The MAX IP offers a unique ability, unmatched by competitive products, that allows customers to daisy-chain multiple phones together, up to a total of four. This provides multiple speakers, multiple microphones, and multiple dial pads distributed throughout the room for unrivaled coverage.
In addition, this VoIP conference phone offers the advanced audio signal processing technologies that were originally developed for ClearOne's market-leading professional audio conferencing products. These technologies deliver crystal-clear audio to participants on both ends of the call, and include:
· Full-duplex audio
· Distributed echo cancellation™
· Noise cancellation
· First microphone priority
· Automatic gain and level controls
This new VoIP product also offers a suite of SIP features, including:
· 3-way calling - allows for ad-hoc conferences without need for a conference bridge
· VLAN tagging - allows users to manage bandwidth usage on the network
· TLS & SRTP encryption-ready (with future release of firmware upgrade) - secures voice communications over the network
· Field upgradeability - allows users to easily download firmware upgrades from ClearOne website and load directly into the conference phone
Suggested Usage
MAX IP (comes with one VoIP conference phone):
· Small conference rooms — up to 8 people
· Executive offices
· Can also expand up to four linked phones
IP (Internet Protocol)
A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission. Unlike traditional telephone lines which create a straight path from caller to recipient; IP uses the best available path at any given moment to move data packets between point A & point B. The beauty of IP is that the sending end and receiving end communicate success in sending and receiving to insure all data packets are delivered. A really great concept of IP is that of self healing. If a route is broken and the data packets cannot be delivered an alternate route is automatically selected.
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
Internationally recognized IP telephony signaling protocol used for VoIP. This is the most widely used protocol in the market and is a standard meaning anybody who builds a SIP 2.0 compliant product should work with any other SIP 2.0 compliant device. For instance our Talkswitch is compliant so any off the shelf SIP phone will work as an endpoint for a home phone or a remote worker. The trick with SIP 2.0 is that the combined devices will work to the feature set of the lowest common denominator meaning a SIP 2.0 telephone only support 80% of the SIP feature set then even though the telephone system supports a higher set of features, you will only have the base features of the phone.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
This is simply the carrying of voice via IP meaning a standard voice stream is broken into packets at the transmit end, sent over a standard data network (such as the Internet) and reassembled into a voice stream at the receiving end. VoIP traffic is trickier than normal data traffic because the timing of packets on the receiving end is critical. For more detail see Basics of the Internet.
