Wherever there's a phone line, from individual offices to the largest meeting rooms, a full conference phone makes meeting over the phone effortless. Whether your caller is across town or across the country, you'll sound like you're talking face to face with Conferencing Equipment. These conference room phones are for small, medium and large businesses. You can either buy the standard type or wireless type. Find, Shop and Buy PolyCom Conferencing Equipment at Used Phones Online, we are your number one source for conferencing equipment, audio conferencing systems, PolyCom conference phones and teleconferencing telephone systems.
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What is the purpose of a conference phone?
It enables easy conversation between more than two people through a single phone unit. The problems that arise from using just one phone can be exemplified by picturing the scene of a party of people huddling round a receiver to sing happy birthday to the person on the other end. When put into arena of the modern office, it is obvious why this scene would be unacceptable for holding a conference and why conference phones are an obvious development of the telephone.
How do Conference Phones Work?
Standard conference phones are made up of microphones and speakers that can broadcast voices and other noise in the same way that a speakerphone does. Conference Phones are designed in such a way so that a group of people can easily speak and listen to callers without the need of having to be in close proximity of the telephone unit as a person would if using a speakerphone or phone handset.
Conference phones usually consist of a portable unit that contains the speakers and microphones and connects to a standard phone line. This unit is placed in the middle of the conference room to enable consistent sound clarity from any point in the room. Additional microphones can be added to most conference telephones to improve the clarity of all voices in the room.
What is a Conference Phone Sound Quality?
Conference phone allows both parties to speak and listen to each other simultaneously through the use of digital signal processors. This way feedback is prevented while also avoiding the need to cut out the voice of the remote recipient in the way that standard speakerphones tend to. This method of allowing users to speak simultaneously is known as working in “full duplex” mode.
How to choose Conference Phones?
3 Factors - Makes choosing conference phones easy.
Compatibility
Ensure that your conference telephone equipment integrates with your existing telephone system set-up. If your company’s telephone system is based around digital technology and your chosen conference telephones are analogue, you must employ an adapter to connect the systems together.
Sound Quality
Full-Duplex mode is essential for an effective conference system. Most conference telephones are full-duplex but do check and also check the quality of the full-duplex mode as this can vary as well. A good way to check the effectiveness of the sound quality is to have two people read the same passage of text over a conference telephone connection. If the conference telephones are good, you should be able to clearly hear both participants without experiencing any cut off of either speaker.
Office Setting
Check your conference phones in the environment where they will be used. This will ensure that you know that the speaker volume and clarity is acceptable and that the microphone can receive the voices of all participants. If the conference telephones are to be used in a number of rooms of different sizes, it will be worth looking at models that have expansion capabilities.