consolidate and eliminate certain facilities in order to gain efficiencies, including the combination of our headquarters and San Jose, California operations into one location. As a result, we expect to record approximately $12.0 million in additional restructuring charges related to idle facilities upon vacating these facilities in the second quarter of 2012.

In 2010, these actions were designed to reallocate our resources to more strategic growth areas of the business and resulted in elimination of certain positions while enabling the hiring of additional positions to better align with the execution of our strategic initiatives. See Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on restructure costs.

In the future, we may take additional restructuring actions to gain operating efficiencies or reduce our operating expenses, while simultaneously implementing additional cost containment measures and expense control programs. Such restructuring actions are subject to significant risks, including delays in implementing expense control programs or workforce reductions and the failure to meet operational targets due to the loss of employees or a decrease in employee morale, all of which would impair our ability to achieve anticipated cost reductions. If we do not achieve the anticipated cost reductions, our business could be harmed.

Litigation Reserves and Payments

During 2010 and 2009, we recorded $1.2 million and $0.7 million, respectively in litigation reserves and payments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations related to the settlement of legal matters during the periods. There were no such expenses in 2011. See Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

We are also subject to a variety of other claims and suits that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of our business. These matters are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of these matters may change in the future and could result in charges that would have a material adverse impact on our financial position, our results of operations, or our cash flows.

Interest and Other Income (Expense), Net

Interest and other income (expense), net, consists primarily of interest earned on our cash, cash equivalents and investments less bank charges resulting from the use of our bank accounts, gains and losses on investments, non-income related taxes and fees and foreign exchange related gains and losses. Interest and other income (expense), net, was a net expense of $1.6 million, $7.8 million, and $2.1 million in 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

The decrease in interest and other income (expense), net, in 2011 from 2010 was primarily due to a write-down in 2010 of other-than temporarily impaired investments, partially offset by a decrease in interest income, net. There were no such other-than temporarily impaired investments in 2011.

The increase in net expense in 2010 over 2009 was primarily due to net losses realized on the sale of investments in 2010, an increase in non-income related taxes and fees in 2010 as compared to 2009 and the write-off of a non-trade note receivable in 2010. There were no such investment losses or non-trade receivable write-offs during 2009. The increase in net expense was partially offset by lower foreign exchange losses recognized in 2010 as compared to 2009.

Interest and other income (expense), net, will fluctuate due to changes in interest rates and returns on our cash and investments, any future impairment of investments, foreign currency rate fluctuations on un-hedged exposures, fluctuations in costs associated with our hedging program and timing of non-income related taxes and license fees. The cash balance could also decrease depending upon the amount of cash used in any future acquisitions, our stock repurchase activity and other factors, which would also impact our interest income.

Provision for Income Taxes

Our overall effective tax rates for 2011, 2010, and 2009 were 7.7%, 16.9%, and 26.2%, respectively, which resulted in a provision for income taxes of $11.4 million, $13.9 million, and $17.7 million in 2011, 2010, and

2009, respectively. The decrease in the effective tax rate in 2011 versus 2010 was due to a relative increase in foreign earnings which are subject to lower tax rates, an increase in U.S. research and development tax credits, and an increase in the release of uncertain tax positions inclusive of related interest and penalties of $8.9 million in 2011 as compared to $5.3 million in 2010, partially offset by U.S. taxes accrued on the intercompany sale of intellectual properties. Similarly, the decrease in the effective tax rate in 2010 versus 2009 was primarily related to a relative increase in foreign earnings subject to lower tax rates, greater releases of uncertain tax positions inclusive of related interest and penalties in 2010 of $5.3 million as compared to 2009 when we released $2.9 million, and an increase in U.S. research and development tax credits in 2010.

As of December 31, 2011, we had approximately $5.0 million in tax effected net operating losses, $3.9 million in tax effected capital loss carryforwards and $12.0 million in tax effected credit carryforwards. The capital and net operating loss carryforward assets and tax credit carryforwards begin to expire in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Included in the net deferred tax asset balance is a $6.7 million valuation allowance recorded related primarily to net operating losses and credits in jurisdictions with a history of credits in excess of taxable profits. See Note 12 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

In 2011, we recorded reserve releases of $8.1 million, $6.9 million of which was due to the resolution of multi-year tax audits. The expiration of statutes of limitation in both the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions resulted in reserve releases of $0.8 million, and $0.4 million in reduction in reserves was due to changes in foreign exchange rates.

In 2010, the California Franchise Tax Board completed its audit of the 2005 and 2006 tax years. The audit resulted in a payment of $0.8 million. Certain other audit issues were also settled during the year resulting in the release of accrued taxes of $1.5 million. Additionally, $3.4 million in tax reserves related to the cost sharing of stock based compensation were released as an adjustment to stockholders’ equity, $0.7 million in tax reserves were released due to changes in foreign exchange rates during the year, and $2.1 million in tax reserves were released due to the expiration of statutes of limitation in both the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions.

As of December 31, 2011, we have $32.4 million of unrecognized tax benefits compared to $36.9 million at December 31, 2010. By the end of 2012, uncertain tax positions may be reduced as a result of a lapse of the applicable statutes of limitations. We anticipate that the reduction would approximate $3.4 million. The reserve releases would be recorded as adjustments to tax expense in the period released.

We recognize interest and/or penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, we had approximately $2.0 million and $2.5 million, respectively, of accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions.

Our future effective income tax rate depends on various factors, such as changes in tax legislation, accounting principles, or interpretations thereof, the geographic composition of our pre-tax income, non tax-deductible expenses incurred in connection with acquisitions, amounts of tax-exempt interest income and research and development credits as a percentage of aggregate pre-tax income, final resolution of the tax impact from the exercise of incentive stock options and the issuance of shares under the employee stock purchase plan, and the effectiveness of our tax planning strategies. We believe that our future effective tax rate may be more volatile as a result of these factors.

We are also subject to the periodic examination of our income tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities. We regularly assess the likelihood of adverse outcomes resulting from these examinations to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes. There can be no assurance that the outcomes from these continuous examinations will not have an adverse effect on our net income and financial condition, possibly materially.

Segment Information

We are a leading global provider of a line of high-quality, easy-to-use communications equipment that enables businesses, telecommunications service providers, and governmental and educational institutions to more effectively conduct video, voice, data and web communications. Our business is organized around four major geographic theatres: North America, Central America/Latin America (“CALA”), Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific (“APAC”). For reporting purposes, we aggregate North America and CALA into one segment named Americas and report EMEA and APAC as separate segments. The segments are determined in accordance with how management views and evaluates its business and allocates its resources, and based on the criteria as outlined in the authoritative guidance. Prior to the fourth quarter of 2010, we organized our offerings along three product categories: Video Communications Solutions, Voice Communications Solutions, and Services, which were also considered our operating segments for reporting purposes. As a result of this change in presentation, the revenue and operating results for the prior periods have been revised to conform to the current period presentation. This change in segment reporting had no impact on our consolidated balance sheets, income statements, cash flows or changes in shareholders’ equity for any periods.

A description of our products and services, as well as annual financial data, for each segment can be found in the Business section of this Form 10-K and Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. The discussions below include the results of each of our segments for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009. Segment contribution margin includes all segment revenues less the related cost of sales and direct marketing and sales expenses. Management allocates some infrastructure costs such as facilities and IT costs in determining segment contribution margin. Contribution margin is used, in part, to evaluate the performance of, and to allocate resources to, each of the segments. Certain operating expenses are not allocated to segments because they are separately managed at the corporate level. These unallocated costs include corporate manufacturing costs, sales and marketing costs other than direct sales and marketing, stock-based compensation costs, research and development costs, general and administrative costs, such as legal and accounting costs, acquisition-related integration costs, amortization of purchased intangible assets, restructuring costs, and interest and other income (expense), net.

The following is a summary of the financial information for each of our segments for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 (in thousands):


	Americas			EMEA			APAC			Total
2011:
Revenue	$	756,074		$	376,579		$	363,145		$	1,495,798
% of total revenue		51	%		25	%		24	%		100	%
Contribution margin		315,297			153,842			176,420			645,559
% of segment revenue		42	%		41	%		49	%		43	%
2010:
Revenue	$	656,432		$	302,118		$	259,939		$	1,218,489
% of total revenue		54	%		25	%		21	%		100	%
Contribution margin		261,625			108,296			118,744			488,665
% of segment revenue		40	%		36	%		46	%		40	%
2009:
Revenue	$	536,682		$	240,226		$	190,076		$	966,984
% of total revenue		55	%		25	%		20	%		100	%
Contribution margin		216,739			90,143			88,567			395,449
% of segment revenue		40	%		38	%		47	%		41	%

Americas


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011		2010
Revenues	$	756,074		$	656,432		$	536,682			15%		22%
Contribution margin	$	315,297		$	261,625		$	216,739			21%		21%
Contribution margin as % of Americas revenues		42	%		40	%		40	%		2pts		—

Our Americas segment revenues increased by 15% in 2011, as compared with 2010, primarily due to increased revenues in the United States and Brazil, partially offset by decreases in Canada and Mexico. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, UC personal devices and network infrastructure revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in the Americas were primarily driven by increased group voice revenues, increased group video revenues, and increased immersive telepresence revenues. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP, partially offset by decreased wireless product revenues and by decreased desktop video revenues. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of our RealPresence products and services. While our North America revenues increased in 2011 over 2010, we have seen a decline in our quarterly year-over-year growth rates, including most recently in the fourth quarter of 2011, where they were at the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2009. We believe that this decline is primarily due to execution issues, and we have recently made changes to the leadership and structure of our sales organization that are intended to realign and optimize the region.

Our Americas segment revenues increased by 22% in 2010 as compared with 2009 primarily due to an improvement in the economic environment, particularly in the United States, Brazil, and Canada, which resulted in increased demand for our products and services. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, UC personal devices and network infrastructure revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in the Americas was primarily driven by increased group voice revenues, increased group video revenues, and to a lesser extent, increased immersive telepresence revenues. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of our RealPresence products and services.

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, one channel partner in our Americas segment accounted for 26%, 24%, and 20% of our Americas net revenues, respectively. We believe it is unlikely that the loss of any of our channel partners would have a long term material adverse effect on our consolidated net revenues or segment net revenues, as we believe end-users would likely purchase our products from a different channel partner. However, a loss of any one of these channel partners could have a material adverse impact during the transition period.

Contribution margin as a percentage of America’s segment revenues was 42% in 2011 as compared to 40% in 2010. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue increased by 2 percentage points, primarily due to increased gross margins and a decrease in sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue. The increase in gross margins was driven primarily by a mix shift toward higher margin products in our RealPresence network infrastructure product offerings and a decrease in cost of services as a percentage of revenues. Direct sales and marketing expenses increased in absolute dollars, but decreased as a percentage of revenue. The increases in absolute dollars were due to increased headcount and higher spend on marketing programs. The decrease as a percentage of revenue was due to increased productivity of our sales force. Contribution margin as a percentage of revenue may fluctuate in 2012 while we implement changes to the leadership and structure of the North America sales organization that are intended to realign and optimize the region.

Contribution margin as a percentage of America’s segment revenues was 40% in both 2010 and 2009. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue remained consistent due primarily to flat gross margins and direct sales and marketing expenses, while increasing in absolute dollars, remained flat as a percentage of revenue.

EMEA


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase (Decrease) From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011		2010
Revenues	$	376,579		$	302,118		$	240,226			25%		26%
Contribution margin	$	153,842		$	108,296		$	90,143			42%		20%
Contribution margin as % of EMEA revenues		41	%		36	%		38	%		5pts		(2)pts

Our EMEA segment revenues increased by 25% in 2011 as compared with 2010 primarily due to broad-based growth throughout most of EMEA, being led by growth in Russia, UK, Germany and Nordic countries, partially offset by a decrease in Spain. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, network infrastructure, and UC personal devices revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in EMEA was primarily driven by increased group video revenues, increased group voice revenues and increased immersive telepresence revenues. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of the products and services that comprise our RealPresence network infrastructure products and services. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP technology, an increase in wireless product revenues, and an increase in desktop video revenues.

Our EMEA segment revenues increased by 26% in 2010 as compared with 2009 primarily due to an improvement in the economic environment, which resulted in increased demand for our products and services. Revenues from western European countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom contributed to the growth in EMEA followed by Russia, United Arab Emirates, Ireland and South Africa. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, network infrastructure, and UC personal devices revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in EMEA was primarily driven by increased group video revenues, and to a lesser extent, increased group voice revenues and increased immersive telepresence revenues. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of the products and services that comprise our RealPresence. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP and an increase in wireless product revenues.

In 2011 and 2010, one channel partner in our EMEA segment accounted for 10% and 12% of our EMEA net revenues, respectively. In 2009, no one channel partner in our EMEA segment accounted for more than 10% of our EMEA net revenues.

Contribution margin as a percentage of EMEA segment revenues was 41% in 2011 as compared to 36% in 2010. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue increased primarily due to higher gross margins and lower direct sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenues. The increase in gross margins was driven primarily by a decrease in cost of services as a percentage of revenues and a mix shift toward higher margin products in our RealPresence network infrastructure product offerings. Direct sales and marketing expenses increased in absolute dollars, but decreased as a percentage of revenue. The increases in absolute dollars were primarily due to increased headcount, partially offset by a decrease in marketing program investments. The decrease as a percentage of revenue was primarily due to increased productivity of our sales force, as well as a decrease in marketing program investments.

Contribution margin as a percentage of EMEA segment revenues was 36% in 2010 as compared to 38% in 2009. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue decreased primarily due to lower gross margins. Direct sales and marketing expenses, while increasing in absolute dollars, remained relatively flat as a percentage of revenues. The decrease in gross margins was driven primarily by fluctuations in foreign currencies, primarily the British Pound.

APAC


	Year Ended December 31,									Increase (Decrease) From Prior Year
$ in thousands	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010
Revenues	$	363,145		$	259,939		$	190,076			40	%		37	%
Contribution margin	$	176,420		$	118,744		$	88,567			49	%		34	%
Contribution margin as % of APAC revenue		49	%		46	%		47	%		3pts			(1	)pt

Our APAC segment revenues increased by 40% in 2011 as compared with 2010 primarily due to investments made in our go-to-market capabilities. Revenues from China, Australia, and India contributed to the strong growth in APAC. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, network infrastructure, and to a lesser extent, UC personal devices revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in APAC was primarily driven by increased group video revenues, and to a lesser extent, increased group voice revenues and increased immersive telepresence revenues. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of our RealPresence network infrastructure products and services. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP technologies.

Our APAC segment revenues increased by 37% in 2010 as compared with 2009 primarily due to investments made in our go-to-market capabilities and an improved economic environment, which resulted in increased demand for our products and services. Revenues from China, Singapore, Australia, Japan and India contributed to the strong growth in APAC. The increase in revenues was driven by increases in our UC group systems, network infrastructure, and UC personal devices revenues. Increases in UC group systems revenues in APAC was primarily driven by increased group video revenues, and to a lesser extent, increased group voice revenues and increased immersive telepresence revenues. Increases in UC personal devices revenues were primarily driven by increased desktop voice sales resulting from continued adoption of VoIP. Network infrastructure revenues growth was as a result of increased sales of the products and services that comprise our RealPresence.

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, two channel partners in our APAC segment, in aggregate, accounted for 33%, 25%, and 25%, respectively, of our APAC net revenues.

Contribution margin as a percentage of APAC segment revenues was 49% in 2011 as compared to 46% in 2010. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue increased primarily due to higher gross margins and lower sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue. The increase in gross margins was driven primarily by a decrease in cost of services as a percentage of revenue while product gross margin as a percentage of revenue increased slightly. The increase in gross margins was driven primarily by a decrease in cost of services as a percentage of revenues and a mix shift toward higher margin products in our RealPresence network infrastructure product offerings. Direct sales and marketing expenses, while increasing in absolute dollars, decreased as a percentage of revenues. The decrease in sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenues was due to spending mix and investments focused in lower cost areas.

Contribution margin as a percentage of APAC segment revenues was 46% in 2010 as compared to 47% in 2009. The contribution margin as a percentage of revenue decreased primarily due to lower gross margins. Direct sales and marketing expenses, while increasing in absolute dollars, remained relatively flat as a percentage of revenues. The decrease in gross margins was driven primarily by changes in product mix and lower average selling prices due to increased discounting.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2011, our principal sources of liquidity included cash and cash equivalents of $375.4 million, short-term investments of $159.4 million and long-term investments of $56.8 million. Substantially all

of our short-term and long-term investments are comprised of U.S. government and agency securities and corporate debt securities. See Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on our short-term and long-term investments. We also have outstanding letters of credit totaling approximately $2.3 million, the majority of which are in place to satisfy certain of our facility lease requirements.

Our total cash and cash equivalents and investments held in the United States totaled $151.4 million as of December 31, 2011, and the remaining $440.2 million was held by various foreign subsidiaries outside of the United States.

If we would need to access our cash and cash equivalents and investments held outside of the United States in order to fund acquisitions, share repurchases or our working capital needs, we may be subject to additional U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits) and foreign withholding taxes.

We generated cash from operating activities totaling $299.6 million in 2011, $143.4 million in 2010, and $180.8 million in 2009. The increase in cash provided from operating activities in 2011 over 2010 was due primarily to higher net income and non-cash expenses, decreased inventory, a smaller increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets, and a higher increase in accounts payable, other accrued liabilities, and taxes payable. Partially offsetting these positive effects were increases in accounts receivables, and deferred taxes.

The decrease in cash provided from operating activities in 2010 over 2009 was due primarily to increased inventory, prepaid expenses and other current assets, a higher increase in accounts receivable, a lower increase in accounts payable and to a lesser extent, an increase in deferred taxes. Partially offsetting these negative effects were increases in other accrued liabilities, non-cash expenses and net income.

The total net change in cash and cash equivalents for the year ended 2011 was an increase of $51.3 million. The primary sources of cash were $299.6 million from operating activities, $40.8 million associated with the exercise of stock options and purchases under the employee stock purchase plan and $13.4 million in excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation. The primary uses of cash during this period were $163.6 million in acquisitions, $69.3 million for purchases of property and equipment, $64.9 million for purchases of our common stock, and $4.7 million for purchases of investments, net of proceeds from investments.

