Of every brand covered in this series, Cisco carries the longest history and the most expensive reputation. For close to two decades, that reputation also came with a closed-door policy: build the room, build the codec, build the network it all runs on, and keep the customer inside Cisco’s own walls. The fact that Cisco…
There’s a running joke in this industry that if your company hands you a ThinkPad, you can kiss your work-life balance goodbye — the brand is that synonymous with the hard-working, always-on laptop culture of startups and demanding enterprises alike. What gets missed in that joke is that Lenovo has spent close to a decade…
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…
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…
