Here’s Why Polycom Acquired Spectralink
Posted: February 8th, 2007 | Author: Garrett Smith | Filed under: VoIP News | 2 Comments »Polycom Has Acquired Spectralink
Polycom, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, and SpectraLink Corp. , the leader in workplace wireless telephony, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Polycom will acquire SpectraLink.
Wireless IP Phones Are Hot
And the market for them will be getting even hotter in 2007. Polycom, unlike rivals Cisco and Linksys, does not yet have a wireless IP Phone offering. The acquisition of Spectralink instantly gets them into the wireless IP Phone market, without the need to develop the technology in house.
Expect a new shell (the current Spectralink product design is ugly) and some savvy marketing to be put together on the current Spectralink product line before re-launching under the Polycom name.
I never understood why do I have to pay ultra-high prices for Wireless IP phones (cordless, right?) when I can connect a cordless phone to an ATA!
Unless, of course, the wireless phone is also a cell phone.
Also, I never understood why most office phones corded; and not cordless.
I agree. Prior to the market rush on cordless phones I used an analog Uniden DECT cordless phone and a Sipura SPA-3000. Work awesome (plus PSTN connectivity!) and was about half the price of what most cordless (and or wireless) phone solutions are going for.