Our days sales outstanding, or DSO, metric was 49 days at December 31, 2011 compared to 41 days at December 31, 2010. We expect to continue to experience upward pressure on our DSO as a result of the increase in international receivables, which typically have longer payment terms. DSO could vary as a result of a number of factors such as fluctuations in revenue linearity, a change in the mix of international receivables, and increases in receivables from service providers and government entities which also have customarily longer payment terms. DSO could also be negatively impacted if our partners experience difficulty in financing purchases, which results in delays in payment to us.

Our December 31, 2011 finished goods inventory levels were lower than the December 31, 2010 levels and inventory turns increased from 4.8 turns at December 31, 2010 to 6.1 turns at December 31, 2011. The decrease in inventory and an increase in inventory turns reflect our ability to manage lead times in fulfilling orders. Inventory turns in the future may fluctuate depending on our ability to reduce lead times, as well as changes in product mix. Our inventory turns may also decrease in the future as a result of the flexibility required to respond to the increased demands of our growing business and the sustainability of the global economic recovery.

Cash used for purchases of property and equipment remained flat at $69.3 million in 2011 compared to 2010. We expect our purchases of property and equipment in 2012 to increase due to our headquarters move, upgrades to our Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) systems and continued support of our strategic imperatives.

We enter into foreign currency forward contracts, which typically mature in one month, to hedge our exposure to foreign currency fluctuations of foreign currency-denominated receivables, payables, and cash

balances. We record on the balance sheet at each reporting period the fair value of our foreign currency forward contracts and record any fair value adjustments in results of operations. Gains and losses associated with currency rate changes on contracts are recorded in interest and other income (expense), net, offsetting transaction gains and losses on the related assets and liabilities. Additionally, our hedging costs can vary depending on the size of our hedging program, on whether we are purchasing or selling foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar and on interest rate spreads between the U.S. and other foreign markets.

Additionally, we also have a hedging program that uses foreign currency forward contracts to hedge a portion of anticipated revenues and operating expenses denominated in the Euro and British Pound as well as operating expenses denominated in Israeli Shekels. At each reporting period, we record the fair value of our unrealized forward contracts on the balance sheet with related unrealized gains and losses as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), a separate element of stockholders’ equity. Realized gains and losses associated with the effective portion of the foreign currency forward contracts are recorded within revenue or operating expense, depending upon the underlying exposure being hedged. Any excluded and ineffective portions of a hedging instrument would be recorded in interest and other income (expense), net.

From time to time, the Board of Directors has approved plans for us to purchase shares of our common stock in the open market. During the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, we purchased approximately 2.0 million, 4.8 million, and 3.2 million shares, as adjusted for the stock split, respectively, of our common stock in the open market for cash of $40.0 million, $69.2 million, and $32.8 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2011, we were authorized to purchase up to an additional $78.0 million under the 2008 share repurchase plan. See Note 10 of Notes to our Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the accounting for our common stock repurchases and the resultant accumulated deficit or related reduction to retained earnings, as applicable, included in stockholders’ equity in our consolidated balance sheet.

At December 31, 2011, we had open purchase orders related to our contract manufacturers and other contractual obligations of approximately $228.0 million primarily related to inventory purchases. We also currently have commitments that consist of obligations under our operating leases. In the event that we decide to cease using a facility and seek to sublease such facility or terminate a lease obligation through a lease buyout or other means, we may incur a material cash outflow at the time of such transaction, which will negatively impact our operating results and overall cash flows. In addition, if facilities rental rates decrease or if it takes longer than expected to sublease these facilities, we could incur a significant further charge to operations and our operating and overall cash flows could be negatively impacted in the period that these changes or events occur.

These purchase commitments and lease obligations are reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements once goods or services have been received or at such time when we are obligated to make payments related to these goods, services or leases. In addition, our bank has issued letters of credit totaling approximately $2.3 million, the majority of which are used to secure the leases on some of our offices.

The table set forth below shows, as of December 31, 2011, the future minimum lease payments due under our current lease obligations. There was no sublease income netted in the amounts below. In addition to these minimum lease payments, we are contractually obligated under the majority of our operating leases to pay certain operating expenses during the term of the lease such as maintenance, taxes and insurance. This table excludes leases expiring or subject to cancellation within twelve months subsequent to December 31, 2011. Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2011 are as follows (in thousands):


	Minimum Lease Payments		Projected Annual Operating Costs		Other Long- Term Liabilities		Purchase Commitments
Year ending December 31,
2012	$	20,308	$	4,007	$	—	$	225,850
2013		21,778		3,244		1,354		2,164
2014		25,125		2,595		1,516		—
2015		20,876		1,902		1,400		—
2016		18,434		1,478		2,355		—
Thereafter		69,665		2,502		6,637		—

Total payments	$	176,186	$	15,728	$	13,262	$	228,014

As of December 31, 2011, we have $32.4 million of unrecognized tax benefits compared to $36.9 million at December 31, 2010. By the end of 2012, uncertain tax positions may be reduced as a result of a lapse in the applicable statutes of limitations. We anticipate that the reduction would approximate $3.4 million. The reserve releases would be recorded as adjustments to tax expense in the period released.

We believe that our available cash, cash equivalents and investments will be sufficient to meet our operating expenses and capital requirements for at least the next twelve months. However, we may require or desire additional funds to support our operating expenses and capital requirements or for other purposes, such as acquisitions, and may seek to raise such additional funds through public or private equity financing, debt financing or from other sources. We cannot assure you that additional financing will be available at all or that, if available, such financing will be obtainable on terms favorable to us and would not be dilutive. Our future liquidity and cash requirements will depend on numerous factors, including the introduction of new products and potential acquisitions of related businesses or technology.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of December 31, 2011, we did not have any off-balance-sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of SEC Regulation S-K.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. We review the accounting policies used in reporting our financial results on a regular basis. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our process used to develop estimates, including those related to product returns, accounts receivable, inventories, investments, intangible assets, income taxes, warranty obligations, stock compensation costs, restructuring, contingencies and litigation. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates due to actual outcomes being different from those on which we based our assumptions. These estimates and judgments are reviewed by management on an ongoing basis and by the Audit Committee at the end of each quarter prior to the public release of our financial results. We believe the following critical accounting policies affect our more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements. See Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional discussion of our accounting policies.

Revenue Recognition and Product Returns

We recognize revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, title and risk of loss have transferred, product payment is not contingent upon performance of installation or service obligations, the price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured. In instances where final acceptance of the product or service is specified by the customer, revenue is deferred until all acceptance criteria have been met. We generally recognize service revenues ratably over the service periods of one to five years or upon the completion of installation or professional services.

Some of our products are integrated with software that is essential to the functionality of the equipment. Additionally, we provide unspecified software upgrades and enhancements related to most of these products through maintenance contracts.

When a sale involves multiple deliverables, such as sales of products that include services, the multiple deliverables are evaluated to determine the unit of accounting, and the entire fee from the arrangement is allocated to each unit of accounting based on the relative selling price of each deliverable. When applying the relative selling price method, we determine the selling price for each deliverable using vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of selling price, if it exists, or third-party evidence (“TPE”) of selling price. If neither VSOE nor TPE of selling price exist for a deliverable, we use our best estimate of selling price for that deliverable. Revenue allocated to each element is then recognized when the other revenue recognition criteria are met for each element.

Channel Partner Programs and Incentives

We record estimated reductions to revenues for channel partner programs and incentive offerings including special pricing agreements, promotions and other volume-based incentives. If market conditions were to decline or competition were to increase further, we may take future actions to increase channel partner incentive offerings, possibly resulting in an incremental reduction of revenues at the time the incentive is offered. We accrue for co-op marketing funds as a marketing expense if we receive an identifiable benefit in exchange and can reasonably estimate the fair value of the identifiable benefit received; otherwise, it is recorded as a reduction to revenues.

Warranty

We provide for the estimated cost of product warranties at the time revenue is recognized. Our warranty obligation is affected by estimated product failure rates, material usage and service delivery costs incurred in correcting a product failure. Should actual product failure rates, material usage or service delivery costs differ from our estimates, revision of the estimated warranty liability would be required.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of our customers to make required payments. We review our allowance for doubtful accounts quarterly by assessing individual accounts receivable over a specific aging and amount, and all other balances on a pooled basis based on historical collection experience. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, adversely affecting their ability to make payments, additional allowances would be required. Delinquent account balances are written off after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.

Excess and Obsolete Inventory

We record write-downs for excess and obsolete inventory equal to the difference between the cost of inventory and the estimated fair value based upon assumptions about future product life-cycles, product demand and market conditions. If actual product life cycles, product demand and market conditions are less favorable

than those projected by management, additional inventory write-downs may be required. At the point of the loss recognition, a new, lower-cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration of or increase in that newly established cost basis.

Stock-based Compensation Expense

Our stock-based compensation programs consist of grants of share-based awards to employees and non-employee directors, including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance shares, as well as our employee stock purchase plan. We measure and recognize compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors based on estimated fair values. The estimated fair value of these awards, including the effect of estimated forfeitures, is recognized as expense over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period. The fair values of stock option awards and shares purchased under the employee stock purchase plan are estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The fair value of restricted stock units is based on the market value of our common stock on the date of grant. The fair value of performance shares is based on the market price of our stock on the date of grant and assumes that the performance criteria will be met and the target payout level will be achieved. Compensation cost is adjusted for subsequent changes in the probable outcome of performance-related conditions until the award vests. The fair value of a performance share with a market condition is estimated on the date of award, using a Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate the total return ranking of our stock among the Russell 2000 Index companies (for awards granted prior to 2011) and NASDAQ Composite Index companies (for awards granted in 2011) over each performance period. Changes in the underlying factors and assumptions utilized may result in significant variability in the stock-based compensation costs we record, which makes such amounts difficult to accurately predict.

Deferred and Refundable Taxes

We estimate our actual current tax expense together with our temporary differences resulting from differing treatment of items, such as deferred revenue, for tax and accounting purposes. These temporary differences result in deferred tax assets and liabilities. We must then assess the likelihood that our deferred tax assets will be recovered from future taxable income and to the extent we believe that recovery is not likely, we must establish a valuation allowance against these tax assets. Significant management judgment is required in determining our provision for income taxes, our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowance recorded against our net deferred tax assets. To the extent we establish a valuation allowance in a period, we must include and expense the allowance within the tax provision in the consolidated statement of operations. As of December 31, 2011, we have $58.8 million in net deferred tax assets. Included in the net deferred tax asset balance is a $6.7 million valuation allowance recorded related primarily to net operating losses and credits in jurisdictions with a history of credits in excess of taxable profits.

We recognize and measure benefits for uncertain tax positions using a two-step approach. The first step is to evaluate the tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon audit, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. For tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon audit, the second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon settlement. Significant judgment is required to evaluate uncertain tax positions. We evaluate our uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis. Our evaluations are based upon a number of factors, including changes in facts or circumstances, changes in tax law, correspondence with tax authorities during the course of audits and effective settlement of audit issues. Changes in the recognition or measurement of uncertain tax positions could result in material increases or decreases in our income tax expense in the period in which we make the change, which could have a material impact on our effective tax rate and operating results.

Fair Value

asset or liability. As the basis for considering such assumptions, a three-tier value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows: (Level 1) observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets; (Level 2) inputs other than the quoted prices in active markets that are observable either directly or indirectly; and (Level 3) unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require us to develop our own assumptions. This hierarchy requires us to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs when determining fair value. On a recurring basis, we measure certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value, including our marketable securities and foreign currency contracts.

Our cash and investment instruments are classified within Level 1 or Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using inputs such as quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. The types of instruments valued based on quoted market prices in active markets include money market funds. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

The types of instruments valued based on other observable inputs include U.S. Treasury securities and other government agencies, corporate bonds and commercial paper. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

As of December 31, 2011, our fixed income available-for-sale securities include U.S. Treasury obligations and other government agency instruments, corporate bonds, commercial paper, municipal securities and money market funds. Included in available-for-sale securities are cash equivalents, which consist of investments with original maturities of three months or less and include money market funds.

The principal market where we execute our foreign currency contracts is the retail market in an over-the-counter environment with a relatively high level of price transparency. The market participants and our counterparties are large money center banks and regional banks. Our foreign currency contracts valuation inputs are based on quoted prices and quoted pricing intervals from public data sources (specifically, spot exchange rates, LIBOR rates and credit default rates) and do not involve management judgment. These contracts are typically classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. For more information on the fair values of our marketable securities and foreign currency contracts see Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Business Combinations

We recognize separately from goodwill the fair value of assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred and the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. While we use our best estimates and assumptions as a part of the purchase price allocation process to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, we may record adjustments retrospectively to the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to our consolidated statements of operations.

In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances assumed in connection with a business combination are initially estimated as of the acquisition date. We reevaluate these items quarterly and record any adjustments to our preliminary estimates to goodwill provided that we are within the measurement period and we continue to collect information in order to determine their estimated fair values as of the date of acquisition. Subsequent to the measurement period or our final determination of the tax allowance’s estimated value, changes to these uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances will affect our provision for income taxes in our consolidated statements of operations.

Goodwill and Purchased Intangibles

Goodwill is not amortized but is regularly reviewed for potential impairment. In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on goodwill impairment testing which provides entities an option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. Although the new guidance provides for a qualitative assessment with regard to impairment, entities must still follow the preliminary steps to identify reporting units, assign assets and liabilities to those reporting units, and assign all goodwill to applicable reporting units. We elected to early adopt this guidance in 2011 and such adoption did not have an impact to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Polycom’s business is organized around four major geographic theatres: North America, Central America/Latin America (“CALA”), Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific (“APAC”) which were determined to be its reporting units in 2011. Goodwill was reallocated to these four reporting units as of October 1, 2011. Based on our qualitative review of the Company’s financial factors, including our market capitalization and profitability, as well as macroeconomic factors, including size and growth of the market in which the company competes, it determined that goodwill was not impaired as of December 31, 2011. For reporting purposes, the Company aggregates North America and CALA into one segment named Americas and reports EMEA and APAC as separate segments. As of December 31, 2010, the three reportable segments were also determined to be our reporting units.

For 2010 testing, the assessment of goodwill impairment was conducted by determining the fair value of the reporting units. The Company then compared the fair value of the new reporting units to the reporting unit’s carrying value as of that date. The fair value was determined using an income approach and a market approach which was weighted equally. Under the income approach, the fair value of an asset is based on the value of the estimated cash flows that the asset can be expected to generate in the future. These estimated future cash flows were discounted at rates ranging from 12 to 13 percent to arrive at their respective fair values. Under the market approach, the fair value of the unit is based on an analysis of financial data for publicly traded companies engaged in the same or similar lines of business.

Based on the results of these impairment tests, which indicated that the estimated fair values of each of the Company’s reporting units substantially exceed its carrying value, the Company determined that its goodwill assets were not impaired as of December 31, 2010.

We assess the impairment of other indefinite lived intangibles at least annually unless impairment indicators exist sooner. We assess the impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. Some factors we consider important which could trigger an impairment review include the following:

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significant underperformance relative to projected future operating results;

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significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business; and

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significant negative industry or economic trends.

If we determine that the carrying value of goodwill and other indefinite lived intangibles may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more of the above indicators of impairment, we would measure any impairment based on a projected discounted cash flow method using a discount rate determined by us to be commensurate with the risk inherent in our current business model.

Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from several months to eight years. We annually assess whether any impairment indicators exist on purchased intangibles with finite lives. Long-lived assets, including intangible assets with finite lives, are tested for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. The assessment of purchased intangibles impairment is

conducted by first estimating the undiscounted expected future cash flows to be generated from the use and eventual disposition of the purchased intangibles and comparing this amount with the carrying value of these assets. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying amounts, impairment exists, and future cash flows are discounted at an appropriate rate and compared to the carrying amounts of the purchased intangibles to determine the amount of the impairment.

There was no impairment charge recorded in 2011 as no impairment indicators existed. Screening for and assessing whether impairment indicators exist or if events or changes in circumstances have occurred, including market conditions, operating fundamentals, competition and general economic conditions, requires significant judgment. Additionally, changes in the high-technology industry occur frequently and quickly. Therefore, there can be no assurance that a charge to operations will not occur as a result of future goodwill and purchased intangible impairment tests.

Private Company Investments

We periodically make strategic investments in companies whose stock is not currently traded on any stock exchange and for which no quoted price exists. The cost method of accounting is used to account for these investments as we hold a non-material ownership percentage. We review these investments for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets might not be recoverable. Examples of events or changes in circumstances that may indicate to us that an impairment exists may be a significant decrease in the market value of the company, poor or deteriorating market conditions in the public and private equity capital markets, significant adverse changes in legal factors or within the business climate the company operates, and current period operating or cash flow losses combined with a history of operating or cash flow losses or projections and forecasts that demonstrate continuing losses associated with the company’s future business plans. Impairment indicators identified during the reporting period could result in a significant write-down in the carrying value of the investment if we believe an investment has experienced a decline in value that is other than temporary. During the year ended December 31, 2011, we recorded $0.1 million of impairment, net of recoveries, of these investments in interest and other income (expense), net in our consolidated statements of operations. During the years ended December 31, 2010, and 2009, we did not record any such impairment. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, our private company investments had a carrying value of $2.0 million and $2.5 million, respectively, and are recorded in “Other assets” in our consolidated balance sheets.

Derivative Instruments

The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. For derivative instruments designated as a fair value hedge, the gain or loss is recognized in earnings in the period of change together with the offsetting loss or gain on the hedged item attributed to the risk being hedged. For a derivative instrument designated as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of the derivative’s gain or loss is initially reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and is subsequently reclassified into earnings when the hedged exposure affects earnings. The ineffective portion of the gain or loss is reported in earnings immediately. For derivative instruments that are not designated as cash flow hedges, changes in fair value are recognized in earnings in the period of change. We do not hold or issue derivative financial instruments for speculative trading purposes. We enter into derivatives only with counterparties that are among the largest U.S. banks, ranked by assets, in order to minimize our credit risk.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income that will become effective for us beginning January 1, 2012, with earlier adoption permitted. This standard eliminates the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. We elected to early adopt this guidance in 2011, and such adoption did not have a material impact to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Interest Rate Risk

Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our investment portfolio. We generally invest excess cash in marketable debt instruments of the U.S. government and its agencies and high-quality corporate debt securities, and by policy, limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issuer.

