The next time you examine your company's travel expenses, you might want to fasten your seat belt. There is, however, an immediate way to ground the soaring costs of travel: Combine voice, video, and telepresence. The result: Polycom Unified Communications (UC) solutions.

Gartner predicts that by 2012, telepresence will replace more than 2 million airline seats. Thanks to Polycom, companies save millions by working more productively from office chairs and mobile devices rather than cramped, overpriced airline seats.

Polycom UC solutions deliver other returns on investment. Including less bandwidth utilization and lower operating expenses due to simplified management. So not only are communications made smoother, there is also less turbulence on the bottom line.

See how one business dramatically cuts business travel costs.

CFO: "Now instead of packing luggage, we pack into a conference room."