Grandstream's GXP1700 series of Mid-Range
IP phones and HT800 series of ATAs are now interoperable with the BroadSoft Business platform.
"Yealink's
IP Phones with support for Skype for Business extend the communication experience and facilitate better collaboration.
With greater productivity and better costs, I believe the evolving
IP phone has a long and healthy future ahead, but as a purpose-built desktop appliance, not the phone of the past.
The
IP phones supported by SPS include the company's 300HD family of High Definition
IP phones, as well as other third-party
IP phones, such as Cisco, Avaya, Aastra, Polycom and other standards-based SIP phones.
Among its key features and benefits, Tone Commander's 7810 TSG-6
IP phone offers:
The test measured higher voice-quality performance from the leading soft client than the leading-brand
IP phone. In addition, the risk of performance variability from end-point peripherals, such as headsets and handsets, is generally greater with soft clients than with
IP phones.
At Wadsworth School District in Ohio, such a combination of
IP phones and analog handsets allows schools to adapt the system to their needs, says Gary Shorter, Wadsworth's director of technology.
The new devices expand Broadcom's existing
IP phone product portfolio, which includes Wi-Fi phone and Wi-Fi video phone platforms, voice-enabled cable and DSL modems, and Ethernet
IP phones, to make the Broadcom consumer VoIP offering second to none in the industry.
Instead, he calls his supervisor on the
IP phone with the touch of a hot button.
The NTT group aims to replace 30 million fixed phone lines, or about half of the total, with optical-fiber cable by fiscal 2010, which should further accelerate the increase in
IP phone users.
Indeed, the home market gets most of the buzz because of everyone's love affair with free international calls and
IP phones. But don't ignore the enterprise solutions rolling out, because the tipping point of communications is a fancy-schmancy
IP phone.