The estimated fair value of our cash and cash equivalents approximates the principal amounts reflected in our Consolidated Balance Sheets based on the short maturities of these financial instruments. Short-term and long-term investments consist of U.S. and foreign government obligations and foreign and domestic public corporate debt securities. The valuation of our investment portfolio is subject to uncertainties that are difficult to predict, particularly in light of credit market instability. If the current market conditions deteriorate, or the anticipated recovery in market values does not occur, we may realize losses on the sale of our investments or we may incur further temporary impairment charges requiring us to record additional unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). We could also incur additional other-than-temporary impairment charges resulting in realized losses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations which would reduce net income. We consider various factors in determining whether we should recognize an impairment charge, including the length of time and extent to which the fair value has been less than our cost basis, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the security or issuer, and our intent and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow any anticipated recovery in the market value. Further, if we sell our investments prior to their maturity, we may incur a charge to operations in the period the sale takes place.

A sensitivity analysis was performed on our investment portfolio as of December 31, 2011. The modeling technique used measures the change in fair values arising from hypothetical parallel shifts in the yield curve of various magnitudes. We model the effect of an immediate parallel shift in the yield curve. This methodology assumes a more immediate change in interest rates to reflect the current economic environment.

The following table presents the hypothetical fair values of our securities, excluding cash and cash equivalents, held at December 31, 2011 that are sensitive to changes in interest rates. The modeling technique used measures the change in fair values arising from immediate parallel shifts in the yield curve of plus or minus 50 basis points (BPS), 100 BPS and 150 BPS (in thousands):


-150 BPS	-100 BPS		-50 BPS		Fair Value 12/31/2011		+50 BPS		+100 BPS		+150 BPS
$217,745	$	217,230	$	216,714	$	216,198	$	215,683	$	215,167	$	214,651

Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk

While the majority of our sales are denominated in United States dollars, we also sell our products and services in certain European regions in Euros and in British Pounds and incur expenses in Israeli Shekels, which has increased our risk from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

While we do not hedge for speculative purposes, as a result of our exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, we enter into forward exchange contracts to hedge our foreign currency exposure to the Euro, British Pound and Israeli Shekel relative to the United States Dollar. We mitigate bank counterparty risk related to our foreign currency hedging program through our policy that requires us to only enter into hedge contracts with banks that are among the world’s largest 100 banks, as ranked by total assets in U.S. dollars.

As of December 31, 2011, we had net outstanding forward exchange contracts to sell 8.6 million Euros at 1.40, 4.3 million British Pounds at 1.57, 11.3 million Israeli Shekels at 3.88, 5.3 million Mexican Pesos at 13.72, and 0.4 million Brazilian Real at 1.84. These forward exchange contracts hedge our net position of foreign currency-denominated receivables, payables and cash balances and typically mature in 360 days or less. As of

December 31, 2011, we also had net outstanding forward exchange contracts to sell 24.3 million Euros at 1.31, and 0.5 million British Pounds at 1.53, and to buy 20.4 million Israeli Shekels at 3.62. These forward exchange contracts, carried at fair value, typically have maturities of more than 360 days.

We also have a cash flow hedging program under which we hedge a portion of anticipated revenues and operating expenses denominated in the Euro, British Pound, and Israeli Shekels. As of December 31, 2011, we had outstanding foreign exchange contracts to buy 0.7 million Euros at 1.15, 0.1 million British Pounds at 1.52, and 11.6 million Israeli Shekels at 3.77. These forward exchange contracts, carried at fair value, typically have maturities of less than 360 days. As of December 31, 2011, we also had outstanding foreign exchange contracts to sell 46.7 million Euros at 1.39, and 1.1 million British Pounds at 1.56, and to buy 58.1 million Israeli Shekels at 3.58. These forward exchange contracts, carried at fair value, typically have maturities of more than 360 days.

Based on our overall currency rate exposure as of December 31, 2011, a near-term 10% appreciation or depreciation in the United States Dollar, relative to our foreign local currencies, would have an immaterial impact on our results of operations. We may also decide to expand the type of products we sell in foreign currencies or may, for specific customer situations, choose to sell in foreign currencies in our other regions, thereby further increasing our foreign exchange risk.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

The financial statements required by Item 8 and the financial statement schedules required by Item 15(a)(2) are included herein beginning on page F-1 and page S-2, respectively. The supplemental data called for by Item 8 is presented on page S-1.

ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

Not applicable.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective at a reasonable level of assurance to ensure that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to Polycom’s management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our disclosure controls and procedures include components of our internal control over financial reporting. Management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting is expressed at the level of reasonable assurance because a control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met.

Management’s annual report on internal control over financial reporting

See “Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” on page F-2 and “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” on page F-3.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our fourth fiscal quarter of 2011 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

Not applicable

PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

The information regarding our directors required by this item is included under the caption “Election of Directors” in our Proxy Statement for our 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2012 Proxy Statement”) and is incorporated herein by reference. The information regarding compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act required by this item is included under the caption “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The information regarding our code of ethics, nominating committee (including the director nomination process) and audit committee required by this item is included under the caption “Corporate Governance” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Our executive officers, and all persons chosen to become executive officers, and their ages and positions as of February 16, 2012, are as follows:


Name	Age		Position(s)
Andrew M. Miller*		52	Chief Executive Officer and President
Michael R. Kourey**		52	Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Sayed M. Darwish		46	Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Secretary
Laura J. Durr		51	Senior Vice President, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
Tracey E. Newell		45	Executive Vice President of Global Sales
Sudhakar Ramakrishna		44	President of Products and Services

*	Member of the Board of Directors.

On February 8, 2012, we announced that Mr. Kourey is retiring from Polycom effective February 20, 2012 and will remain with Polycom until March 7, 2012 to assist in the transition of his responsibilities. Further, Mr. Kourey will be available as an advisor to Polycom through May 7, 2012. On February 8, 2012, we also announced that our Board of Directors had appointed Eric F. Brown as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Polycom effective February 21, 2012.

Our executive officers are appointed by, and serve at the discretion of, the Board of Directors. There is no family relationship between any of our executive officers or directors.

Mr. Miller has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2010. In addition, he has been one of our directors since June 2010. He also served as Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations from July 2009 to May 2010. Prior to joining Polycom, Mr. Miller served as global president of IPC Information Systems, LLC, a provider of communications solutions and services, from December 2007 to June 2009. Prior to his position with IPC, Mr. Miller joined Monster Worldwide Inc., a provider of global online employment solutions, as Senior Vice President, Monster North America from June 2006 to August 2007. Mr. Miller served as Chief Executive Officer of Tandberg ASA, a provider of videoconferencing systems, from January 2002 to June 2006. Mr. Miller also held a number of roles at Cisco Systems, Inc. from 1990 to 2001, including Vice President, US Area Sales (West) and Vice President, Marketing (Customer Advocacy). Mr. Miller currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Mr. Miller previously served on the Board of Directors of Broadsoft, Inc. from June 2006 to October 2010. Mr. Miller holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Mr. Kourey has served as our Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration since May 2010 and as our Chief Financial Officer since January 1995. In addition, Mr. Kourey served as one of our directors from January 1999 to May 2011. He also served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration from January 1999 to May 2010, Vice President, Finance and Administration from January 1995 to January 1999, Vice

President, Finance and Operations from July 1991 to January 1995, Secretary from June 1993 to May 2003 and Treasurer from May 2003 to May 2004. Prior to joining Polycom, he was Vice President, Operations of Verilink Corporation. Mr. Kourey currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Aruba Networks, Inc. and Riverbed Technology, Inc. and serves on the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. Mr. Kourey previously served on the Board of Directors of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. from April 2003 to October 2006. Mr. Kourey holds a B.S. in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

Mr. Darwish has served as our Chief Legal Counsel, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Secretary since February 2012. Mr. Darwish also served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary from February 2011 to February 2012, Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary from January 2008 to February 2011, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from July 2007 to January 2008 and Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from August 2005 to July 2007. Prior to joining Polycom, from December 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Darwish served in various legal positions at EMC Corporation, ultimately as Vice President and General Counsel for EMC Corporation’s Software Group after EMC’s acquisition of Documentum, Inc., where he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from July 2000 to December 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Darwish served as Vice President and General Counsel for Luna Information Systems, served in various positions, including as General Counsel and Vice President, Legal and HR, for Forté Software, Inc. through its acquisition by Sun Microsystems, Inc., served as Corporate Counsel at Oracle Corporation, and was an associate in the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mr. Darwish is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D. cum laude, and holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Ms. Durr has served as our Senior Vice President, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer since October 2011. Ms. Durr also served as our Vice President, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer from March 2005 to October 2011 and as Assistant Controller from March 2004 to March 2005. Prior to joining Polycom, Ms. Durr served as the Director of Finance and Administration for QuickSilver Technology, Inc. from February 2003 to March 2004, as an independent consultant from July 2002 to February 2003 and as the Corporate Controller for C Speed Corporation from April 2001 to June 2002. From October 1999 to October 2000, Ms. Durr was a business unit Controller at Lucent Technologies, Inc. after Lucent’s acquisition of International Network Services, where she served as the Corporate Controller from May 1995 to October 1999. Ms. Durr also spent six years in various capacities at Price Waterhouse LLP. Ms. Durr is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

Ms. Newell has served as our Executive Vice President of Global Sales since July 2011. Prior to joining Polycom, she served at Juniper Networks, a network infrastructure company, from March 2010 to July 2011, most recently as Senior Vice President of Worldwide General Business Sales. Prior to that, Ms. Newell served in several leadership positions at Cisco Systems, a networking company, from October 1999 to March 2010, including leading worldwide sales for WebEx. Ms. Newell holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mr. Ramakrishna has served as our President of Products and Services since February 2012. Mr. Ramakrishna also served as our Executive Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communications Solutions and Chief Development Officer from February 2011 to February 2012 and as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communications Products and Chief Development Officer from October 2010 to February 2011. Prior to joining Polycom, Mr. Ramakrishna served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software at Motorola, Inc., a mobile device company, from May 2007 to October 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Ramakrishna served as Vice President, Product Operations at Stoke Inc. from June 2005 to May 2007. From March 2003 to June 2005, Mr. Ramakrishna served as Vice President, Product Management at 3Com Corporation and held a number of roles at 3Com Corporation from 1996 to 2003. Mr. Ramakrishna holds a M.S in Computer Science from Kansas State University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The information regarding executive compensation required by this item is included under the caption “Executive Compensation” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

The information regarding securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans required by this item is included under the caption “Executive Compensation—Equity Compensation Plan Information” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The information regarding security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management required by this item is included under the caption “Ownership of Securities” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

The information regarding transactions with related persons required by this item is included under the caption “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The information regarding director independence required by this item is included under the caption “Corporate Governance” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

The information required by this item is included under the caption “Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm—Principal Accounting Fees and Services” in the 2012 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Report:

1. Financial Statements (see Item 8 above).

Polycom, Inc. Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011.

2. Financial Statement Schedule (see Item 8 above). The following Financial Statement Schedule is filed as part of this Report:

Schedule II—Valuation and Qualifying Accounts.

Schedules not listed above have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.

3. Exhibits. See Item 15(b) below.

(b)

Exhibits

We have filed, or incorporated by reference into this Report, the exhibits listed on the accompanying Index to Exhibits.

(c)

Financial Statement Schedules.

See Items 8 and 15(a)(2) above.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

POLYCOM, INC.

/S/ ANDREW M. MILLER

Andrew M. Miller

Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

Date: February 17, 2012

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the undersigned officers and directors of Polycom, Inc., a Delaware corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint Andrew M. Miller and Michael R. Kourey, or either of them, the lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this report on Form 10-K and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the date indicated.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


Signature	Title	Date

/S/ ANDREW M. MILLER	Chief Executive Officer, President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	February 17, 2012
Andrew M. Miller

/S/ MICHAEL R. KOUREY	Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer	February 17, 2012
Michael R. Kourey
	(Principal Financial Officer)

/S/ LAURA J. DURR	Senior Vice President, Worldwide Controller	February 17, 2012
Laura J. Durr	(Principal Accounting Officer)

/S/ BETSY S. ATKINS	Director	February 17, 2012
Betsy S. Atkins

/S/ DAVID G. DEWALT	Chairman of the Board and Director	February 17, 2012
David G. DeWalt

/S/ JOHN A. KELLEY	Director	February 17, 2012
John A. Kelley


Signature	Title	Date

/S/ D. SCOTT MERCER	Director	February 17, 2012
D. Scott Mercer

/S/ WILLIAM A. OWENS	Director	February 17, 2012
William A. Owens

/S/ KEVIN T. PARKER	Director	February 17, 2012
Kevin T. Parker

POLYCOM, INC.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


		Page
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting		F-2
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		F-3
Consolidated Balance Sheets		F-4
Consolidated Statements of Operations		F-5
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income		F-6
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity		F-7
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows		F-8
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		F-9
Supplementary Financial Data (unaudited)		S-1
Financial Statement Schedule—Schedule II		S-2

F-1

MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

Management of our Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:

•

pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of our Company;

•

provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of our Company; and

•

provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions and that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

We conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on the results of this evaluation, management has concluded that, as of December 31, 2011 our internal control over financial reporting was effective to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

The effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011 has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which appears on page F-3.


/S/ ANDREW M. MILLER				/S/ MICHAEL R. KOUREY
Andrew M. Miller President and Chief Executive Officer				Michael R. Kourey Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer

February 17, 2012				February 17, 2012

F-2

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Polycom, Inc.:

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements listed in the index appearing on page F-1 present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Polycom, Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In addition, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing on page F-1 presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’s management is responsible for these financial statements and financial statement schedule, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing on page F-2. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements, on the financial statement schedule, and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our integrated audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company adopted new accounting rules for revenue recognition in 2010 and adopted new guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income in 2011.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/S/ PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP

San Jose, California

February 17, 2012

F-3

POLYCOM, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share and per share data)


	December 31,
	2011		2010
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	375,441	$	324,188
Short-term investments		159,426		170,154
Trade receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $1,732 and $1,844 in 2011 and 2010, respectively		219,557		154,507
Inventories		107,613		113,994
Deferred taxes		40,153		32,357
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		51,375		41,884

Total current assets		953,565		837,084
Property and equipment, net		130,047		110,321
Long-term investments		56,772		41,316
Goodwill		584,187		493,105
Purchased intangibles, net		78,883		26,580
Deferred taxes		20,930		18,388
Other assets		20,421		20,611

Total assets	$	1,844,805	$	1,547,405

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities
Accounts payable	$	113,922	$	90,890
Accrued payroll and employee-related liabilities		40,650		35,222
Deferred revenue		143,091		104,919
Other accrued liabilities		61,502		54,651

Total current liabilities		359,165		285,682
Long-term deferred revenue		83,143		55,292
Taxes payable		16,845		16,690
Deferred taxes		2,274		2,057
Other long-term liabilities		13,262		12,714

Total liabilities		474,689		372,435

Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)
Stockholders’ equity
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value:
Authorized: 5,000,000 shares. None issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2011 and 2010		—		—
Common stock, $0.0005 par value:
Authorized: 350,000,000 shares. Issued and outstanding: 176,316,968 shares in 2011 and 173,109,892 shares in 2010		40		40
Additional paid-in capital		1,246,201		1,162,201
Retained earnings		118,265		11,617
Accumulated other comprehensive income		5,610		1,112

Total stockholders’ equity		1,370,116		1,174,970

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	1,844,805	$	1,547,405

*	Shares have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the two-for-one split which was effective on July 1, 2011. See Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-4

POLYCOM, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Revenues
Product revenues	$	1,207,787		$	1,010,955		$	791,508
Service revenues		288,011			207,534			175,476

Total revenues		1,495,798			1,218,489			966,984

Cost of revenues
Cost of product revenues		481,634			401,319			335,696
Cost of service revenues		116,808			101,220			82,312

Total cost of revenues		598,442			502,539			418,008

Gross profit		897,356			715,950			548,976

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing		435,614			387,208			285,312
Research and development		201,067			148,991			117,575
General and administrative		82,901			74,661			54,011
Acquisition-related costs		9,688			—			—
Amortization of purchased intangibles		9,831			5,647			5,800
Restructuring costs		9,396			8,139			15,935
Litigation reserves and payments		—			1,235			700

Total operating expenses		748,497			625,881			479,333

Operating income		148,859			90,069			69,643
Interest and other income (expense), net		(1,639	)		(7,772	)		(2,087	)

Income before provision for income taxes		147,220			82,297			67,556
Provision for income taxes		11,406			13,888			17,677

Net income	$	135,814		$	68,409		$	49,879

Basic net income per share	$	0.77		$	0.40		$	0.30

Diluted net income per share	$	0.75		$	0.39		$	0.29

Weighted average shares outstanding for basic net income per share		176,426			170,662			167,999
Weighted average shares outstanding for diluted net income per share		181,195			176,370			171,118

*	Shares have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the two-for-one split which was effective on July 1, 2011. See Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-5

POLYCOM, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(in thousands, except per share data)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Net income	$	135,814		$	68,409		$	49,879

Other comprehensive income, net of tax:
Foreign currency translation adjustments		239			(3,138	)		805
Unrealized gains/(losses) on investments:
Unrealized holding losses arising during the period		(17	)		(809	)		(3,056	)
Net (gains)/losses reclassified into earnings		(28	)		6,497			271

Net unrealized gains/(losses) on investments	$	(45	)	$	5,688		$	(2,785	)

Unrealized gains/(losses) on hedging securities:
Unrealized hedge gains/(losses) arising during the period		1,444			4,046			(2,563	)
Net (gains)/losses reclassified into earnings for revenue hedges		7,113			(6,223	)		(6,421	)
Net (gains)/losses reclassified into earnings for expense hedges		(4,253	)		1,701			5,319

Net unrealized gains/(losses) on hedging securities	$	4,304		$	(476	)	$	(3,665	)

