文档介绍：Do desk phones matter in the UC everything
When es to munications, does the endpoint really matter?
As servers and software handle more and more of the intelligence in munications and workers get used to shifting fluidly among different modes munication, the choice of which endpoints to purchase -- the desk phones, the wireless headsets, the cellular devices -- may be ing more tactical and less strategic every day.
It might even mean that the venerable enterprise deskphone, typically priced at more than $300, could e more affordable or even pletely as softphones e a more natural and more integrated part of daily business.
"Even though desk phones are still in use, and we're obviously seeing them sold, we're going to see a decline in desk phones actually shipped, and the functionality put there," said Vanessa Alvarez, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan's munications (UC) practice. "The hardware is moditized."
moditization could arrive sooner than many people expect: Alvarez said she thinks the desk phone market will start to decline in the next 18 to 24 months, an incredibly short span of time for a line of devices that typically sit on desks for many years.
It also makes the current wave of ultra-high-end desk phones a bit puzzling.
Snom technology, for example, recently introduced the snom 870, which features a full-color touch-screen that can make setting up confere