Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone, Asterisk & OCS: An Interview with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s EMEA VoIP Sales Manager
Recently, Polycom took home an award for “Best VoIP Hardware” at the the Internet Telephony Service Providers Awards held this past week in London, UK. Recently, we spoke with Chris Wortt, Polycom’s VoIP Sales Manager for the EMEA about the company, its award winning product, and where Polycom is headed. Below is a transcription of our call. [VoIPon] Chris, first off congratulations on your recent award win, that’s fantastic! Why do you think the Polycom VVX 1500 Business Media Phone was given the award for Best VoIP Hardware. Perhaps you can tell VoIPon’s listeners what makes it unique? [Chris Wortt, Polycom’s VoIP Sales Manager, EMEA]Well, thank you Kathleen, and thanks very much for noting the award. We’re very pleased to receive that so it’s great news for Polycom. Good question on the business media phone, the Polycom VVX 1500. Some of the reasons why, I think, are many of the qualities that Polycom is synonymous with in terms of the quality, in terms of ease of use, user interface etc., etc., have got to play a fairly major part in that. And the reliability, but probably more importantly, the organizations that have adopted this product, and the organizations that continue to find ways to adopt this product are realizing that VoIP is not a commodity market, although certainly in some areas it is, and this is actually something called a...
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