3Com 3102 business phone out

3Com Corp. recently introduced its new 3Com 3102 business phone, the first member of a family of Internet protocol (IP) desktop phones designed to meet the needs of enterprises of any size and support 3Com’s own call control protocols and industry-standard session initiation protocol (SIP).

The 3Com 3102 business phone features a next-generation design focused on telephone voice quality with enhanced acoustic design and leveraging the emerging wideband audio standard, which significantly enhances speech transmission compared to conventional public switch telephone network (PSTN).

It also includes convenience and productivity features that make it an advanced business tool.

The 3Com 3102 business phone was designed to support the emerging wideband audio standards developed to enhance the quality of voice conversations.

A typical PSTN phone line reproduces speech at 3.3 kHz, a legacy of Alexander Graham Bell, while the 3102 phone can relay IP conversations at a frequency of 7 kHz or higher, enabling clearer and more productive phone calls.

Combined with the carrier-class 3Com VCX V7000 IP telephony solution, the 3Com SuperStack 3 NBX networked telephony solution, the 3Com NBX 100 communications system, the 3102 is SIP-compliant, protecting enterprises’ investments in IP telephony.

SIP enables multi-vendor interoperability and is also backward-compatible, allowing older SIP-based equipment to support new SIP applications.

"The 3Com 3102 business phone is the first in a new family of IP phones targeted to meet the needs of a global audience," said David Chu, 3Com executive director of product line management.

"When designing this phone, we took into account inputs from customer focus groups, research and design reviews, and experienced IP phone users to bring to market a device that has features and flexibility that increase productivity and reduce cost of ownership," he said.