Polycom acquires Obihai Technology
ceg3:
Nobody knows at this point, but I wonder if the take over will mean new life for ASP's?
RFC3261:
Quote from: Taoman on January 04, 2018, 05:10:35 pm
....especially on this forum.
While making predictions is hard (especially about the future), I would actually expect that this forum will (eventually) get migrated (or closed) in preference to the existing Polycom community (one community to rule them all) as part of any eventual rebranding and integration.
RFC3261:
Quote from: SteveInWA on January 04, 2018, 04:48:17 pm
... as it will enable the combined company to provide more products
But there is also some product overlap (VoIP desktop phones), which in most acquisitions tends to mean some consolidation/alignment will occur for future products.
Do you have any experience with the current Polycom IP phone line compared to the current OBi IP phones? What features would a best of both worlds IP phone have (and which features would come from which line)?
SteveInWA:
Quote from: RFC3261 on January 11, 2018, 11:50:23 am
Quote from: SteveInWA on January 04, 2018, 04:48:17 pm
... as it will enable the combined company to provide more products
But there is also some product overlap (VoIP desktop phones), which in most acquisitions tends to mean some consolidation/alignment will occur for future products.
Do you have any experience with the current Polycom IP phone line compared to the current OBi IP phones? What features would a best of both worlds IP phone have (and which features would come from which line)?
I do expect that they will eventually merge the two companies' IP phone product lines somehow, but not in the near term. Polycom's products have had outstanding audio quality and reliability for years, and I suspect they'll evaluate many factors, such as manufacturing cost, market surveys, support cost, and features, before changing anything. Since the SIP IP phone market is pretty mature, the features and settings available on the two companies' products won't be that different, nor that big of a decision-point as the other factors (with the obvious exception of Google Voice, and of Obihai's remote management and provisioning expertise for carriers and ITSPs).
Marc:
As someone who has come to rely on the Google Voice since it's beginnings in 2009 and the OBi products since 2011 for my telephone, it worries me that a large company like Polycom may not choose to maintain the relationship that Obi/Google have nursed along. I didn't read anything in the Polycom press release to indicate one way or another.
I certainly hope OBi made it a priority in their agreement that the GV connection service would remain a stable part of their portfolio.
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