ClearOne comm Tabletop Conference Phones - Manual

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
ClearOne’s MAX tabletop conference phones deliver rich, full-duplex audio in a wide variety of conference room settings and at an
affordable price. MAX phones are offered in analog wired, analog wireless, and SIP-based versions, and deliver unprecedented
expansion capabilities. Instead of providing only expansion microphones, MAXAttach offers multiple linked phones, each with
microphones, loudspeakers, and dial pad controls for outstanding full-room coverage. No matter where participants are seated,
conversations are natural and effortless.
A single MAX phone is typically used in small- to medium-sized conference rooms, executive offices, and home offices.
MAXAttach is designed for medium- to large-sized rooms and can support up to 4 total phones daisy-chained together.
COMPETITION
The MAX phones compete directly with Polycom’s SoundStation phones. Since its release in 2003, we have consistently taken
market share from Polycom and have become #2 in the tabletop market.
DIFFERENTIATORS
There are four main areas in which we differentiate ourselves from the competition:
Audio Quality and Performance
Room Coverage
Price
Warranty
AUDIO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
Every MAX phone comes with high performance audio processing technologies that are found in our professionally installed audio
conferencing solutions. Customers who perform side-by-side tests are always telling us that our phones sound better than the
competition.
Each MAX phone contains three microphones, providing full 360° audio pickup, and a large speaker. An audio industry leader
for many years, ClearOne has developed a number of important audio processing technologies that are included in each MAX
phone:
Full-Duplex: This simply means that the audio is a two-way street—call participants can both talk and listen at the same time.
Many devices claim to be full-duplex but really deliver only half-duplex performance, meaning that when one participant is
talking, he cannot hear anything being said from the far side without substantial audio clipping or suppression.
Distributed Echo Cancellation®: One of the biggest challenges in delivering good sound quality during a conference call is
eliminating acoustical echo. Canceling echo is especially important with speaker phone devices. A telephone handset does not
need echo cancellation since there is physical isolation between the microphone and the speaker. However, since a speaker
phone’s mic and speaker are close to each other and not isolated, the mic can pick up audio from the far side coming through
the speaker and return it back to the far side, creating an echo. ClearOne’s Distributed Echo Cancellation® solves this problem
by identifying the echo and eliminating it. ClearOne is a pioneer in echo cancellation technology and was the first to introduce
Distributed Echo Cancellation in 1998.
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