ClearOne (News - Alert), a provider of HD Conference solutions has announced it was honored with a Product of the Year award for its CHAT 150 Group Speakerphone by TMC's Communications Solutions magazine.

 

Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions said, "ClearOne has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as deliver ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."

 

The CHAT 150 offering from ClearOne provides users in a small conference room, home office, or executive office with a group speakerphone for high quality wide-band audio communications.

 

The CHAT 150 speakerphone can connect to telephones, PCs, and video conferencing systems and includes a large loudspeaker and three microphones. It can also connect directly to enterprise IP phones.

 

To provide HD Conference capabilities, it also comes complete with Distributed Echo Cancellation, Noise Cancellation, First Microphone Priority, and Automatic Level Control technologies.

 

"We have always felt that the CHAT 150 was in a category all by itself," said Mark Child, Director of Product Marketing -- Telephony, at ClearOne. "This award from Communications Solutions confirms what we have known for a long time. As business professionals continue to search for ways to improve the quality of communication while reducing expenses, we know the value of our CHAT products will become more and more evident."

 

ClearOne has also announced the release of new Converge PA 2250 and Converge PA 4160 professional audio amplifiers. The new offerings, scheduled to begin shipping in August of 2008, satisfy the demand for high definition, multi-channel audio for conferencing, rich media presentations, and sound reinforcement applications.

 

For more, check out the HD Conference channel on TMCnet.