Other comprehensive income	$	4,498		$	2,074		$	(5,645	)

Comprehensive income	$	140,312		$	70,483		$	44,234

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-6

POLYCOM, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(in thousands, except share data)


	Common Stock						Additional Paid-In Capital			Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)			Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)			Total
	Shares*			Amount			Additional Paid-In Capital			Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)			Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)			Total
Balances, December 31, 2008		166,629,000		$	40		$	1,008,460		$	4,683		$	(44,841	)	$	968,342
Net income		—			—			—			—			49,879			49,879
Other comprehensive income		—			—			—			(5,645	)		—			(5,645	)
Issuance of vested performance shares and restricted stock units		1,182,296			—			—			—			—			—
Issuance of stock for Circa acquisition earn-out		90,000			—			—			—			—			—
Exercise of stock options under stock option plan		2,949,408			1			25,719			—			—			25,720
Shares purchased under employee stock purchase plan		1,796,928			—			10,777			—			—			10,777
Purchase and retirement of common stock at cost		(3,677,572	)		(1	)		(18,385	)		—			(17,053	)		(35,439	)
Stock-based compensation		—			—			30,358			—			—			30,358
Tax benefit from stock option activity		—			—			51			—			—			51
Cumulative tax adjustment		—			—			9,810			—			—			9,810

Balances, December 31, 2009		168,970,060		$	40		$	1,066,790		$	(962	)	$	(12,015	)	$	1,053,853

Net income		—			—			—			—			68,409			68,409
Other comprehensive income		—			—			—			2,074			—			2,074
Issuance of vested performance shares and restricted stock units		3,428,528			—			—			—			—			—
Issuance of stock for Circa acquisition earn-out		2			—			—			—			—			—
Exercise of stock options under stock option plan		5,314,530			1			52,184			—			—			52,185
Shares purchased under employee stock purchase plan		1,312,290			—			12,668			—			—			12,668
Purchase and retirement of common stock at cost		(5,915,518	)		(1	)		(39,427	)		—			(44,777	)		(84,205	)
Stock-based compensation		—			—			56,177			—			—			56,177
Tax benefit from stock option activity		—			—			10,434			—			—			10,434
Cumulative tax adjustment		—			—			3,375			—			—			3,375

Balances, December 31, 2010		173,109,892		$	40		$	1,162,201		$	1,112		$	11,617		$	1,174,970

Net income		—			—			—			—			135,814			135,814
Other comprehensive income		—			—			—			4,498			—			4,498
Issuance of vested performance shares and restricted stock units		3,355,830			—			—			—			—			—
Exercise of stock options under stock option plan		1,780,408			—			23,430			—			—			23,430
Shares purchased under employee stock purchase plan		1,143,614			—			17,368			—			—			17,368
Purchase and retirement of common stock at cost		(3,072,776	)		—			(35,771	)		—			(29,166	)		(64,937	)
Stock-based compensation		—			—			65,262			—			—			65,262
Tax benefit from stock option activity		—			—			13,504			—			—			13,504
Issuance of options in connection with acquisition		—			—			207			—			—			207

Balances, December 31, 2011		176,316,968		$	40		$	1,246,201		$	5,610		$	118,265		$	1,370,116

*	Shares have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the two-for-one split which was effective on July 1, 2011. See Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-7

POLYCOM, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income	$	135,814		$	68,409		$	49,879
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		52,564			41,440			34,075
Amortization of purchased intangibles		21,742			18,994			19,268
Provision for doubtful accounts		—			—			247
Provision for excess and obsolete inventories		8,567			5,712			3,830
Non-cash stock-based compensation		65,262			56,177			30,358
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation		(13,430	)		(11,618	)		(3,082	)
Write-down of investments other-than temporarily impaired		79			6,530			—
Loss on disposal of property and equipment		1,537			143			706
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Trade receivables		(63,009	)		(21,694	)		(6,563	)
Inventories		2,545			(42,843	)		9,037
Deferred taxes		(12,446	)		(3,537	)		2,223
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		(3,190	)		(29,537	)		8,474
Accounts payable		22,816			3,657			29,502
Taxes payable		13,496			2,770			2,222
Other accrued liabilities		67,298			48,797			588

Net cash provided by operating activities		299,645			143,400			180,764

Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment		(69,279	)		(69,331	)		(37,766	)
Purchases of investments		(372,567	)		(374,946	)		(538,440	)
Proceeds from sale of investments		41,461			102,079			332,518
Proceeds from maturity of investments		326,332			199,622			224,213
Net cash paid in acquisitions		(163,630	)		—			—

Net cash used in investing activities		(237,683	)		(142,576	)		(19,475	)

Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under employee option and stock purchase plans		40,798			64,854			36,497
Purchase and retirement of common stock		(64,937	)		(84,206	)		(35,439	)
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation		13,430			11,618			3,082

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities		(10,709	)		(7,734	)		4,140

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents		51,253			(6,910	)		165,429
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		324,188			331,098			165,669

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	375,441		$	324,188		$	331,098

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Non-cash consideration paid for acquisition	$	207		$	—		$	—
Cash paid for interest	$	544		$	834		$	575
Cash paid for income taxes	$	15,947		$	24,349		$	13,684

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

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POLYCOM, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:

Description of Business:

Polycom is a leading global provider of high-quality, easy-to-use communications solutions that enable enterprise, government, education and healthcare customers to more effectively collaborate over distance, time zones and organizational boundaries. Our solutions are built on architectures that enable unified video, voice and content communications.

Principles of Accounting and Consolidation:

These Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Use of Estimates:

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the Company’s financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents:

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturities of 90 days or less at the time of purchase to be cash equivalents.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts:

The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of the Company’s customers to make required payments. The Company reviews its allowance for doubtful accounts quarterly by assessing individual accounts receivable over a specific aging and amount, and all other balances on a pooled basis based on historical collection experience. If the financial conditions of the Company’s customers were to deteriorate, adversely affecting their abilities to make payments, additional allowances would be required. Delinquent account balances are written off after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.

Investments:

The Company’s short-term and long-term investments as of December 31, 2011 are comprised of U.S. and non-U.S. government securities, U.S. agency securities and corporate debt securities. The Company’s investment in corporate preferred equity securities was fully liquidated in 2010. Investments are classified as short-term or long-term based on their original or remaining maturities and whether the securities represent the investment of funds available for current operations. Nearly all investments are held in the Company’s name at a limited number of major financial institutions. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, all of the Company’s investments were classified as available-for-sale and were carried at fair value based on quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency at the end of the reporting period. Unrealized gains and losses are recorded as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity. If these investments are sold at a loss or are

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considered to have other than temporarily declined in value, a charge against earnings is recorded. The specific identification method is used to determine the cost of securities disposed of, with realized gains and losses reflected in interest and other income (expense), net.

For strategic reasons, the Company has made various investments in private companies. The private company investments are carried at cost and written down to estimated market value when indications exist that these investments have other than temporarily declined in value. The Company reviews these investments for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may exist and makes appropriate reductions in carrying value, if necessary. The Company evaluates a number of factors, including price per share of any recent financing, expected timing of additional financing, liquidation preferences, historical and forecasted earnings and cash flows, cash burn rate, and technological feasibility of the investee company’s products to assess whether or not the investment is impaired.

Inventories:

Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or market with cost computed on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis. Consideration is given to obsolescence, excessive levels, deterioration and other factors in evaluating net realizable value. The Company records write-downs for excess and obsolete inventory equal to the difference between the carrying value of inventory and the estimated fair value based upon assumptions about future product life-cycles, product demand and market conditions. At the point of the loss recognition, a new, lower-cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established cost basis.

Property and Equipment:

Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Estimated useful lives are one to thirteen years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed using the straight-line method over the shorter of the remaining lease term or the estimated useful life of the related assets, typically three to thirteen years. Disposals of capital equipment are recorded by removing the costs and accumulated depreciation from the accounts and gains or losses on disposals are included in the results of operations.

Goodwill:

Goodwill is not amortized but is regularly reviewed for potential impairment. In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on goodwill impairment testing which provides entities an option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The Company elected to early adopt this guidance in 2011 and such adoption did not have an impact to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. The identification and measurement of goodwill impairment involves the estimation of the fair value of the Company’s reporting units. The estimates of fair value of reporting units are based on the best information available as of the date of the assessment, which primarily incorporate management assumptions about expected future cash flows. Future cash flows can be affected by changes in industry or market conditions or the rate and extent to which anticipated synergies or cost savings are realized with newly acquired entities.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets:

Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from several months to eight years. Purchased intangible assets determined to have indefinite useful lives are not amortized. Long-lived assets, including intangible assets, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Determination of recoverability is based on an estimate of undiscounted future cash flows resulting from the use of the asset or group of assets and its eventual disposition. Measurement of an

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impairment loss for long-lived assets that management expects to hold and use is based on the estimated fair value of the asset. Long-lived assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of carrying amount or estimated fair value less costs to sell.

Guarantees:

Warranty

The Company provides for the estimated costs of product warranties at the time revenue is recognized. The specific terms and conditions of those warranties vary depending upon the product sold. In the case of hardware manufactured by the Company, warranties generally start from the date of purchase and continue for one to three years depending on the product purchased. Software products generally carry a 90-day warranty from the date of purchase. The Company’s liability under warranties on software products is to provide a corrected copy of any portion of the software found not to be in substantial compliance with the agreed upon specifications. Factors that affect the Company’s warranty obligation include product failure rates, material usage and service delivery costs incurred in correcting product failures. The Company assesses the adequacy of the recorded warranty liabilities every quarter and makes adjustments to the liability if necessary.

Changes in the warranty obligation during the period, which is included as a component of “Other accrued liabilities” on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, are as follows (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011			2010
Balance at beginning of year	$	9,569		$	9,447
Accruals for warranties issued during the year		24,612			19,683
Actual warranty claims received during the year		(22,295	)		(19,561	)

Balance at end of year	$	11,886		$	9,569

Deferred Maintenance Revenue

The Company offers maintenance contracts for sale on most of its products which allow for customers to receive service and support in addition to, or subsequent to, the expiration of the contractual product warranty. The Company recognizes the maintenance revenue from these contracts over the life of the service contract.

Deferred maintenance revenue, of which $141.1 million and $100.4 million is short-term and included as a component of “Deferred revenue” as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively; and $75.9 million and $46.4 million is long-term and is included as a component of “Long-term deferred revenue” as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, are as follows (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011			2010
Balance at beginning of year	$	146,840		$	109,538
Additions to deferred maintenance revenue		313,364			212,062
Amortization of deferred maintenance revenue		(243,177	)		(174,760	)

Balance at end of year	$	217,027		$	146,840

The cost of providing maintenance services for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 was $113.8 million, $97.1 million, and $78.6 million, respectively.

Officer and Director Indemnifications

As permitted or required under Delaware law and to the maximum extent allowable under that law, the Company has certain obligations to indemnify its current and former officers and directors for certain events or occurrences while the officer or director is, or was serving, at the Company’s request in such capacity. The

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maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification obligations is unlimited; however, the Company has a director and officer insurance policy that mitigates the Company’s exposure and enables the Company to recover a portion of any future amounts paid. As a result of the Company’s insurance policy coverage, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these indemnification obligations is not material.

Other Indemnifications

As is customary in the Company’s industry, as provided for in local law in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, the Company’s standard contracts provide remedies to its customers, such as defense, settlement, or payment of judgment for intellectual property claims related to the use of its products. From time to time, the Company indemnifies customers against combinations of loss, expense, or liability arising from various trigger events related to the sale and the use of its products and services. In addition, from time to time the Company also provides protection to customers against claims related to undiscovered liabilities, additional product liabilities or environmental obligations.

Revenue Recognition:

The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, title and risk of loss have transferred, product payment is not contingent upon performance of installation or service obligations, the price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured. In instances where final acceptance of the product or service is specified by the customer, revenue is deferred until all acceptance criteria have been met. Additionally, the Company generally recognizes maintenance service revenues on its hardware and software products ratably over the service periods of one to five years, and other services upon the completion of installation or professional services provided.

Some of the Company’s products are integrated with software that is essential to the functionality of the equipment. Additionally, the Company provides unspecified software upgrades and enhancements related to most of these products through maintenance contracts.

In October 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) amended the accounting standards for revenue recognition to remove tangible products containing software components and non-software components that function together to deliver the product’s essential functionality from the scope of the software revenue recognition guidance.

In October 2009, the FASB also amended the accounting standards for multiple deliverable revenue arrangements to:

•

provide updated guidance on whether multiple deliverables exist, how the deliverables in an arrangement should be separated, and how the consideration should be allocated;

•

require an entity to allocate revenue in an arrangement using estimated selling price (“ESP”) of deliverables if a vendor does not first have vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of selling price or secondly does not have third-party evidence (“TPE”) of selling price; and

•

eliminate the use of the residual method and require an entity to allocate revenue using the relative selling price method.

The Company elected to early adopt this accounting guidance at the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 on a prospective basis for applicable transactions originating or materially modified beginning on or after January 1, 2010.

A multiple-element arrangement includes the sale of one or more tangible product offerings with one or more associated services offerings, each of which are individually considered separate units of accounting. The determination of the Company’s units of accounting did not change with the early adoption of the revenue

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recognition guidance. Beginning with new or materially modified arrangements as of January 1, 2010, the Company allocates revenue to each element in a multiple-element arrangement based upon the relative selling price of each deliverable. When applying the relative selling price method, the Company determines the selling price for each deliverable using VSOE of selling price, if it exists, or TPE of selling price. If neither VSOE nor TPE of selling price exist for a deliverable, the Company uses its best estimate of selling price for that deliverable. Revenue allocated to each element is then recognized when the other revenue recognition criteria are met for each element.

VSOE is established based on the Company’s standard pricing and discounting practices for the specific product or service when sold separately. In determining VSOE, the Company requires that a substantial majority of the selling prices for a product or service fall within a reasonably narrow pricing range.

When VSOE cannot be established, the Company attempts to establish the selling price of each element based on TPE. TPE is determined based on competitor prices for similar deliverables when sold separately.

When the Company is unable to establish the selling price using VSOE or TPE, the Company uses ESP in its allocation of arrangement consideration. ESP represents the price at which the Company would transact a sale if the element were sold on a stand-alone basis. The Company determines ESP for a product by considering multiple factors including, but not limited to, geographies, market conditions, competitive landscape, and pricing practices. The determination of ESP is made based on review of historical sales price, taking into consideration the go-to-market strategy. Generally, the Company uses historical net selling prices to establish ESP. The Company regularly reviews its basis for establishing VSOE, TPE and ESP. The Company does not expect a material impact in the near term from changes in VSOE, TPE or ESP.

Channel Partner Programs and Incentives

The Company records estimated reductions to revenues for channel partner programs and incentive offerings including special pricing agreements, promotions and other volume-based incentives. The Company also accrues for co-op marketing funds as a marketing expense if the Company receives an identifiable benefit in exchange and can reasonably estimate the fair value of the identifiable benefit received; otherwise, it is recorded as a reduction to revenues.

Research and Development Expenditures:

Research and development expenditures are charged to operations as incurred and consist primarily of compensation costs, including stock compensation costs, outside services, expensed materials, depreciation and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. Software development costs incurred prior to the establishment of technological feasibility are included in research and development and are expensed as incurred. After technological feasibility is established, material software development costs are capitalized. The capitalized cost is amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated product life, or on the ratio of current revenues to total projected product revenues, whichever is greater. To date, the period between achieving technological feasibility, which the Company has defined as the establishment of a working model, which typically occurs when beta testing commences, and the general availability of such software has been short and software development costs qualifying for capitalization have been insignificant. Accordingly, the Company has not capitalized any software development costs.

Advertising:

The Company expenses the production costs of advertising as the expenses are incurred. The production costs of advertising consist primarily of trade shows, online media, magazine and radio advertisements, agency fees and other direct production costs. Advertising expense for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 was $21.4 million, $21.0 million, and $17.3 million, respectively.

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Income Taxes:

The Company accounts for income taxes under the liability method, which recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the difference between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established to reduce deferred tax assets when, based on available objective evidence, it is more likely than not that the benefit of such assets will not be realized.

The Company recognizes and measures benefits for uncertain tax positions using a two-step approach. The first step is to evaluate the tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon audit, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. For tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon audit, the second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon settlement. Significant judgment is required to evaluate uncertain tax positions. The Company evaluates its uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis. Evaluations are based upon a number of factors, including changes in facts or circumstances, changes in tax law, correspondence with tax authorities during the course of audits and effective settlement of audit issues. Changes in the recognition or measurement of uncertain tax positions could result in material increases or decreases in income tax expense in the period in which the change is made, which could have a material impact on the Company’s effective tax rate and operating results.

Foreign Currency Translation:

Assets and liabilities of non-U.S subsidiaries that operate in a local currency environment, where that local currency is the functional currency, are translated to U.S. dollars at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date, with the resulting translation adjustments directly recorded to a separate component of “Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)”. Income and expense accounts are translated at average exchange rates in effect during the period. Foreign exchange gains and losses have not been significant to date and are included in the Company’s results of operations as part of “Interest and other income (expense), net”.

The following table sets forth the components of foreign currency translation adjustments for December 31 (in thousands):


	2011		2010			2009
Beginning balance	$	1,602	$	4,740		$	3,935
Foreign currency translation adjustments		239		(3,138	)		805

Ending balance	$	1,841	$	1,602		$	4,740

Derivative Instruments:

The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. For a derivative instrument designated and qualifying as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of the derivative’s gain or loss is initially reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and is subsequently reclassified into earnings when the hedged exposure affects earnings. The excluded and ineffective portions of the gain or loss are reported in earnings immediately. For derivative instruments that are not designated as cash flow hedges, changes in fair value are recognized in earnings in the period of change. The Company does not hold or issue derivative financial instruments for speculative trading purposes. The Company enters into derivatives only with counterparties that are among the largest U.S. banks, ranked by assets, in order to minimize its credit risk.

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Computation of Net Income Per Share:

Basic net income per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period less common stock subject to repurchase. Diluted net income per share reflects the additional dilution from potential issuances of common stock, such as stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of stock options and warrants outstanding and shares of common stock subject to repurchase. Potentially dilutive shares (including shares of common stock which are subject to repurchase) are excluded from the computation of diluted net income per share when their effect is antidilutive.

