For small voice networks with only a few dozen phones that exist on a single site, design considerations for digital signal processors (DSPs) will probably not keep you up at night. In fact, you may never have to think about them at all! But for larger multi-site networks, the placement of your DSP resources is important, since when not placed appropriately they could interfere with conferencing performance. In this article, we outline what you need to know to design your network so DSPs work the most efficiently for you.
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How to set up DSPs for optimal conferencing performance
Topics: Business Telephone System, Conferencing, Network Design
Get the most out of your virtual meetings with Yealink Meetings
The coronavirus pandemic has caused demand for videoconferencing services to surge. ZoomInfo reports the adoption rates for web conferencing leaped a whopping 87% between January and April of this year.
In this article, we review Yealink Meetings, a distributed cloud-based service platform tailored for multi-way videoconferencing collaboration. This is a versatile system that combines multiple cloud-based and terminal-based options and delivers them using the latest technological advancements in the industry.
Topics: Yealink, Trends, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Productivity, Product Review, Unified Communications
Grandstream’s ultramodern GXV3300 smart IP video phones
Product Review
As worldwide travel faces new challenges, businesses have had to depend less on physical presence to get their job done. Grandstream’s video telephony solutions are a great solution for the modern workplace.
Grandstream has introduced its ultramodern GXV33xx series of advanced IP video phones. The term “IP Video Phones” doesn’t do them justice, however, because they deliver much more than video telephony – they are robust productivity centers. They combine large touch screens and the intelligence of the Android operating system to maximize the user experience. In this article, we review the GXV3380, GXV3370 and GXV3350 models.
Topics: SIP Phones, Grandstream, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Android, Productivity, Product Review, Unified Communications
Yealink’s new CTP20 Collaboration Touch Panel
Product Review
The remote collaboration space continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Advanced technologies are being applied to mimic the in-person experience as much as possible. Yealink has taken remote collaboration another step forward with its CTP20 Collaboration Touch Panel, which adds annotation and whiteboard capabilities to its videoconferencing systems. When used with the WPP20 Wireless Presentation Pod, you can even annotate and reverse-control shared content!
Topics: Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Product Review
Six steps to enabling a work-from-home environment
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting businesses around the world. Organizations are being forced to maneuver in a new world of security and privacy issues related to a remote workforce involving hardware and software needs, as well as employee access policies. While working from home may be a new and foreign concept to some companies, the cloud-based tools they use everyday have made it infinitely easier to continue operations and serving their customers with the same level of quality of service, support and communications that their brick and mortar operations have sought to provide.
So, as resellers and service providers of VoIP and uCast services, one of the most critical components in enabling a successful work-from-home experience for your customers (and their customers) is to keep the phone services operating as normally as possible. In this article, we suggest six steps to enabling an effective work-from-home (WFH) environment.
Topics: Firmware Upgrades, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Business Continuity, Conferencing, Productivity, Cloud, Business Strategy, Unified Communications, Konftel
Break free from cords with the Snom C620 conference phone
Dealing with pesky cords is a common frustration of conference phones. If you want to place the phone in the middle of a conference room, you either need an electrical outlet located in the middle of the floor, or you need to bring in an extension cord. And then you need to be careful not to trip over it!
That’s why we love the Snom C620 conference phone. It uses DECT 6.0 technology for a completely wireless conferencing experience. Even the detachable microphones are cordless, allowing for more effective collaboration without the frustration factor. In this article, we take a look at this robust and flexible conferencing device.
Topics: Wireless, SIP, Cordless, DECT, Conferencing, Product Review, Snom
With advanced audio features, the Snom C520 conference phone is one of the most versatile conference phones on the market. Its expandability enables high-quality conferencing for close to 100 participants! In this article, we take a look at this remarkable conference phone.
Topics: Cordless, DECT, Conferencing, Product Review, Unified Communications, Snom
Yealink, the leading global SIP phone manufacturer by market share, ranked number one in customer satisfaction among 17 VoIP telephony manufacturers rated in a survey of IT managers published by Eastern Management Group. In this article, we look at some of Yealink’s most noteworthy innovations that helped it secure the number-one spot.
Topics: Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Unified Communications
Sneak a peek at what Yealink is presenting at Latin America’s biggest technology event
Futurecom is Latin America’s most important technology event, bringing together more than 29,000 professionals with the purpose of increasing the engagement between telcos, corporations and stakeholders in the communications technologies space.
Yealink is there this week at booth H97 to preview its soon-to-launch T4U Series IP phones, as well as to showcase its newest IP phones and videoconferencing solutions with superior collaboration capabilities.
If you can’t get to Sao Paolo this week, not to worry – here we gather our reviews of the solutions they are showcasing, all in one place! Check out these comprehensive UC solutions for businesses of all sizes that Yealink is showing at Futurecom, below. To see the full product review or more details for a particular device, simply click on its link.
Topics: SIP Phones, SIP, Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Productivity, Events, Unified Communications
What we love about the Konftel 800 SIP conference phone
Don’t just be good at what you do; look good doing it! That’s the philosophy that inspired Konftel when it designed its new 800 SIP conference phone. Chock full of innovative features, this new phone is well designed, exceptionally functional, and looks great – and it has the awards to prove it! In this article we review what we love about this robust conference phone.
Topics: Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Product Review, Bluetooth, Unified Communications, Konftel
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