Polycom - Voicestation 500

Polycom Info

Polycom

Polycom was founded in 1990 and is already an industry leader and successful end-to-end provider of Unified Collaborative Communications-converged voice, video, web, and data solutions for emerging broadband networks.

Polycoms now have a commanding market share of 42% for video and 75% for voice according equipment, their outstanding quality communications products are easy to deploy, manage, and use and deliver an experience as natural as being face to face with each user. All of which translates into increased collaboration and productivity, greater flexibility, faster decisions, lower costs, and improved customer relationships.

Initially Polycom was a research and development business. In September 1992 they began shipping their first voice communications product, the SoundStation. They soon completed many acquisitions of ViaVideo, a young telecoms company that designed and developed high quality, low cost, video conferencing systems. As time went on Polycom started to manufacture and distribute the ViewStation range of video conferencing products that would ensure their success over the next 5 years.

Conferencing Info

Conferencing Units


Conferencing Units have been design so that users can hold audio or visual conversations with multiple users anywhere around the world, all this achieved over a standard telephone line. As there is no other hidden costs, once you have set up your Conferencing unit can start to use it immediately. Conferencing Units can communicate with other Units or normal telephones.



Setting up Conferencing units are easy and the vast range models available today (from the likes of Polycom and ClearOne) allow you to expand the base configuration with additional microphones and add ons, making Conference calling easy and affective.



The more expensive Conferencing unit models have a longer microphone range, with more sensitive microphones inside making it able to pick up voices from further away which can make a bit difference when choosing the right Conferencing Unit for your office.

Audio Info

Audio Conferencing Units


Audio Conferencing Units were created to bring multiple users together all through one phone line with only one unit each end, these units can be either conferencing or just simple telephones and can communicate globally just as simple as picking up a telephone. All you need is an existing phone line and away you go, there are no extra costs involved, just plug in and talk away



The better the microphone, the better the range of the conferencing unit. Popular brands such as Avaya, Cisco, Nortel Meridian and Siemens provide excellent conferencing equipment that will be a great addition to your office. The better the quality the less misunderstandings will a cur; this will increase productivity and reduce embarrassing mistakes.



Audio Conferencing Units are a secure, safe and reliable way to communicate with anybody anywhere. Conferencing is way is also better form the environment as people can communicate with people without meeting face to face, better for carbon emissions and better for fuel consumption. All this contributes to a better global environment.