On June 1, 2011, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend (“the stock split”). The stock split entitled each stockholder of record at the close of business on June 15, 2011 to receive one additional share of common stock for every one share of common stock owned as of that date, payable by the Company’s transfer agent on July 1, 2011. The par value of the Company’s common stock was maintained at the pre-split amount of $0.0005 per share. The Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto, including all share and per share data, have been restated as if the stock split had occurred as of the earliest period presented.

Fair Value Measurements:

The Company has certain financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value which have been classified as Level 1, 2 or 3 within the fair value hierarchy. Fair values determined by Level 1 inputs utilize quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access. Fair values determined by Level 2 inputs utilize data points that are observable such as quoted prices, interest rates and yield curves. Fair values determined by Level 3 inputs utilize unobservable data points for the asset or liability.

The carrying amounts reflected in the consolidated balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other accrued liabilities approximate fair value due to their short-term maturities.

Stock-Based Compensation:

The Company’s stock-based compensation programs consist of grants of stock-based awards to employees and non-employee directors, including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance shares, as well as the Company’s employee stock purchase plan. The estimated fair value of these awards is charged against income over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period.

The fair value of stock option and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) awards is estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The fair value of restricted stock units is based on the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. Compensation expense for restricted stock units, including the effect of forfeitures, is recognized over the applicable service period. The fair value of performance shares is based on the market price of the Company’s stock on the date of grant and assumes that the performance criteria will be met and the target payout level will be achieved. Compensation cost is adjusted for subsequent changes in the outcome of performance-related conditions until the award vests. The fair value of a performance share with a market condition is estimated on the date of award, using a Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate the total return ranking of the Company’s stock in relation to the target index of companies over each performance period. Compensation Cost on performance shares with a market condition is not adjusted for subsequent changes regardless of the level of ultimate vesting.

Business Combinations:

The Company recognizes separately from goodwill the fair value of assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred and the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. While the Company uses its best

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estimates and assumptions as a part of the purchase price allocation process to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, the Company’s estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Company may record adjustments retrospectively to the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax-related valuation allowances assumed in connection with a business combination are initially estimated as of the acquisition date. The Company reevaluates these items quarterly and records any adjustments to the Company’s preliminary estimates to goodwill provided that the Company is within the measurement period and the Company continues to collect information in order to determine their estimated fair values as of the date of acquisition. Subsequent to the measurement period or the Company’s final determination of the tax allowance’s estimated value, changes to these uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances will affect the Company’s provision for income taxes in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Recent Pronouncements:

In June 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income that will become effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2012, with earlier adoption permitted. This standard eliminates the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. The Company elected to early adopt this guidance in 2011, and such adoption did not have a material impact to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

2. Business Combinations:

During 2011, we completed three business combinations. On March 21, 2011, we completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Accordent Technologies, Inc. (“Accordent”), a privately-held video content management and delivery solutions company. On July 27, 2011, we acquired the assets of the Hewlett-Packard Visual Collaboration (“HPVC”) business, including the Halo Products and Managed Services business. On October 14, 2011, we acquired ViVu, Inc. (“ViVu”), a privately-held video collaboration software company. The total net cash paid in 2011 for these business combinations was $163.6 million, plus non-cash consideration of $0.2 million. We have included the financial results of Accordent, HPVC and ViVu in our Consolidated Financial Statements from their respective dates of acquisition. Pro forma results of operations for the acquisitions completed during the year have not been presented because the effects of the acquisitions, individually and in the aggregate, were not material to the Company’s financial results.

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The following table summarizes the allocation of the total purchase consideration to the assets and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition dates (in thousands):


Tangible assets:
Current assets	$	8,204
Property and equipment		2,990
Long-term assets		1,257

Total tangible assets acquired		12,451

Liabilities:
Current liabilities		(7,786	)
Long-term liabilities		(4,362	)

Total liabilities assumed		(12,148	)
Fair value of net assets acquired		303
Intangible assets consisting of:
Core and developed technology		20,600
Customer and partner relationships		50,100
Trade name		1,400
In-Process Research and Development (“IPRD”)		1,400
Other		500
Deferred tax liability		(1,625	)
Goodwill		91,159

Total consideration	$	163,837

Goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes. The goodwill generated from the Company’s business combinations completed during the year ended December 31, 2011 is primarily attributable to expected synergies. The fair values of intangible assets were calculated based on the income and cost approaches and are being amortized over 8 months to 6 years. The acquisition-related costs were expensed as incurred. The Company may adjust the preliminary purchase price allocation after giving consideration to final valuation reports and obtaining more information regarding, among other things, asset valuations, liabilities assumed, and revisions of preliminary estimates.

3. Goodwill and Purchased Intangibles:

The Company completed its annual goodwill impairment test as of October 1, 2011 and 2010. In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on goodwill impairment testing which provides entities an option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The Company elected to early adopt this guidance for its 2011 impairment test which resulted in the Company performing a qualitative assessment to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more likely than not that the fair values of the Company’s reporting units are less than their carrying amounts. Based on the qualitative assessment, the Company determined that it is not more likely than not that the fair values are less than their carrying amounts, therefore no further impairment testing was performed.

The following table presents the changes in carrying amount of goodwill in each of the Company’s segments as of December 31, 2011 (in thousands):


	Segments
	Americas		EMEA			APAC			Total
Balance at December 31, 2010	$	276,732	$	91,930		$	124,443		$	493,105
Add: Goodwill resulting from acquisitions		45,413		19,641			26,589			91,643
Foreign currency translation		—		(238	)		(323	)		(561	)

Balance at December 31, 2011	$	322,145	$	111,333		$	150,709		$	584,187

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The following table presents details of the Company’s total purchased intangible assets as of December 31 (in thousands):


	2011										2010
Purchased Intangible Assets	Gross Value		Accumulated Amortization			Accumulated Impairment			Net Value		Gross Value		Accumulated Amortization			Accumulated Impairment			Net Value
Core and developed technology	$	129,778	$	(101,713	)	$	(4,650	)	$	23,415	$	109,178	$	(89,857	)	$	(4,650	)	$	14,671
Customer and partner relationships		94,725		(44,586	)		—			50,139		44,625		(36,815	)		—			7,810
Trade name		10,503		(7,760	)		(150	)		2,593		9,103		(6,289	)		(150	)		2,664
IPRD		1,400		—			—			1,400		—		—			—			—
Other		5,362		(4,334	)		(610	)		418		4,862		(3,735	)		(610	)		517

Finite lives Intangible Assets		241,768		(158,393	)		(5,410	)		77,965		167,768		(136,696	)		(5,410	)		25,662
Indefinite life trade name		918		—			—			918		918		—			—			918

Total	$	242,686	$	(158,393	)	$	(5,410	)	$	78,883	$	168,686	$	(136,696	)	$	(5,410	)	$	26,580

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, the Company recorded amortization expense related to purchased intangibles of $9.8 million, $5.7 million, and $5.8 million, respectively, which is included in “Amortization of purchased intangibles” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In 2011, 2010, and 2009, the Company recorded approximately $11.9 million, $13.3 million, and $13.5 million, respectively, of amortization of purchased intangibles to “Cost of Product Revenues” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Amortization of intangibles is not allocated to the Company’s segments.

The Company determined that a purchased trade name intangible of $0.9 million had an indefinite life as the Company expects to generate cash flows related to this asset indefinitely. Consequently, this trade name is no longer amortized but is reviewed for impairment annually or sooner under certain circumstances.

The Company evaluates its purchased intangibles for possible impairment on an ongoing basis. When impairment indicators exist, the Company performs an assessment to determine if the intangible asset has been impaired and to what extent. The assessment of purchased intangibles impairment is conducted by first estimating the undiscounted future cash flows to be generated from the use and eventual disposition of the purchased intangibles and comparing this amount with the carrying value of these assets. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying amounts, impairment exists and future cash flows are discounted at an appropriate rate and compared to the carrying amounts of the purchased intangibles to determine the amount of the impairment. There were no indicators of impairment during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009.

The estimated future amortization expense of purchased intangible assets as of December 31, 2011 is as follows (in thousands):


Year ending December 31,	Amount
2012	$	24,370
2013		15,490
2014		13,359
2015		11,075
2016		9,235
Thereafter		4,436

Total	$	77,965

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4. Balance Sheet Details:

Inventories consist of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
Raw materials	$	4,690	$	6,405
Work in process		1,006		991
Finished goods		101,917		106,598

	$	107,613	$	113,994

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
Non-trade receivables	$	9,534	$	14,317
Prepaid expenses		32,010		21,848
Other current assets		9,831		5,719

	$	51,375	$	41,884

Property and equipment, net, consist of the following (in thousands):


			December 31,
	Estimated useful Life		2011			2010
Computer equipment and software		3 to 5 years	$	219,788		$	184,650
Equipment, furniture and fixtures		1 to 5 years		93,686			76,578
Tooling equipment		3 years		21,287			19,900
Leasehold improvements		3 to 13 years		50,730			36,758

				385,491			317,886
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization				(255,444	)		(207,565	)

			$	130,047		$	110,321

Deferred revenues consist of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
Short-term:
Service	$	141,116	$	100,446
Product		575		3,073
License		1,400		1,400

	$	143,091	$	104,919

Long-term:
Service	$	75,911	$	46,394
Product		57		323
License		7,175		8,575

	$	83,143	$	55,292

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Other accrued liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
Accrued expenses	$	15,496	$	12,751
Accrued co-op expenses		4,862		6,104
Restructuring reserves		3,150		3,262
Warranty obligations		11,886		9,569
Derivative liability		4,609		4,998
Employee stock purchase plan withholding		11,116		7,129
Other accrued liabilities		10,383		10,838

	$	61,502	$	54,651

5. Restructuring Costs:

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, the Company recorded $9.4 million, $8.1 million, and $15.9 million, respectively, related to restructuring actions that resulted from the elimination or relocation of various positions as part of restructuring plans approved by management. These actions are generally intended to streamline and focus the Company’s efforts and more properly align the Company’s cost structure with its projected revenue streams.

The following table summarizes the activity of the Company’s restructure reserves (in thousands):


Balance at December 31, 2008	$	1,783
Additions to the reserve		15,935
Cash payments and other usage		(11,935	)

Balance at December 31, 2009		5,783
Additions to the reserve		8,139
Cash payments and other usage		(10,701	)

Balance at December 31, 2010		3,221
Additions to the reserve		9,396
Cash payments and other usage		(9,677	)

Balance at December 31, 2011	$	2,940

During 2011 management also completed the consolidation of its Colorado facilities and began the transition of certain engineering and product management and related support functions in its Andover, Massachusetts facility to other locations in order to achieve efficiencies. Restructuring charges relating to these actions primarily included costs for idle facilities and, to a lesser extent, severance and relocation costs for impacted individuals.

In October 2011, management committed to a restructuring plan designed to better align and allocate resources to more strategic growth areas of the business. These actions are primarily related to the reorganization of its global go-to-market and other organizations. The restructuring plan will result in the elimination of approximately seven percent of its global workforce with the majority of the reductions taking effect in the fourth quarter of 2011 and first quarter of 2012, enabling the creation of new positions that better align with its strategic initiatives. In the fourth quarter of 2011, the Company recorded charges totaling $5.0 million related to these actions and the Company currently expect to record additional restructuring charges and make cash expenditures between approximately $6.0 million and $7.0 million through the third quarter of 2012 resulting from this action, primarily related to severance and other employee termination benefits.

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In addition, the Company has approved plans to consolidate and eliminate certain facilities in order to gain efficiencies, including the combination of its headquarters and San Jose and Santa Clara, California operations into one new location in San Jose, California. As a result, the Company expects to record approximately $12.0 million in additional restructuring charges related to idle facilities upon vacating these facilities in the second quarter of 2012.

During 2010, the Company committed to several restructuring plans to eliminate, relocate positions or to enable the hiring of additional positions to better align with the execution of its strategic initiatives. The restructuring plans included the elimination of approximately two percent of its global workforce. As a result of the actions taken in 2010, the Company recorded restructuring charges of $8.1 million during 2010 which also included $1.8 million of restructuring costs associated with actions taken in the third quarter of 2009. These restructuring costs are primarily related to severance and other employee termination benefits.

During the third quarter of 2009, the Company committed to a restructuring plan to realign and reinvest resources in the strategic growth areas of the business. The Company eliminated those positions that were not aligned with the go-to-market structure under the Company’s new sales leadership and reallocate resources to growth areas. The plan included the elimination of approximately four percent of the Company’s global workforce. In addition to the actions taken in the third quarter of 2009, the Company eliminated certain positions during the first and second quarters of 2009 related to eliminating approximately six percent of its workforce at the beginning of the year, as well as consolidating certain functions in its shared services center in Beijing, China. As a result of the actions taken in 2009, the Company recorded restructuring charges of $15.9 million during 2009, primarily related to severance and other employee termination benefits.

6. Investments and Fair Value Measurements:

The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $375.4 million and $324.2 million at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash in banks, as well as highly liquid investments in money market funds, time deposits, savings accounts, commercial paper, U.S. government and agency securities, municipal securities and corporate debt securities. At December 31, 2011, the Company’s long-term investments had contractual maturities of one to two years.

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In addition, the Company has short-term and long-term investments in debt and equity securities which are summarized as follows: (in thousands):


	Cost Basis		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
Balances at December 31, 2011:
Investments—Short-term:
U.S. government securities	$	15,135	$	3	$	—		$	15,138
U.S. government agency securities		79,299		33		(4	)		79,328
Non-U.S. government securities		1,724		2		(1	)		1,725
Corporate debt securities		63,204		42		(11	)		63,235

Total investments – short-term	$	159,362	$	80	$	(16	)	$	159,426

Investments—Long-term:
U.S. government securities	$	11,455	$	—	$	(2	)	$	11,453
U.S. government agency securities		34,506		10		(4	)		34,512
Non-U.S. government securities		—		—		—			—
Corporate debt securities		10,835		2		(30	)		10,807

Total investments – long-term	$	56,796	$	12	$	(36	)	$	56,772

Balances at December 31, 2010:
Investments—Short-term:
U.S. government securities	$	8,379	$	3	$	(1	)	$	8,381
U.S. government agency securities		92,857		57		(4	)		92,910
Non-U.S. government securities		—		—		—			—
Corporate debt securities		68,833		43		(13	)		68,863

Total investments – short-term	$	170,069	$	103	$	(18	)	$	170,154

Investments—Long-term:
U.S. government securities	$	3,211	$	2	$	—		$	3,213
U.S. government agency securities		16,991		23		(29	)		16,986
Non-U.S. government securities		529		—		—			529
Corporate debt securities		20,584		22		(17	)		20,588

Total investments – long-term	$	41,315	$	47	$	(46	)	$	41,316

As of December 31, 2011, the Company’s total cash and cash equivalents and investments held in the United States totaled $151.4 million with the remaining $440.2 million held by various foreign subsidiaries outside of the United States.

U.S. Government Securities

The Company’s U.S. government securities mostly comprised of direct U.S. Treasury obligations that are guaranteed by the U.S. government. To ensure that the investment portfolio is sufficiently diversified, the Company’s investment policy requires that a certain percentage of the Company’s portfolio be invested in these types of securities.

U.S. Government Agency Securities

The Company’s U.S. government agency securities are mostly comprised of U.S. government agency instruments, including mortgage-backed securities. To ensure that the investment portfolio is sufficiently diversified, the Company’s investment policy requires that a certain percentage of the Company’s portfolio be invested in these types of securities.

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Non-U.S. Government Securities

The Company’s Non-U.S. government securities are mostly comprised of non-U.S. government instruments, including state, municipal and foreign government securities. To ensure that the investment portfolio is sufficiently diversified, the Company’s investment policy allows a certain percentage of the Company’s portfolio be invested in these types of securities.

Corporate Debt Securities

The Company’s corporate debt securities are comprised of publicly-traded domestic and foreign corporate debt securities. The Company does not purchase auction rate securities, and investments are in instruments that meet high quality credit rating standards, as specified in the Company’s investment policy guidelines. These guidelines also limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issuer or type of instrument.

Unrealized Losses

The following table summarizes the fair value and gross unrealized losses of the Company’s investments, including those securities that are categorized as cash equivalents, with unrealized losses (in thousands), aggregated by type of investment instrument and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position as of December 31, 2011 and 2010:


	Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Greater					Total
	Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Gross Unrealized Losses
December 31, 2011:
US government securities	$	15,222	$	(2	)	$	—	$	—		$	15,222	$	(2	)
US government agency securities		32,790		(8	)		—		—			32,790		(8	)
Non-U.S. government securities		5,054		(3	)		—		—			5,054		(3	)
Corporate debt and equity securities		29,511		(42	)		—		—			29,511		(42	)

Total investments	$	82,577	$	(55	)	$	—	$	—		$	82,577	$	(55	)

December 31, 2010:
US government securities	$	3,135	$	(1	)	$	—	$	—		$	3,135	$	(1	)
US government agency securities		44,087		(36	)		—		—			44,087		(36	)
Non-U.S. government securities		695		—			—		—			695		—
Corporate debt and equity securities		54,615		(38	)		1,058		(1	)		55,673		(39	)

Total investments	$	102,532	$	(75	)	$	1,058	$	(1	)	$	103,590	$	(76	)

The Company reviews the individual securities in its portfolio to determine whether a decline in a security’s fair value below the amortized cost basis is other-than-temporary. If the decline in fair value is considered to be other-than-temporary, the cost basis of the individual security is written down to its fair value as a new cost basis, and the amount of the write-down is accounted for as a realized loss and included in earnings. During the year ended December 31, 2010, as a result of its change in strategy with respect to its capital gains program, the Company determined that certain corporate preferred equity securities were other-than temporarily impaired, which resulted in a write-down of approximately $6.5 million. The Company concluded that the impairment was other-than-temporary based upon the Company’s decision to liquidate the securities in a relatively short period of time and an assessment of the individual holdings. The Company fully liquidated these investments during 2010 at an actual loss of $5.7 million from their original cost, resulting in a realized gain of $0.8 million on the new cost basis of these investments. There were no such impairments during 2011. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, the Company determined that there were no investments in its portfolio that were other-than temporarily impaired.

