subject: Accumulating information through Conferencing [print this page] Accumulating information through Conferencing
Today's businesses strive on communication. With business outsourcing being the most common mode of operation, effective means to communicate becomes vital. A conference phone is the office equipment that solves this purpose quite easily. Further, it cuts costs, promotes optimum utilization and makes communication effective. It may come with a video conferencing facility or plain voice conferencing depending on the type of need and usage. Needless to say video capabilities cuts enormous costs by reducing the need for face to face meetings. In this era of team work, all the employees need to discuss as a unit and share ideas at the same time. Nothing can do this easier that a conference phone that is exclusively designed to meet this purpose.
Audio conference phones come with speakers and speakerphone features. In addition they include push-to-talk microphones as well. Al these without the clumsiness of all those wires running around can be achieved with the use of Wi-Fi services. Through such wireless services, access can be extended to a variety of users within 100-300 feet distance from the wireless access point.
The size of the office room and various other parameters determine the kind of conference phone to be used. And for starters, a phone with hands-free audio- conferencing with two-line capabilities will be ideal. Looking at the models available in the market the following are noteworthy. Polycom Soundpoint Pro 2-Line Desk Phone costs around $250 and is ideal for small businesses. One of the top sellers in the market is the ClearOne models. With noise and echo cancellation and plug and play capabilities, these models are very attractive and reliable.
