Polycom

Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations. The company is a leading independent supplier of standards-based IP phones. Their phones are fully interoperable with leading IP PBX and Softswitch platforms, such as the Asterisk-based Dalcon Communications Manager software. Hence Polycom customers can have a variety of end-to-end, tightly integrated VoIP solutions to choose from. VoIP solutions that feature Polycom phones provide a high-quality, rich communications experience, deliver productivity enhancing new applications, and offer significant cost savings through consolidation of network costs for voice and data, and elimination of costs of phone moves, adds, and changes.

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Outstanding Sound Quality

Polycom VoIP phones deliver unrivaled sound quality and full-duplex speakerphone performance. Polycom’s revolutionary HD Voice technology is taking the quality of voice communications to the next level. Polycom VoIP phones also incorporate features to ensure superb voice quality on the network. They include Quality of Service (QoS) support, dynamic jitter buffer, and sophisticated packet loss concealment algorithms. Polycom VoIP phones enhance the productivity of your calls because you spend less time trying to hear what other people are saying, and more time communicating with them.

Ease of Use

Polycom VoIP endpoints offer an easy transition from legacy PBX and Key Systems to the world of IP communications. Polycom phones boast an intuitive user interface, encompassing a high-quality, easy-to-read LCD, intuitive menu navigation, and a combination of familiar dedicated feature keys and context-sensitive soft keys for one button access to essential telephony features. All Polycom desktop IP phones have a dedicated headset port, so that users can have the flexibility to use the phones with a handset, hands-free speakerphone, or an optional headset.

Efficient Installation, Provisioning, and Upgrades

Polycom VoIP phones are designed to make installation, configuration, and upgrades as simple and efficient as possible. The phones can be centrally configured and upgraded in the field from the Dalcon DCM server. Polycom desktop VoIP phones boast dual-port Ethernet switches for LAN and PC connection, so you can leverage existing CAT 5 wiring and avoid additional cabling expenses. Furthermore, all Polycom VoIP phones provide a choice of powering options and support both an external AC adapter and Power over Ethernet (PoE).

Investment Protection

Polycom products are the future-proof choice for business-class IP communications. Their standards based phones can be upgraded to new software and firmware in the field to consistently meet a company’s evolving needs, whether they must switch to a new call server solution, or just prefer to keep their organization on the cutting edge of developments in VoIP.

We typically recommend Polycom Soundpoint model 330 SIP phones as the standard desk phone. These high-quality, 2-line, speakerphones plug into a standard, CAT-5 network jacks and have a switch built into them so the phone and a PC can share a single jack/run, if desired. All our phones can operate either via POE (power over Ethernet) or with their own AC power adapter at the phone. Using these IP phones means anyone can easily unplug the phone and move it to any location on the data network, and it will power on, with the known extension and feature set that it was originally programmed for. Adding a new phone is a simple matter of logging into a browser admin window and providing the basic information on the user the phone is assigned to, then plugging in the phone anywhere there is an Ethernet connection.