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Private Company Investments

For strategic reasons the Company has made various investments in private companies. The cost method of accounting is used to account for these investments as we hold a non-material ownership percentage and are written down to their estimated net realizable value when indications exist that these investments have been impaired. These investments are recorded in “Other assets” in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets and the balances were $2.0 million and $2.5 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

Fair Value Measurements

Fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As the basis for considering such assumptions, a three-tier value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows: (Level 1) observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets; (Level 2) inputs other than the quoted prices in active markets that are observable either directly or indirectly; and (Level 3) unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require the Company to develop its own assumptions. This hierarchy requires the Company to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs when determining fair value. On a recurring basis, the Company measures certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value, including its marketable securities and foreign currency contracts.

The Company’s cash and investment instruments are classified within Level 1 or Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using inputs such as quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. The types of instruments valued based on quoted market prices in active markets include money market funds. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

As of December 31, 2011, the Company’s fixed income available-for-sale securities include U.S. Treasury securities and other government agencies (54%), corporate bonds (29%), commercial paper (7%), non-U.S. government securities (3%), and money market funds (7%). Included in available-for-sale securities is approximately $41.4 million of cash equivalents, which consist of investments with original maturities of three months or less and include money market funds.

The Company used to invest in non-fixed income available-for-sale securities which represented preferred equity securities which were part of a capital gains capture program that generated capital gains to offset capital losses. During 2010, the Company changed its strategy with respect to its capital gains capture program and fully liquidated these investments at a loss.

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The principal market where the Company executes its foreign currency contracts is the retail market in an over-the-counter environment with a relatively high level of price transparency. The market participants and the Company’s counterparties are large money center banks and regional banks. The Company’s foreign currency contracts valuation inputs are based on quoted prices and quoted pricing intervals from public data sources (specifically, spot exchange rates, LIBOR rates and credit default rates) and do not involve management judgment. These contracts are typically classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. The fair value of the Company’s marketable securities and foreign currency contracts was determined using the following inputs at December 31, 2011 (in thousands):


			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
Description	Total		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets		Significant Other Observable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)
Assets:
Fixed income available-for-sale securities(a)	$	257,607	$	17,157	$	240,450
Non-fixed income available-for-sale securities(b)	$	235		—	$	235
Foreign currency forward contracts(c)	$	9,216		—	$	9,216
Liabilities:
Foreign currency forward contracts(d)	$	4,609		—	$	4,609

(a)	Included in cash and cash equivalents and short and long-term investments on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

(b)	Included in other non-current assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

(c)	Included in short term derivative asset as prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

(d)	Included in short term derivative liability as other accrued liabilities on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

7. Business Risks and Credit Concentration:

The Company sells products and services which serve the communications equipment market globally. Substantially all of the Company’s revenues are derived from sales of its products and their related services. A substantial majority of the Company’s revenue is from value-added resellers, distributors and service providers. In 2011, 2010 and 2009, one channel partner, Scansource Communications, accounted for more than 10% of its total net revenues. Any factors adversely affecting demand or supply for these products or services could materially adversely affect the Company’s business and financial performance. In particular, economic conditions worldwide have contributed from time to time to slowdowns in the communications and networking industries and have caused a negative impact on the specific segments and markets in which the Company operates. As its business has grown, the Company has become increasingly exposed to these adverse changes in general economic conditions, which can result in reductions in capital expenditures by end-user customers for its products, longer sales cycles, the deferral or delay of purchase commitments for its products and increased competition. These factors have adversely impacted the Company’s operating results in prior periods, including most recently in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Despite some recent signs of stabilization and the Company’s growth in revenues in 2011, global economic concerns such as the varying pace of global economic recovery and the recent sovereign debt crisis continue to create uncertainty and unpredictability which cause the Company to continue to be cautious about its future outlook. A global economic downturn would negatively impact technology spending for the Company’s products and services and could materially adversely affect its business, operating results and financial condition.

The Company subcontracts the manufacture of most of its products to Celestica, Askey, Flextronics, Foxconn and VTech, which are all third-party contract manufacturers. The Company uses Celestica’s facilities in Thailand and China, Flextronics’ facilities in Mexico and Askey’s, Foxconn’s and VTech’s facilities in China and should there be any disruption in services due to natural disaster, terrorist acts, quarantines or other

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disruptions associated with infectious diseases, or economic or political difficulties in any of these countries or Asia or for any other reason, such disruption would harm its business and results of operations. While the Company had begun to develop secondary manufacturing sources for certain products, Celestica’s facilities are currently the manufacturer for substantially all of these products, which means the Company is essentially sole-sourced for the manufacturing of such products, and if Celestica experiences an interruption in operations, suffers from capacity constraints, which may include constraints based on production demands from the Company as it grows its business, or is otherwise unable to meet the Company’s current or future production requirements the Company would experience a delay or inability to ship its products, which would have an immediate negative impact on its revenues. Moreover, any incapacitation of any of the Company’s or its subcontractors’ manufacturing sites, due to destruction, natural disaster or similar events could result in a loss of product inventory. As a result of any of the foregoing, the Company may not be able to meet demand for its products, which could negatively affect revenues in the quarter of the disruption or longer depending upon the magnitude of the event, and could harm its reputation. In addition, operating in the international environment exposes us to certain inherent risks, including unexpected changes in regulatory requirements and tariffs, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations and potentially adverse tax consequences, all of which could harm the Company’s business and results of operations.

The Company’s cash, cash equivalents and investments are maintained with a limited number of investment management companies and commercial banks and their international affiliates, and are invested in the form of demand deposit accounts, time deposits, savings accounts, money market accounts, corporate debt securities, government securities and municipal securities. Deposits in any one financial institution may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits and not all deposits and investments are covered by insurance.

The Company markets its products to distributors and end-users throughout the world. Management performs ongoing credit evaluations of the Company’s customers and maintains an allowance for potential credit losses. The Company’s credit risk may increase with the expansion of Polycom’s product offerings as customers place larger orders for initial stocking orders and its growth in emerging markets. There can be no assurance that the Company’s credit loss experience will remain at or near historic levels. At December 31, 2011 and 2010, no single customer accounted for more than 10% of gross accounts receivable.

The Company has purchased licenses for technology incorporated in its products. The value of these long-term assets is monitored for any impairment and if it is determined that a write-down is necessary, this charge could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows. There were no such charges in 2011, 2010, and 2009.

8. Commitments and Contingencies:

Litigation and Settlement Agreements:

During 2010, the Company recorded $1.2 million of Litigation reserves and payments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations related to the settlement of a legal matter during the period. During 2011, the Company did not record any such reserves and payments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

From time to time, the Company is involved in other claims and legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of business. The Company expects that the number and significance of these matters will increase as business expands. In particular, the Company expects to face an increasing number of patent and other intellectual property claims as the number of products and competitors in Polycom’s industry grows and the functionality of products overlap. Any claims or proceedings against the Company, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, require significant amounts of management time, result in the diversion of significant operational resources, or require the Company to enter into royalty or licensing agreements which, if required, may not be available on terms favorable to the Company or at all. If management believes that a loss arising from these matters is probable and can be reasonably estimated, the Company will record the amount of the loss. As additional information becomes available, any potential liability related to these

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matters is assessed and the estimates revised. Based on currently available information, management does not believe that the ultimate outcomes of these unresolved matters, individually and in the aggregate, are likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, liquidity or results of operations. However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and the Company’s view of these matters may change in the future. Were an unfavorable outcome to occur, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position, liquidity and results of operations for the period in which the unfavorable outcome occurs or becomes probable, and potentially in future periods.

Standby Letters of Credit:

The Company has standby letters of credit totaling approximately $2.3 million and $2.1 million at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

License Agreements:

The Company enters into various license agreements in the normal course of business and the cost of these agreements are amortized over the expected life of the respective agreements. The cost of these agreements and the amounts amortized in the years presented, both combined and individually, are not significant.

Leases:

The Company leases certain office facilities and equipment under noncancelable operating leases expiring between 2012 and 2021. As of December 31, 2011, the following future minimum lease payments are due under the current lease obligations. There were no sublease assumptions included in the future minimum lease payments. In addition to these minimum lease payments, the Company is contractually obligated under the majority of its operating leases to pay certain operating expenses during the term of the lease such as maintenance, taxes and insurance. This table excludes leases expiring or subject to cancellation within twelve months subsequent to December 31, 2011 (in thousands):


	Minimum Lease Payments
Year ending December 31,
2012	$	20,308
2013		21,778
2014		25,125
2015		20,876
2016		18,434
Thereafter		69,665

Total payments	$	176,186

Rent expense, including the effect of any future rent escalations or rent holiday periods, is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease which is deemed to commence upon the Company gaining access and control of the facility. Rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 was $28.5 million, $23.3 million, and $21.0 million, respectively. The short-term deferred lease obligation included in other accrued liabilities was $1.0 million and $1.8 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The long-term deferred lease obligation included in other long-term liabilities was $5.3 million and $4.8 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. In the event the Company does not exercise its option to extend the term of any of its leases, or when any of these leases expire, the Company may incur certain costs to restore the properties to conditions in place at the time of commencement of the lease. The Company is unable to estimate the fair value of these restoration costs as these costs cannot be determined until the end of the lease term and at times can be based on the landlord’s discretion and subsequent negotiations between the landlord and the Company. However, the Company does not believe that these costs would be significant.

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9. Foreign Currency Derivatives:

The Company maintains a foreign currency risk management program that is designed to reduce the volatility of the Company’s economic value from the effects of unanticipated currency fluctuations. International operations generate both revenues and costs denominated in foreign currencies. The Company’s policy is to hedge significant foreign currency revenues and costs to improve margin visibility and reduce earnings volatility associated with unexpected changes in currency.

Non-Designated Hedges

The Company hedges its net foreign currency monetary assets and liabilities monthly, primarily resulting from foreign currency denominated receivables and payables with foreign exchange forward contracts to reduce the risk that the Company’s earnings and cash flows will be adversely affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. These derivative instruments are carried at fair value with changes in the fair value recorded as interest and other income (expense), net. These derivative instruments do not subject the Company to material balance sheet risk due to exchange rate movements because gains and losses on these derivatives are intended to offset remeasurement gains and losses on the hedged assets and liabilities. The Company executes non-designated foreign exchange forward contracts primarily denominated in Euros, British Pounds, Israeli Shekels, Brazilian Reais, and Mexican Pesos.

The following table summarizes the Company’s notional position by currency, and approximate U.S. dollar equivalent, at December 31, 2011 of the outstanding non-designated hedges (foreign currency and dollar amounts in thousands):


	Original Maturities of 360 Days or Less						Original Maturities of Greater than 360 Days
	Foreign Currency		USD Equivalent		Positions		Foreign Currency		USD Equivalent		Positions
Euro		33,124	$	43,194		Buy		5,999	$	7,832		Buy
Euro		41,758	$	55,323		Sell		30,255	$	39,502		Sell
British Pound		5,670	$	8,868		Buy		5,758	$	8,821		Buy
British Pound		9,930	$	15,536		Sell		6,244	$	9,565		Sell
Israeli Shekel		16,236	$	4,309		Buy		20,377	$	5,634		Buy
Israeli Shekel		27,520	$	7,215		Sell		—	$	—		—
Mexican Peso		5,178	$	371		Buy		—	$	—		—
Mexican Peso		10,472	$	757		Sell		—	$	—		—
Brazilian Real		388	$	180		Buy		—	$	—		—
Brazilian Real		777	$	419		Sell		—	$	—		—

The following table shows the effect of the Company’s non-designated hedges in the consolidated statement of operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 (in thousands):


Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Location of Gain or (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative	Amount of Gain or (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative
Foreign exchange contracts	Interest and other income (expense), net	$ (357)

Cash Flow Hedges

The Company’s foreign exchange risk management program objective is to reduce volatility in the Company’s economic value from unanticipated foreign currency fluctuations. The Company designates forward contracts as cash flow hedges of foreign currency revenues and expenses, primarily the Euro, British Pound and Israeli Shekel. All foreign exchange contracts are carried at fair value on the balance sheet and the maximum duration of foreign exchange forward contracts do not exceed thirteen months. Speculation is prohibited by policy.

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To receive hedge accounting treatment, all cash flow hedging relationships are formally designated at hedge inception, and tested both prospectively and retrospectively to ensure the forward contracts are highly effective in offsetting changes to future cash flows on the hedged transactions. The Company records effective spot to spot changes in these cash flow hedges in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) until they are reclassified to revenue, cost of goods sold or operating expenses together with the hedged transaction. The time value on forward contracts is excluded from effectiveness testing and recorded to interest and other income (expense), net over the life of the contract together with any ineffective portion of the hedge.

The following tables show the effect of the Company’s derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges in the consolidated statements of operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Gain or (Loss) Recognized in OCI—Effective Portion		Location of Gain or (Loss) Reclassified from OCI into Income—Effective Portion	Gain or (Loss) Reclassified from OCI into Income— Effective Portion			Location of Gain or (Loss) Recognized—Ineffective Portion and Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing	Gain or (Loss) Recognized— Ineffective Portion and Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing(a)
Foreign exchange contracts	$	1,444	Product revenues	$	(7,113	)	Interest and other income (expense), net	$	(378	)
Foreign exchange contracts			Cost of revenues		388
Foreign exchange contracts			Sales and marketing		2,979
Foreign exchange contracts			Research and development		493
Foreign exchange contracts			General and administrative		393

Total	$	1,444		$	(2,860	)		$	(378	)


	Year Ended December 31, 2010
	Gain or (Loss) Recognized in OCI—Effective Portion		Location of Gain or (Loss) Reclassified from OCI into Income—Effective Portion	Gain or (Loss) Reclassified from OCI into Income— Effective Portion			Location of Gain or (Loss) Recognized—Ineffective Portion and Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing	Gain or (Loss) Recognized— Ineffective Portion and Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing(a)
Foreign exchange contracts	$	4,046	Product revenues	$	6,223		Interest and other income (expense), net	$	70
Foreign exchange contracts			Cost of revenues		(269	)
Foreign exchange contracts			Sales and marketing		(1,729	)
Foreign exchange contracts			Research and development		359
Foreign exchange contracts			General and administrative		(62	)

Total	$	4,046		$	4,522			$	70

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(a)

For the year ended December 31, 2011, no gain/loss was recorded for the ineffective portion and a $0.4 million loss was recorded for the excluded time value portion of the hedge. For the year ended December 31, 2010, no gain/loss was recorded for the ineffective portion and a $0.1 million gain was recorded for the excluded time value portion of the hedge.

As of December 31, 2011, the Company estimated all values reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) will be reclassified to income within the next twelve months.

The following table summarizes the derivative-related activity in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (in thousands and not tax-effected):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010
Beginning balance	$	(574	)	$	(98	)
Net gains/losses reclassified into earnings for revenue hedges		7,113			(6,223	)
Net gains/losses reclassified into earnings for expense hedges		(4,253	)		1,701
Net change in fair value of cash flow hedges		1,444			4,046

Ending balance	$	3,730		$	(574	)

In the event the underlying forecasted transaction does not occur, or it becomes probable that it will not occur, the related hedge gains and losses on the cash flow hedge would be immediately reclassified to interest and other income (expense), net on the consolidated statements of operations. For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, there were no such gains or losses.

The following table summarizes the Company’s notional position by currency, and approximate U.S. dollar equivalent, at December 31, 2011 of the outstanding cash flow hedges, all of which are carried at fair value on the balance sheet (foreign currency and dollar amounts in thousands):


	Original Maturities of 360 Days or Less						Original Maturities of Greater than 360 Days
	Foreign Currency		USD Equivalent		Positions		Foreign Currency		USD Equivalent		Positions
Euro		6,647	$	8,786		Buy		17,492	$	24,322		Buy
Euro		5,940	$	7,971		Sell		64,207	$	89,284		Sell
British Pound		4,509	$	7,040		Buy		16,791	$	26,485		Buy
British Pound		4,437	$	6,931		Sell		17,938	$	28,280		Sell
Israeli Shekel		11,568	$	3,065		Buy		58,110	$	16,246		Buy

The estimates of fair value are based on applicable and commonly quoted prices and prevailing financial market information as of December 31, 2011. See Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the fair value measurements for all financial assets and liabilities, including derivative assets and derivative liabilities that are measured at fair value in the Consolidated Financial Statements on a recurring basis. The following table shows the Company’s derivative instruments measured at gross fair value as reflected in the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 (in thousands):


	December 31, 2011				December 31, 2010
	Fair Value of Derivatives Designated as Hedge Instruments		Fair Value of Derivatives Not Designated as Hedge Instruments		Fair Value of Derivatives Designated as Hedge Instruments		Fair Value of Derivatives Not Designated as Hedge Instruments
Derivative assets(a):
Foreign exchange contracts	$	7,345	$	1,871	$	3,025	$	2,632
Derivative liabilities(b):
Foreign exchange contracts	$	3,796	$	813	$	3,503	$	1,495

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(a)	All derivative assets are recorded as prepaid expenses and other current assets in the consolidated balance sheets.

(b)	All derivative liabilities are recorded as other accrued liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets.

10. Stockholders’ Equity:

Stock Option Plans:

On May 26, 2011, stockholders approved the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (“2011 Plan”) and reserved for issuance under the 2011 Plan 19,800,000 shares, as adjusted for the two-for-one stock split effective July 1, 2011, terminating any remaining shares available for grant under the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (“2004 Plan”) as of such date. To the extent any shares, not to exceed 13,636,548 shares, as adjusted for the stock split, would be returned to the 2004 Plan or the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan (“1996 Plan”) as a result of expiration, cancellation or forfeiture, those shares instead are added to the reserve of shares available under the 2011 Plan. In addition, the Company assumed 2,708,198 shares, as adjusted for the stock split, under Voyant’s 2000 Equity Incentive Plan following the completion of the Voyant acquisition in January 2004. In May 2009, stockholders approved amendments to the 2004 Plan to, among making other clarifying amendments, (i) permit Polycom to undertake a one-time stock option exchange program, (ii) increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2004 Plan by 7,200,000 shares, as adjusted for the stock split, and (iii) implement flexible share counting under the 2004 Plan.

