by Garrett Smith
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Everyone loves a winner. And fall in love I have with the new Polycom SoundStation IP 5000.
Announced earlier this month, the Polycom SoundStation IP 5000 is the latest in a long line of high quality conference phones from Polycom. At a street price of just $399.99, you might be thinking that the Polycom might have skimped out on the IP 5000.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Designed for the small business and larger organizations with smaller conference rooms the IP 5000 is not small on features (or functionality) like one might expect. The SIP based SoundStation IP 5000 features Polycom’s Acoustic Clarity technology, support for HD Voice and of course sports the iconic Polycom starfish design.
With easy set-up, an intuitive user interface, bright LCD screen, full soft button key pad and all the functionality one would need, the Polycom IP 5000 is packed with everything you’d expect from a conference phone at twice the price. You can even power the IP 5000 via AC or Ethernet.
Add all of this up and one will find that today there is no better choice than the Polycom IP 5000 when it comes to a small business conference phone and for larger companies with smaller conference rooms or private offices.
Best of all the SoundStation IP 5000 is currently shipping. You can learn more about Polycom IP 5000 here.
by Garrett Smith
I can still remember the first conversation I ever had with a manufacturer about “appliances.”
I’m not talking about my Maytag. I’m talking about the product that today is about as pervasive in the open source telephony space as voice itself.
The year was 2004 and I was fresh off a brow-beating from a relative who proudly proclaimed that the Dell tower (Asterisk loaded) I offered up as their new phone system, “was not a phone system” but a PC.
Well that was then. Today appliances are the way most in the open source game are delivering their systems.
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by Garrett Smith
Move over snom 870. The Aastra 6739i is here.
Earlier today at the BroadSoft Connections executive conference Aastra formally announced the 6739i, a SIP based color touch screen. The latest desktop VoIP phone to hit the market touting a color touch screen.
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by Garrett Smith
There’s nothing sexy about PSTN connectivity cards. But that’s not stopping the folks at Sangoma from making them a little more attractive for do-it-yourself and professional open source PBX systems builders.
Announced last week at Astricon, Sangoma’s new B601 series cards are based off the Sangoma B600 series. The B601 series cards feature one T1/E1/J1 digital port, along with four analog FXO ports and one analog FXS port.
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by Garrett Smith
When I first started selling and marketing VoIP equipment one question I fielded quite often was, “How can you get Fax over IP to be reliable?”
The answer was always the same, “Well, you can’t really. Some times it works. And most of the time it seems it doesn’t.”
That was over six years ago.
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by Garrett Smith
I’ve written a few times about the growing popularity of DECT based endpoints.
Thanks to the combination of familiar form, features and performance many consumers, home office and small office professionals are selecting SIP based DECT phones for use with their BYOD VoIP service. It’s a trend that continues to growth month over month.
Yet there aren’t many non-BYOD VoIP providers who’ve capitalized on this opportunity.
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