Unified Communications

Avaya sees its new Master Agent channel as the primary route to market for new Online Store

December 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Avaya believes its solution provider channel will also have some interest in the store, which offers Avaya’s UC and CC as-a-service options. They also confirmed that this online store is not a direct play.

Jabra brings first wireless earbuds to commercial headset market with Evolve 65t

December 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Jabra resellers get access to a wireless earbud headset that has appeal to consumer product users, but at a much higher quality that is certified for Skype for Business, and which can spare them a long series of support issues compared to the kind of products in this form factor that have been available until now.

Sri Srinivasan, vice president and general manager of Webex Teams, Meetings and devices, showing off Webex Share

Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco’s collaboration team kicks off a busy Partner Summit with new collaboration dongle for any screen, a smaller room-based telepresence package, and the integration of cloud calling into Webex Teams.

Jabra extends new Engage franchise to corded phones with Engage 50

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Jabra’s first corded model in their next-gen Engage franchise is aimed at the more price-sensitive part of the market, but still contains some interesting technology innovations.

Zoom adds PBX capability to video platform to broaden collaboration capability

October 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Zoom sees the expansion of the platform’s capabilities as broadening collaboration conversations for Zoom channel partners, who are a still small, but growing part of their go-to-market strategy.

Plantronics broadens headset use cases with three new series

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The newly announced ones are the Voyager 4200 UC, aimed at the ‘corridor warrior,’ and the Savi 8200, which extends the range of the Plantronics line that supports deskphones, mobile phones and PCs. They also recently announced the Elara 60 series, which is a mobile phone station.