Under the terms of the 2004 Plan and the 2011 Plan, options may not be granted at prices lower than fair market value at the date of grant. Under the 2004 Plan and prior terminated plans, options granted expire between seven and ten years from the date of grant and are only exercisable upon vesting. The Company settles employee stock option exercises with newly issued common shares. There were no options granted under the 2011 Plan. Unvested shares outstanding under prior terminated plans generally vest at 25% after completing one year of service to the Company and the remaining amount equally over 36 months until fully vested after four years.

Stock Option Exchange Program:

On August 21, 2009, the Company completed a one-time stock option exchange program, which was approved by its stockholders in May 2009, pursuant to which eligible employees were able to exchange certain outstanding options, whether vested or unvested, for new restricted stock units. Eligible employees were able to exchange all of their eligible outstanding options with an exercise price greater than $14.47 per share, as adjusted for stock split, under certain stock plans that were granted on or before July 27, 2008. A total of 4,681,988 options, ranging in exercise price from $15.10 to $25.07 were exchanged, as adjusted for the stock split. All surrendered options were cancelled, and immediately thereafter, the Company issued a total of 890,014 restricted stock units, as adjusted for the stock split. The first 50% of restricted stock units vested on the one-year anniversary of the new restricted stock unit grant date which was August 21, 2010 and the remaining 50% of the shares vested on the second anniversary of the new restricted stock unit grant date which was August 21, 2011, subject to the employee’s continued employment with the Company through the relevant dates. The exchange was considered to be a modification to the original equity award. In addition to continuing to amortize the remaining stock compensation associated with the exchanged options, the exchange resulted in an incremental $1.4 million in stock compensation expense, which is expensed over the two-year service period of the restricted stock units.

Performance Shares and Restricted Stock Units:

The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors may also grant performance shares and restricted stock units under the 2011 Plan to officers, to non-employee directors and to certain other employees as a component of the Company’s broad-based equity compensation program. Prior to May 2011, the Compensation Committee granted performance shares and restricted stock units under the 2004 Plan. Performance shares represent a commitment by the Company to deliver shares of Polycom common stock at a future point in time,

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subject to the fulfillment by the Company of pre-defined performance criteria. Such awards will be earned only if performance targets over the performance periods established by or under the direction of the Compensation Committee are met. The number of performance shares subject to vesting is determined at the end of a given performance period. Generally, if the performance criteria are deemed achieved, performance shares will vest from one to three years from the anniversary of the grant date. Restricted stock units are time-based awards that generally vest over a period of one to three years from the date of grant.

Commencing in 2011, the Company granted performance shares which contain a market condition based on Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and which measure the Company’s relative performance against the NASDAQ Composite Index. Such performance shares will be delivered in common stock at the end of the vesting period based on the Company’s actual performance compared to the target performance criteria and may equal from zero percent (0%) to one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the target award. Prior to 2011, the Company granted performance shares which contain a market condition based on Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and which measure the Company’s relative performance against the Russell 2000 Index. Such performance shares will be delivered in common stock at the end of the vesting period based on the Company’s actual performance compared to the target performance criteria and may equal from zero percent (0%) to two hundred percent (200%) of the target award. The fair value of a performance share with a market condition is estimated on the date of award, using a Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate the total return ranking of the Company’s stock among the NASDAQ Composite Index or Russell 2000 Index companies, as applicable, over each performance period.

During 2009, the Company also granted 250,000 target performance shares to an executive, at a fair value of $11.80 per share, as adjusted for the stock split, which were subject to the fulfillment by the Company of certain pre-defined market share performance criteria and additionally, for a portion of the awards, the attainment of pre-defined revenue targets, over multiple performance periods. On June 9, 2010, the independent members of the board of directors approved amendments to these equity awards for the remaining performance periods that commence on or after July 1, 2010. For the remaining performance periods, the performance shares will be delivered in common stock at the end of the vesting period based on the Company’s actual performance compared to the target performance criteria and may equal from zero percent (0%) to two hundred (200%) of the target award. The fair value of a performance share with a market condition is estimated on the date of the award, using a Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate the total return ranking of the Company’s stock among the Russell 2000 Index companies over each performance period. As a result of these amendments, an incremental stock compensation expense totaling $3.4 million is prospectively recognized using graded vesting method over the remaining requisite service period.

During 2010, the Company granted 189,000 performance shares at a weighted average fair value of $11.37 per share, as adjusted for the stock split, which is based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of the award. The performance shares contain a performance condition based on attaining pre-defined gross margin dollar goals for calendar 2010. These performance shares, as adjusted for actual forfeitures, have been fully vested and issued during the first quarter of 2011. The Company did not issue similar performance shares for any periods during 2011.

The Company also granted restricted stock units during the year ended December 31, 2011 and 2010. The fair value of restricted stock units is based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of award. The awards generally vest over one to three years in equal annual installments on each anniversary of the date of grant and will be delivered in common stock at the end of each vesting period. Stock-based compensation expense for these restricted stock units is recognized using the graded vesting method.

During 2011 and 2010, the Company granted non-employee directors annual awards of restricted stock units. The awards vest quarterly over one year from the date of grant. The fair value of these awards is the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. Stock-based compensation expense for these awards is generally amortized over six months from the date of grant due to voluntary termination provisions contained in the underlying agreements.

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Activity under the above plans for the year ended December 31, 2011 was as follows, as adjusted for the stock split:


	Shares Available for Grant(1)			Outstanding Options							Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in thousands)
	Shares Available for Grant(1)			Number of Shares			Weighted Avg Exercise Price		Weighted Avg Contractual Term (Years)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in thousands)
Balances, December 31, 2010		13,896,284			3,632,144		$	12.39
Performance shares earned and issued above target based upon actual 2010 performance		(636,507	)		—			—
Options granted		—			—			—
Performance shares granted(2)		(1,697,578	)		—			—
Performance shares forfeited		513,638			—			—
Restricted stock units granted(2)		(3,912,780	)		—			—
Restricted stock units forfeited		1,183,555			—			—
Options exercised		—			(1,780,408	)	$	13.16
Options forfeited		124,300			(124,300	)	$	14.93
Options expired		(972	)		—			—
Assumed options under ViVu Plan		—			9,481		$	0.75
Termination of remaining shares available under the 2004 Plan		(10,422,500	)		—			—
Shares available for grant under 2011 Plan approved by stockholders		19,800,000			—			—

Balances, December 31, 2011		18,847,440			1,736,917		$	11.34

Options vested and expected to vest as of December 31, 2011(3)		—			1,726,684		$	11.34		1.78	$	8,840

(1)

Based on the amendment to the 2004 Plan, approved by the stockholders in 2009, all full value awards adjust the shares available for grant by 1.5 shares for every one share subject to such award and effective for all award activities on or after May 27, 2009. Awards granted under the option exchange program were excluded from this treatment and were accounted for on a 1-for-1 basis. Upon approval of the 2011 Plan on May 26, 2011, all full value awards adjust the shares available for grant by 1.83 shares for every one share subject to such award and effective for all award activities on or after May 26, 2011. These adjustments for full value shares are also referred to as “fungible share counting.”

(2)	Includes all grants, including those related to business acquisitions.

(3)	Options expected to vest are the result of applying the pre-vesting forfeiture rate assumption to total outstanding options.

The total pre-tax intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was $19.3 million, $31.7 million and $7.4 million, respectively.

As of December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, 1,644,733, 3,305,550, and 8,672,664 outstanding options were exercisable at a weighted average exercise price of $11.37, $12.32, and $11.18, respectively, as adjusted for the stock split.

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The options outstanding and currently exercisable by exercise price at December 31, 2011, as adjusted for the stock split, are as follows:


	Stock Options Outstanding						Stock Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Price	Number Outstanding		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Yrs)		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Number Exercisable		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Yrs)		Weighted Average Exercise Price
$0.75-$7.84		177,561		1.25	$	7.30		169,339			$	7.62
$8.02-$8.19		22,292		0.47	$	8.12		22,292			$	8.12
$8.40-$8.40		329,410		0.57	$	8.40		329,410			$	8.40
$8.41-$8.64		66,920		0.38	$	8.49		66,920			$	8.49
$9.50-$9.50		179,862		1.06	$	9.50		179,824			$	9.50
$9.63-$10.67		180,088		1.38	$	10.61		180,088			$	10.61
$10.86-$11.67		61,240		1.68	$	11.28		60,480			$	11.27
$11.80-$11.80		262,453		4.20	$	11.80		181,637			$	11.80
$13.63-$16.65		223,875		2.46	$	15.36		222,023			$	15.37
$17.10-$17.42		233,216		2.08	$	17.34		232,720			$	17.34

		1,736,917		1.80	$	11.34		1,644,733		1.63	$	11.37

The Company did not grant any stock options during the year ended December 31, 2011. The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options outstanding and stock options exercisable at December 31, 2011 was $8.9 million and $8.4 million, respectively.

As of December 31, 2011, total compensation cost related to nonvested stock options not yet recognized was $0.4 million, which is expected to be recognized over the next 19 months on a weighted-average basis.

The following information summarizes the changes in unvested performance shares and restricted stock units and non-employee director restricted stock units for 2011, as adjusted for the stock split:


	Number of Shares(1)			Weighted Avg Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested shares at December 31, 2010		6,127,534		$	12.05
Performance shares granted(2)		1,405,175			22.60
Performance shares granted related to business acquisitions		86,637			30.22
Restricted stock units granted		2,275,861			23.58
Restricted stock units granted related to business acquisitions		172,806			25.34
Performance shares vested and issued(2)		(1,132,070	)		14.80
Restricted stock units vested and issued		(2,224,820	)		11.77
Performance shares forfeited		(312,796	)		16.87
Restricted stock units forfeited		(711,356	)		16.52

Unvested shares at December 31, 2011		5,686,971		$	19.28

(1)	For purposes of this table, shares are counted on a one-for-one basis, not on a fungible share counting basis.

(2)	Includes 424,338 additional shares resulting from above target performance for 2010.

As of December 31, 2011, there was $61.2 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested shares which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.1 years. The total fair value of shares vested in 2011, 2010, and 2009 was $36.6 million, $32.5 million, and $15.7 million, respectively.

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Employee Stock Purchase Plan:

During the third quarter of 2011, the Company revised the administration of its Employee Stock Purchase Plan from a six-month offering and purchase period to a twenty four-month offering period with four 6-month purchase periods. Under the current Employee Stock Purchase Plan, the Company can grant stock purchase rights to all eligible employees during a two-year offering period with purchase dates at the end of each six-month purchase period (each January and July). Shares are purchased through employees’ payroll deductions, up to a maximum of 20% of employees’ compensation, at purchase prices equal to 85% of the lesser of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock at either the date of the employee’s entrance to the offering period or the purchase date. No participant may purchase more than $25,000 worth of common stock or 10,000 shares of common stock in any one calendar year period. The Company has reserved 22 million shares of common stock for issuance under the plan including 7 million shares approved by shareholders in May, 2011, as adjusted for the two-for-one stock split. During 2011, 2010, and 2009, 1,143,614 shares, 1,312,290 shares and 1,796,928 shares were purchased at average per share prices of $15.19, $9.65, and $6.00, respectively, as adjusted for the two-for-one stock split.

Valuation and Expense Information

The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense recorded and its allocation within the Consolidated Statements of Operations (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Cost of sales—product	$	2,815	$	2,588	$	1,886
Cost of sales—service		3,904		3,940		2,829

Stock-based compensation expense included in cost of sales		6,719		6,528		4,715

Sales and marketing		27,404		26,586		10,525
Research and development		15,394		10,266		7,650
General and administrative		15,745		12,797		7,468

Stock-based compensation expense included in operating expenses		58,543		49,649		25,643

Stock-based compensation expense related to employee equity awards and employee stock purchases		65,262		56,177		30,358
Tax benefit		5,056		9,486		7,945

Stock-based compensation expense related to employee equity awards and employee stock purchases, net of tax	$	60,206	$	46,691	$	22,413

Stock-based compensation expense is not allocated to segments because it is separately maintained at the corporate level. The Company elected not to capitalize any stock-based compensation during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 due to these amounts being immaterial.

Valuation Assumptions:

The Company did not grant any stock options during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and 2010. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, the Company granted 200,000 stock options, with a weighted-average estimated fair value of $4.15 per share, as adjusted for the stock split. The fair values of these options were estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model for the year ended December 31, 2009 using the following assumptions:


	2009
Expected volatility		42.24	%
Risk-free interest rate		1.96	%
Expected dividends		—	%
Expected life (yrs)		4.01

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The weighted-average estimated fair value of employee stock purchase rights granted pursuant to the Employee Stock Purchase Plan during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009 was $7.82 per share, $3.42 per share, and $2.58 per share, respectively, as adjusted for the stock split. The fair value of each employee stock purchase right grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model and is recognized as expense using the graded vesting attribution approach with the following weighted-average assumptions:


	2011			2010			2009
Expected volatility		39.57	%		38.23	%		51.69	%
Risk-free interest rate		0.24	%		0.19	%		0.35	%
Expected dividends		—	%		—	%		—	%
Expected life (yrs)		1.03			0.50			0.49

Starting in the third quarter of 2011, the Company computed its expected volatility assumption based on blended volatility (50% historical volatility/50% implied volatility). The selection of the blended volatility assumption was based upon the Company’s assessment that blended volatility is more representative of the Company’s future stock price trends as it weighs in the longer term historical volatility with the near term future implied volatility. Prior to the third quarter of 2011, the Company used the implied volatility for one-year traded options on the Company’s stock.

The risk-free interest rate assumption is based upon published interest rates appropriate for the expected life of the Company’s employee stock options and employee stock purchases.

The dividend yield assumption is based on the Company’s history of not paying dividends and no future expectations of dividend payouts.

The expected life of employee stock options represents the weighted-average period that the stock options are expected to remain outstanding and was determined based on historical experience of similar awards, giving consideration to the contractual terms of the stock-based awards, vesting schedules and expectations of future employee behavior as influenced by changes to the terms of its stock-based awards.

As the stock-based compensation expense recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations is based on awards ultimately expected to vest, such amounts have been reduced for estimated forfeitures. Forfeitures are estimated at the time of grant, and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. Forfeitures were estimated based on the Company’s historical experience.

Share Repurchase Program:

From time to time, the Company’s Board of Directors has approved plans under which the Company may at its discretion purchase shares of its common stock in the open market. During the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, the Company purchased 2.0 million shares and 4.8 million shares, respectively, as adjusted for the stock split, of common stock in the open market for cash of $40.0 million and $69.2 million, respectively. The purchase price for the shares of the Company’s stock repurchased is recorded as a reduction to stockholders’ equity. As of December 31, 2011, the Company was authorized to purchase up to an additional $78.0 million of shares in the open market under the current share repurchase plan.

Preferred Stock:

During 2010, the Company’s one outstanding share of preferred stock was exchanged and cancelled. As such, there was no outstanding preferred stock as of December 31, 2011 and 2010.

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, net of tax (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
Foreign currency translation	$	1,841	$	1,602
Unrealized gains on investments		39		84
Unrealized gains (losses) on hedging securities		3,730		(574	)

	$	5,610	$	1,112

The tax effects were not shown separately, as the impacts were not material.

11. Employee Benefits Plans:

401(k) Plans:

The Company has a 401(k) Plan (the Polycom 401(k) Plan), which covers the majority of employees in the United States. Each eligible employee may elect to contribute to the Polycom 401(k) Plan, through payroll deductions, the lesser of 60% of their eligible compensation or $16,500 in 2011, subject to current statutory limitations. The Company does not offer its own stock as an investment option in the Polycom 401(k) Plan. The Company, at the discretion of the Board of Directors, may make matching contributions to the Polycom 401(k) Plan. The Company matches in cash 50% of the first 6% of compensation employees contribute to the Polycom 401(k) Plan, up to a certain maximum per participating employee per year. For the 2011, 2010, and 2009 fiscal years, the maximum Company cash match was $2,000 per participating employee per year. The Polycom 401(k) Plan provides that employees who are projected to be age 50 or older by the end of each year and have elected to contribute to the Polycom 401(k) Plan may also make a catch-up contribution of up to $5,500.

The Company’s contributions to the Polycom 401(k) Plan totaled approximately $3.0 million, $2.4 million, and $2.0 million in 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

12. Income Taxes:

Income tax expense consists of the following (in thousands):


	Year ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Current
U. S. Federal	$	8,563		$	12,995		$	8,034
Foreign		6,269			3,422			4,475
State and local		3,450			3,055			3,460

Total current		18,282			19,472			15,969

Deferred
U. S. Federal		(3,928	)		(6,706	)		2,532
Foreign		(3,191	)		1,302			(332	)
State and local		243			(180	)		(492	)

Total deferred		(6,876	)		(5,584	)		1,708

Income tax expense	$	11,406		$	13,888		$	17,677

The sources of income before the provision for income taxes are as follows (in thousands):


	Year ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
United States	$	42,603	$	40,291	$	28,490
Foreign		104,617		42,006		39,066

Income before provision for income taxes	$	147,220	$	82,297	$	67,556

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The Company’s tax provision differs from the provision computed using statutory tax rates as follows (in thousands):


	Year ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Federal tax at statutory rate	$	51,527		$	28,804		$	23,645
State taxes, net of federal benefit		3,012			2,379			2,179
Non-deductible share based compensation		2,826			1,371			1,190
Foreign income at tax rates different than U.S. rates		(35,328	)		(11,736	)		(6,051	)
Changes in reserves for uncertain tax positions		(8,880	)		(5,295	)		(2,903	)
Research and development tax credit		(3,172	)		(1,876	)		(656	)
Other		1,421			241			273

Tax provision	$	11,406		$	13,888		$	17,677

The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to the deferred tax assets (liabilities) are presented below (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011			2010
Property and equipment, net, principally due to differences in depreciation	$	7,332		$	3,242
Capitalized research and development costs		650			729
Inventory		7,582			5,487
Restructuring reserves		1,025			892
Deferred revenue		9,455			7,901
Other reserves		12,793			10,808
Share-based compensation		14,892			15,052
Net operating and capital loss carryforwards		8,884			8,852
Tax credit carryforwards		12,013			7,476
Investments		736			1,468

Deferred tax asset		75,362			61,907
Acquired intangibles		(9,812	)		(9,779	)

Net deferred tax asset	$	65,550		$	52,128
Valuation allowance		(6,741	)		(3,440	)

Net deferred tax asset, net of valuation allowance	$	58,809		$	48,688

As of December 31, 2011, the Company had approximately $5.0 million in tax effected net operating losses, $3.9 million in tax effected capital loss carryforwards and $12.0 million in tax effected credit carryforwards. The capital and net operating loss carryforward assets and tax credit carryforwards begin to expire in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Included in the net deferred tax asset balance is a $6.7 million valuation allowance recorded related primarily to net operating losses and credits in jurisdictions with a history of credits in excess of taxable profits.

