Audio Conferencing Equipment Features, Considerations and Benefits

Audio conferencing equipment helps organizations to conduct and participate in a teleconference and improve their business communications with the national and international business associates, clients, as well as, employees appointed in different geographical locations.

Audio conferencing is gaining a fast popularity and more and more number of businesses are investing in the audio conferencing equipment because, audio conferences offer convenient communications, at affordable prices. The teleconferencing equipments, as well as, the services were very expensive when they were first launched in the market. But now with the rising demands and popularity of these services and equipments, these are available at reasonable prices. Therefore, these can be easily afforded by the medium and small sized organizations as well.

There are different models of wired and wireless conference phones available in the market. Each of these models has its specific functions, features and specialties. Also, different models have the capability of accommodating different number of participants. However, most of the teleconference equipments can accommodate minimum of three and maximum of thirty participants.

Besides the regular attachments, many wired/wireless conference phones are equipped with extra microphones for enhancing the sound quality and clarity of the conference and expansion kits so that the conference phone units can be connected to one another. By connecting a number of audio conferencing units together, an audio conference can be conducted successfully in even the largest conference room, with the maximum number of participants.

Conference phones can be used successfully with analog, as well as, digital systems. The wireless phones and the units with remote control further enhance the audio conferencing experience with their added flexibility. There are Polycom VoIP phonesavailable in the market, which are specially designed and manufactured for conducting VoIP audio conferences.

Most of the audio conferencing equipment available in the market are equipped with clips so that the cords and cables attached to the unit during an audio conference, run under the unit and remain flat. These equipments also have high quality speakers, an integral keypad, a digital display and noise canceling microphones.

Many organizations prefer investing in wireless conference phones, as these provide increased mobility and freedom from the web of wires. Even these units are equipped with high quality speakers and microphones.

As we need to make certain considerations while buying video conferencing cameras and other conferencing equipments, similarly we need to consider certain things while buying teleconferencing equipment. The size of the conferencing room, the number of extensions required and the quality of the unit are some of the most important considerations to make while purchasing audio