Meeting room technology used to mean one thing: a speakerphone in the middle of a table, picking up whoever leaned in close enough. Today the same job can be solved by at least seven genuinely different categories of hardware, ranging from a $40 wireless dongle to a system that also dims the lights and closes…
Headsets carry a stubborn reputation as call-centre equipment — something an agent wears because they’re on the phone all day, not something a regular office worker, a hybrid employee, or a warehouse picker would ever need. That assumption shrinks the market and misses most of the actual reasons a professional headset earns its place. The…
Joan Workplace sells itself as an all-in-one platform for booking rooms, desks, parking, and visitors, with a chatbot built in for good measure. None of that is what makes Joan worth a second look. The interesting part is the small screen mounted outside the meeting room door — because unlike almost every other room display…
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…