The Company provides for U.S. income taxes on the earnings of foreign subsidiaries unless they are considered permanently invested outside of the U.S. At December 31, 2011, the cumulative amount of earnings upon which U.S. income tax has not been provided is approximately $293.1 million. It is not practicable to determine the income tax liability that might be incurred if these earnings were to be repatriated to the U.S.

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Excess tax benefits associated with stock option exercises are credited to stockholders’ equity. The reductions of income taxes payable resulting from the exercise of employee stock options and other employee stock programs that were credited to stockholders’ equity were approximately $13.7 million, $10.4 million, and $0.1 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively.

The Company has been granted a beneficial tax status by the Israeli tax authorities for income earned in Israel. Under the terms, the Company is eligible for significant tax rate reductions following the first year in which the Company has Israeli taxable income after consideration of tax losses carried forward. The tax rates for 2011, 2010 and 2009 were 3.8%, 6.6% and 10%, respectively. The tax rate reduction is currently effective through 2014 and the Company expects to reapply for subsequent periods after expiration. The Company realized tax savings of $5.2 million in 2011 ($0.03 per diluted share), $0.3 million in 2010 and $0.9 million in 2009. The tax holiday in Israel did not have a material impact on earnings per share in 2009 or 2010. The reduced tax rates, as well as other tax benefits, are conditional upon the Company fulfilling the terms stipulated under the Israeli law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments of 1959.

In addition, beginning in 2008, the Company’s subsidiary in China was granted High-New Technology Enterprise (“HNTE”) Recognition under which the Company’s tax rate is reduced from 25% to 15%. The tax savings realized were $0.7 million in 2011, $0.4 million in 2010, and $0.6 million in 2009. Also in 2008, the Company’s subsidiary in Thailand was granted Regional Headquarters Status (“RHS”) and the tax rate was reduced from 30% to 10%. The associated tax savings was $0.5 million in 2011, $0.6 million in 2010, and $0.3 million for 2009. The beneficial tax status for both China and Thailand will remain in effect as long as the Company meets the statutory requirements for qualification. The tax holidays in China and Thailand do not have a material impact on earnings per share.

In 2011, the Company recorded reserve releases of $8.1 million, $6.9 million of which was due to the resolution of multi-year tax audits. The expiration of statutes of limitation in both the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions resulted in reserve releases of $0.8 million, and $0.4 million in reserve releases was due to changes in foreign exchange rates.

In 2010, the California Franchise Tax Board completed its audit of the 2005 and 2006 tax years. The audit resulted in a payment of $0.8 million. Certain other audit issues were also settled during the year resulting in the release of accrued taxes of $1.5 million. Additionally, $3.4 million in tax reserves related to the cost sharing of stock based compensation were released as an adjustment to stockholders’ equity and $0.7 million in tax reserves were released due to changes in foreign exchange rates during the year.

The aggregate changes in the balance of the Company’s gross unrecognized tax benefits were as follows for the periods indicated:


	December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Beginning balance	$	36,923		$	44,365		$	55,852
Additions based on tax positions taken during a prior period		1,130			291			—
Reductions based on tax positions taken during a prior period		(415	)		(4,134	)		(14	)
Additions based on tax positions taken during the current period		2,411			727			377
Reductions related to settlement of tax matters		(6,873	)		(2,266	)		—
Reductions related to a lapse of applicable statute of limitations		(768	)		(2,060	)		(11,850	)

Ending balance	$	32,408		$	36,923		$	44,365

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Included in the balance as of December 31, 2011 is $32.4 million of unrecognized tax benefits which would affect income tax expense if recognized.

The Company’s practice is to recognize interest and/or penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, the Company had approximately $2.0 million and $2.5 million of accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions.

By the end of 2012, uncertain tax positions may be reduced as a result of a lapse of the applicable statutes of limitations or the resolutions of ongoing audits in various jurisdictions. The Company anticipates that the reduction in 2012 will approximate $3.4 million and the reserve releases would be recorded as adjustments to tax expense in the period released.

The Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various states and foreign jurisdictions. The Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal and state income tax examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2007. Foreign income tax matters for most foreign jurisdictions have been concluded for years through 2005 except Hong Kong and Singapore which have been concluded for years through 2004; Germany and Switzerland which have been concluded for years through 2006; Israel which has been concluded for years through 2007; and France and the United Kingdom which have been concluded for years through 2008.

13. Business Segment Information:

Polycom is a leading global provider of a line of high-quality, easy-to-use communications equipment that enables businesses, telecommunications service providers, and governmental and educational institutions to more effectively conduct video, voice, data and web communications. Polycom’s business is organized around four major geographic theatres: North America, Central America/Latin America (“CALA”), Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific (“APAC”). For reporting purposes, the Company aggregates North America and CALA into one segment named Americas and reports EMEA and APAC as separate segments. The segments are determined in accordance with how management views and evaluates the Company’s business and allocates its resources, and based on the criteria as outlined in the authoritative guidance. Prior to the fourth quarter of 2010, the Company organized its offerings along three product categories: Video Communications Solutions, Voice Communications Solutions, and Services, which were also considered its operating segments for reporting purposes. As a result of this change in presentation, the revenue and operating results for the prior periods have been revised to conform to the current period presentation. This change in segment reporting had no impact on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, income statements, cash flows or changes in shareholders’ equity for any periods.

Segment Revenue and Profit

Segment revenues are attributed to a theater based on the ordering location of the customer. A significant portion of each segment’s expenses arise from shared services and infrastructure that Polycom has historically allocated to the segments in order to realize economies of scale and to use resources efficiently. These expenses include information technology services, facilities and other infrastructure costs.

Segment Data

The results of the reportable segments are derived directly from Polycom’s management reporting system. The results are based on Polycom’s method of internal reporting and are not reported in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Management measures the performance of each segment based on several metrics, including contribution margin as defined below.

Asset data, with the exception of gross accounts receivable, is not reviewed by management at the segment level.

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Financial information for each reportable geographical segment as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, based on the Company’s internal management system and as utilized by the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM), is as follows (in thousands) :


	Americas			EMEA			APAC			Total
2011:
Revenue*	$	756,074		$	376,579		$	363,145		$	1,495,798
% of total revenue		51	%		25	%		24	%		100	%
Contribution margin		315,297			153,842			176,420			645,559
% of segment revenue		42	%		41	%		49	%		43	%
Gross accounts receivable		102,973			82,259			72,003			257,235
% of total gross accounts receivable		40	%		32	%		28	%		100	%

2010:
Revenue*	$	656,432		$	302,118		$	259,939		$	1,218,489
% of total revenue		54	%		25	%		21	%		100	%
Contribution margin		261,625			108,296			118,744			488,665
% of segment revenue		40	%		36	%		46	%		40	%
Gross accounts receivable		83,350			60,622			44,920			188,892
% of total gross accounts receivable		44	%		32	%		24	%		100	%

2009:
Revenue*	$	536,682		$	240,226		$	190,076		$	966,984
% of total revenue		55	%		25	%		20	%		100	%
Contribution margin		216,739			90,143			88,567			395,449
% of segment revenue		40	%		38	%		47	%		41	%
Gross accounts receivable		70,173			53,731			40,606			164,510
% of total gross accounts receivable		43	%		33	%		24	%		100	%

Net revenues in the United States were $654.2 million, $568.7 million, and $460.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively. United States and China, individually, accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenue in 2011. No individual country outside the United States accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenues in 2010 or 2009.

Segment contribution margin includes all geographic segment revenues less the related cost of sales, direct sales and marketing expenses. Management allocates some infrastructure costs such as facilities and IT costs in determining segment contribution margin. Contribution margin is used, in part, to evaluate the performance of, and allocate resources to, each of the segments. Certain operating expenses are not allocated to segments because they are separately managed at the corporate level. These unallocated costs include corporate manufacturing costs, sales and marketing costs other than direct sales and marketing expenses, research and development expense, general and administrative costs, such as legal and accounting, stock-based compensation costs, acquisition-related costs, amortization of purchased intangible assets, purchased in-process research and development costs, litigation reserves and payments, restructuring costs and interest and other income (expense), net.

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The reconciliation of segment information to Polycom consolidated totals is as follows (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Segment contribution margin	$	645,559		$	488,665		$	395,449
Corporate and unallocated costs		(388,554	)		(309,450	)		(258,776	)
Stock-based compensation		(65,262	)		(56,177	)		(30,358	)
Effect of stock-based compensation cost on warranty expense		(507	)		(467	)		(400	)
Acquisition related-costs		(9,688	)		—			—
Officer severance & CEO transition related costs		(1,551	)		(4,134	)		(369	)
Amortization of purchased intangibles		(21,742	)		(18,994	)		(19,268	)
Restructuring costs		(9,396	)		(8,139	)		(15,935	)
Litigation reserves and payments		—			(1,235	)		(700	)
Losses on investments, net		(79	)		(5,324	)		—
Interest income (expense), net		822			(166	)		731
Other expense, net		(2,382	)		(2,282	)		(2,818	)

Total income before provision for income taxes	$	147,220		$	82,297		$	67,556


	Year Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Gross accounts receivables	$	257,235		$	188,892		$	164,510
Returns and related reserves		(35,946	)		(32,541	)		(28,174	)
Allowance for doubtful accounts		(1,732	)		(1,844	)		(3,523	)

Total trade receivables, net	$	219,557		$	154,507		$	132,813

The following table summarizes the Company’s revenues by groups of similar products and services as follows (in thousands):


	Year ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Net Revenues:
UC group systems	$	971,752	$	795,808	$	621,910
UC personal devices		269,283		239,065		200,794
Network infrastructure		254,763		183,616		144,280

Total	$	1,495,798	$	1,218,489	$	966,984

During 2011, 2010, and 2009, one customer from the Americas segment accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenues.

The Company’s fixed assets, net of accumulated depreciation, are located in the following geographical areas (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2011		2010
United States	$	83,783	$	72,568
EMEA		20,202		18,592
APAC		23,057		15,370
Other		3,005		3,791

Total	$	130,047	$	110,321

No one country outside of the United States has more than 10% of total net fixed assets as of December 31, 2011 and 2010.

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14. Net Income Per Share Disclosures:

A reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of basic and diluted net income per share is provided as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts), as adjusted for the stock split:


	Year ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Numerator—basic and diluted net income per share:
Net income	$	135,814	$	68,409	$	49,879

Denominator—basic net income per share:
Weighted average common stock outstanding		176,426		170,662		167,999

Total shares used in calculation of basic net income per share		176,426		170,662		167,999

Basic net income per share	$	0.77	$	0.40	$	0.30

Denominator—diluted net income per share:
Denominator—shares used in calculation of basic net income per share		176,426		170,662		167,999
Effect of dilutive securities:
Common stock options and performance shares		4,769		5,708		3,119

Total shares used in calculation of diluted net income per share		181,195		176,370		171,118

Diluted net income per share	$	0.75	$	0.39	$	0.29

In 2011, 2010, and 2009, approximately 0, 1,565,390, and 8,367,792 shares, as adjusted for the stock split, respectively, relating to potentially dilutive securities, primarily from stock options, were excluded from the denominator in the computation of diluted net income per share because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.

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POLYCOM, INC.

SUPPLEMENTARY FINANCIAL DATA

(Unaudited)

(in thousands, except per share amounts)


	2011								2010
	Fourth Quarter		Third Quarter		Second Quarter		First Quarter		Fourth Quarter		Third Quarter		Second Quarter		First Quarter
Revenue	$	407,007	$	379,017	$	365,609	$	344,165	$	339,631	$	308,069	$	294,635	$	276,154
Gross profit	$	244,027	$	226,582	$	220,993	$	205,754	$	202,945	$	182,785	$	170,901	$	159,319
Net income	$	49,573	$	23,720	$	28,543	$	33,978	$	33,126	$	17,268	$	12,604	$	5,411
Basic net income per share	$	0.28	$	0.13	$	0.16	$	0.19	$	0.19	$	0.10	$	0.07	$	0.03
Diluted net income per share	$	0.28	$	0.13	$	0.16	$	0.19	$	0.19	$	0.10	$	0.07	$	0.03

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE—SCHEDULE II

POLYCOM, INC.

VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS

(in thousands)


	Balance at Beginning of Year		Additions		Deductions			Balance at End of Year
Year ended December 31, 2011
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	1,844	$	—	$	(112	)	$	1,732
Sales returns and allowances	$	27,957	$	70,630	$	(65,464	)	$	33,123
Income tax valuation allowance	$	3,440	$	3,301	$	—		$	6,741
Year ended December 31, 2010
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	3,523	$	—	$	(1,679	)	$	1,844
Sales returns and allowances	$	26,058	$	60,288	$	(58,389	)	$	27,957
Income tax valuation allowance	$	1,381	$	2,059	$	—		$	3,440
Year ended December 31, 2009
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	3,288	$	247	$	(12	)	$	3,523
Sales returns and allowances	$	28,292	$	54,934	$	(57,168	)	$	26,058
Income tax valuation allowance	$	1,064	$	513	$	(196	)	$	1,381

S-2

INDEX TO EXHIBITS


Exhibit No.			Description

	3.1		Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Polycom, Inc. (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 2, 2011).

	3.2		Amended and Restated Bylaws of Polycom, Inc., as amended effective February 2, 2012 (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 7, 2012).

	4.1		Reference is made to Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2.

	4.2		Specimen Common Stock certificate (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-02296) filed with the Commission on March 12, 1996.

	10.1*		Form of Indemnification Agreement entered into between the Registrant and each of its directors and officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 11, 2008).

	10.2*		Polycom, Inc. 2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on June 2, 2011).

	10.4		Lease Agreement by and between the Registrant and WJT, LLC, dated February 19, 2001, regarding the space located at 4750 Willow Road, Pleasanton, California (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 12, 2001).

	10.5		Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the Registrant and WJT, LLC, dated October 5, 2001, regarding the space located at 4750 Willow Road, Pleasanton, California (which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 1, 2002).

	10.6*		Polycom, Inc. 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan and form of agreement thereunder (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on November 13, 2001).

	10.7*		Summary of Arrangement between the Registrant and its Senior Executive Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on November 3, 2003).

	10.8*		Polycom, Inc. 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (May 27, 2010 Restatement) (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 2, 2010).

	10.9*		Form of Non-employee Director Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 29, 2004).

	10.10	*	Form of Non-officer Employee Stock Option Agreement (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 29, 2004).

	10.11	*	Form of Officer Stock Option Agreement (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 29, 2004).

	10.12	*	Performance Bonus Plan, as amended (which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 29, 2008).


Exhibit No.			Description

	10.13	*	Polycom, Inc. Management Bonus Plan, as amended (which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 29, 2008).

	10.14	*	Form of Amendment to U.S. Forms of Performance Share Agreements (which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 29, 2008).

	10.15	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers—Performance Goal, as amended (which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.30 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 29, 2008).

	10.16	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 11, 2008).

	10.17	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 11, 2008).

	10.18	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 26, 2009).

	10.19	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 26, 2009).

	10.20	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 26, 2009).

	10.21	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 26, 2009).

	10.22	*	Offer Letter with Andrew Miller, dated June 5, 2009 (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 31, 2009).

	10.23	*	Amended Change of Control Severance Agreement with Andrew M. Miller, effective as of May 10, 2010, (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 30, 2010).

	10.24	*	Amended Change of Control Severance Agreement with Michael R. Kourey (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2008).

	10.25	*	Form of Amended Change of Control Severance Agreement (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2008).

	10.26	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 9, 2010).


Exhibit No.			Description

	10.27	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.51 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 19, 2010).

	10.28	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on May 4, 2010).

	10.29	*	Polycom, Inc. Executive Severance Plan and Summary Plan Description, as amended and restated effective May 10, 2010 (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 30, 2010).

	10.30	*	Form of Amended and Restated Performance Share Agreement for Andrew M. Miller (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 30, 2010).

	10.31	*	Offer Letter with Sudhakar Ramakrishna, dated August 31, 2010 (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.50 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 18, 2011).

	10.32	*	Letter dated February 14, 2011, regarding retention bonus for Sudhakar Ramakrishna (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.51 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 18, 2011).

	10.33	*	Letter dated February 15, 2011, regarding temporary living benefits for Andrew M. Miller (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.52 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 18, 2011).

	10.34	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on April 28, 2011).

	10.35	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on April 28, 2011).

	10.36	*	Polycom, Inc. 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 2, 2011).

	10.37	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).

	10.38	*	Form of Performance Share Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).

	10.39	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).

	10.40	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-Officers (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).

	10.41	*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-Employee Directors (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).


Exhibit No.		Description

	10.42*	Offer Letter with Tracey Newell, dated June 27, 2011 (which is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 31, 2011).

	10.43*	ViVu, Inc. 2008 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (which are incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-177763) filed with the Commission on November 4, 2011).

	21.1(1)	Subsidiaries of the Registrant.

	23.1(1)	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

	24.1(1)	Power of Attorney (included on pages 75 and 76 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K).

	31.1(1)	Certification of the President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(c) and 15d-14(a).

	31.2(1)	Certification of the Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(c) and 15d-14(a).

	32.1(1)	Certifications pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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	101.SCH**	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Linkbase Document

	101.CAL**	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

	101.DEF**	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

	101.LAB**	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

	101.PRE**	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

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(1)	Filed herewith.