{"id":50253,"date":"2012-07-10T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=50253"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:40:22","slug":"day-2-at-the-2012-microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/day-2-at-the-2012-microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors Note<\/strong>: VoIP Supply Product Manager, Tom Costelloe, is blogging from Toronto at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. \u00a0Click here for his Day 1 recap.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Day two at Microsoft WPC has been put to bed and it felt much busier from where I was standing in the Sangoma booth and walking the floor.<\/p>\n

Maybe for the first day people walked the floor to take everything in and today, folks were about meetings and greetings with exhibitors and manufacturers.<\/p>\n

The one takeaway I have from the people I have met is that, this really is an international event. \u00a0 Over the last two days, I have meet people from several countries for the first time.<\/p>\n

After diving into Lync headsets<\/a> on day one, I thought that I would take a look at some of the Lync phones<\/a> that were here on display.<\/p>\n

Polycom (Booth #719)<\/h3>\n

\"Polycom_2012<\/p>\n

On display from Polycom were the Polycom VVX 500<\/a> and 1500 phones as well as some of the CX phones. Polycom offers a variety of phones for both USB connectivity and traditional Ethernet.<\/p>\n

The one piece of information I learned from Polycom is that the camera for the VVX 500 will be released before the end of the year (Video: Skip to 1:20 mark for camera demo<\/a>) and that to expect a lot more to come from them in the Lync endpoint market.<\/p>\n

The booth also featured their Lync optimized Video conferencing options but more on that to come tomorrow.<\/p>\n

snom (Booth #457)<\/h3>\n

\"snom_2012<\/p>\n

snom has their complete suite of <\/span>snom phones<\/a> as well as their Lync and Lync qualified phones.<\/span><\/p>\n

The snom 300, snom 370<\/a>, and snom 821<\/a> all can work with Lync installations and SIP based installations. This gives\u00a0them flexibilty across a variety of installations.<\/p>\n

Aastra (Booth #436)<\/h3>\n

\"Aastra(2)_2012<\/p>\n

Over at the Aastra booth, featured devices include SIP phones and video solutions.<\/p>\n

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Pictured here is the Aastra 6725ip IP phone<\/a> that’s optimized for Microsoft Lync giving users full integration with Outlook, for example, plus PC desktop control of the phone’s standard features.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Aastra SIP DECT handsets<\/a> are featured to highlight their wireless mobility options.<\/p>\n

\"Aastra<\/p>\n

HP (Booth #1319)<\/h3>\n

\"HP_2012<\/a>The bulk of the HP booth is their laptop and computers but HP does carry two lync phones HP 4110 and HP 4120.<\/p>\n

The HP 4120 desktop phone<\/a> has a 3.5″ color LCD display and two line appearance while the HP 4110 common area phone has the same display and one line appearance.<\/p>\n

Both models have been optimized for use with Lync.<\/p>\n

Altigen’s Interesting Placement (Booth #336)<\/h3>\n

\"AltiGen_2012 The one phone on the EXPO floor that seems a little out of place is the Altigen iFusion.<\/p>\n

The iFusion is a Bluetooth docking station for the iPhone that gives your iPhone the feel of a traditional desktop phone.<\/p>\n

A great product but a little out of place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.<\/p>\n

Next Up for Day 3<\/h3>\n

Tomorrow we’ll review the video conferencing options with Lync.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: VoIP Supply Product Manager, Tom Costelloe, is blogging from Toronto at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. \u00a0Click here for his Day 1 recap. Day two at Microsoft WPC has been put to bed and it felt much busier from where I was standing in the Sangoma booth and walking the floor. Maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-looks","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189383,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions\/189383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}