Every wireless-sharing dongle covered in this series so far — Yealink’s, MAXHUB’s, the ones bundled into half the meeting rooms across this region — owes something to a single Belgian company most IT buyers have never directly bought from. Barco didn’t just make an early wireless presentation device. It built the patent portfolio that’s currently…
Most of the brands covered so far in this series sell a box: a headset, a video bar, a display. Mago sells none of that. It sells the layer that sits on top of whatever box is already in the room, and its pitch is refreshingly blunt: stop locking customers into one hardware ecosystem just…
MAXHUB doesn’t carry the recognition of Yealink or the Western pedigree of Neat, but it’s quietly become one of the most distributed AV brands in this region’s classrooms and meeting rooms. Some of that is genuine engineering — its wireless screen-sharing hardware solves a real annoyance better than most competitors bother to. Some of it…
Yealink doesn’t get talked about the way Jabra, Poly, or Logitech do, yet its phones sit on more desks worldwide than any other brand, its video bars show up in distributor catalogues right next to the household names, and it now makes headsets too. That breadth is the whole story here — Yealink isn’t competing…
Before any verdict on whether Neat has earned its market position or simply burned through a generous Zoom cheque, it helps to know what Neat actually is, who built it, what it sells, and how it’s priced. This post lays that foundation. The “market share or money dump” question gets its own piece later —…
Walk into almost any office that’s refreshed its hardware since 2021 and there’s a decent chance a Logitech camera or headset is sitting on the desk — a brand most people associate with mice and keyboards, not enterprise video and audio. That shift didn’t happen by accident, and neither did the quieter rebrand that’s been…
If the BIZ series is the headset distributors used to stock regularly because it’s reliable and affordable, the Engage series is the one Jabra built to be the actual top tier — the line aimed squarely at organisations that want the best available, not just the cheapest thing that works. It’s worth understanding properly, because…
HP Poly looks like one tidy name. Read it again and it’s actually a formula hiding three separate enterprise technology giants stacked on top of each other — Plantronics, Poly, and HP — each one a serious manufacturing power in its own right before any of this merging happened. Unlike Jabra’s relatively clean ownership story,…
If you’ve worked a contact centre floor anywhere in the Gulf, North Africa, or South Asia in the last fifteen years, there’s a good chance you’ve worn one of three headsets without ever really knowing their names: the BIZ 1500, the BIZ 2300, or the BIZ 2400 II. This is Jabra’s purpose-built contact-centre line, and…
QD (Quick Disconnect) isn’t really about disconnecting your headset to take a bathroom break. It’s the small plastic connector that lets manufacturers sell the same headset SKU into Cisco, Avaya, Yealink, and a hundred other phone brands — without building a single new product. Ask most resellers what QD (Quick Disconnect) means on a headset…
