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Thu, April 2, 2009
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Plantronics, Inc.: Plantronics Teams With IBM to Enhance Business Communication With Sametime Unified Telephony
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwire - April 1, 2009) - VoiceCon 2009 -- Plantronics, Inc. (
As adoption of UC solutions for improving business collaboration increases, Plantronics and IBM are working together to optimize the user experience for Sametime Unified Telephony and Sametime-based telephony and web conferencing. Customers using Sametime Unified Telephony with Plantronics UC products, including the recently announced Savi™ Series, are assured of plug-and-play simplicity, superior audio quality and, with Savi Series, enhanced agility for managing calls routed by Sametime Unified Telephony across multiple devices.
"Plantronics and IBM realize that successful UC deployments require addressing the needs of both the IT department and the business end-user," said Gunjan Bhow, vice president and general manager of unified communications, Plantronics, Inc. "Our proven track record for reliability and world class customer support will ease concerns for IT decision makers and our focus on sound quality, ease-of-use and comfort benefit the business end-user."
"Plantronics' strong legacy of consistently delivering quality audio solutions makes them a great partner," said Akiba Saeedi, director of unified communications and collaboration at IBM. "We're pleased that Plantronics is leveraging its decades of enterprise telephony experience to seamlessly integrate their devices within Sametime Unified Telephony. Together, we're helping companies improve business collaboration and real-time communications across their distributed workforces."
A Broad Unified Communications Portfolio
Plantronics delivers a unified user experience across multiple telephony devices including the deskphone, the PC, and the mobile phone. Announced in March 2009, the Savi Series of headset systems enables users to bridge multiple devices. The Savi Office headset system can complement Sametime Unified Telephony by enabling users to switch between and mix calls routed to either their desk phone or their PC. The Savi Go headset system enables Sametime Unified Telephony users to switch between calls routed to the mobile phone and their PC.
The complete lineup of Plantronics Unified Communications products, including multi-device headsets and speakerphones, are being validated to work with Sametime Unified Telephony. Plantronics is currently developing a wireless plug-in for Sametime Unified Telephony, which is compatible with Sametime 8.0 applications, to enhance the user experience. The enhanced capabilities for wireless headset users include: call answer and terminate, remote ring detection and volume and mute control.
Plantronics -- The Voice of Unified Communications
Plantronics offers the industry's most complete families of corded and wireless products for Unified Communications. Widely recognized for their sound quality, reliability and comfort, Plantronics' audio solutions help companies extend the benefits of IP communications throughout the extended enterprise, fostering better business communication and efficiency regardless of where professionals are working.
For more information about Plantronics' UC-ready products, visit: [ http://www.plantronics.com/uc ]
For more information about Plantronics' new Savi Series, visit: [ http://www.plantronics.com/saviseries ]
Sametime Unified Telephony is expected to be available from IBM in July 2009.
About Plantronics
In 1969, a Plantronics headset carried the historic first words from the moon: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Since then, Plantronics has become the headset of choice for mission-critical applications such as air traffic control, 911 dispatch and the New York Stock Exchange. Today, this history of innovation is the basis for every audio product we build for the office, contact center, personal mobile, entertainment and residential markets. The Plantronics family of brands includes Plantronics, Altec Lansing and Clarity. For more information, go to [ www.plantronics.com ] or call (800) 544-4660.
Altec Lansing, Clarity, Plantronics, Savi, and Sound Innovation are trademarks or registered trademarks of Plantronics, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of the respective owners. IBM, Lotus, Sametime and Sametime Unified Telephony are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries or both.
