Phoenix Audio Technologies has announced that it has partnered with business phone system provider FluentStream to support Phoenix’s desktop IP phones.
“We are excited to be partnering with such an innovative company, such as FluentStream,” Phoenix Audio (News - Alert) vice president of sales Jonathan Boaz said. “Phoenix Audio prides itself on designing easy-to-install, easy-to-use, high quality audio products, which will perfectly complement FluentStream’s solution. We look forward to providing the company’s growing client base with highly functional endpoints that fit their evolving needs.”
Phoenix’s product range being supported under the partnership includes the Spider MT605 conference IP phone. The phone, designed for conferences, has a number of features to improve audio call quality, including noise suppression, echo cancelling, de-reverb and the ability to track who is speaking.
The Spider even has a series of LED lights that light up when a person is speaking in a conference. This might seem frivolous for a business phone, but it’s a handy feature to make sure that a person can be heard on the other end, similar to the VU meters that audio engineers have used for many years.
The phone is based on SIP, which is a widely-accepted industry standard for VoIP communication.
The hardware device is being paired with FluentStream’s FluentCloud WebPhone, one of the many hosted VoIP phone service plans on the market. It uses the OPUS audio codec that, like the Spider, attempts to maintain a high level of audio quality under a range of bandwidth conditions.
While FluentCloud already works with Google (News - Alert) Chrome, using desktop IP phones such as those from Phoenix adds more flexibility and reliability.
“Our innovative features cannot be optimally utilized without the proper hardware to support them,” FluentStream founder and CTO Joshua Elson said. “I think our customers will be happy to know we provide not only a fully-hosted business phone solution, but Phoenix Audio Technologies’ (News - Alert) quality hardware that is both highly-configurable and easy-to-use.”
Edited by Rory J. Thompson