{"id":10319,"date":"2014-03-17T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sennheiser_rounds_out_portfolio.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:38","slug":"sennheiser-rounds-out-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/sennheiser-rounds-out-portfolio.html","title":{"rendered":"Sennheiser Rounds Out Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/Photo 20140317171911.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/Photo 20140317171911.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1395091173804.1362\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"521\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The UC space is alive and well even as it moves from the customer premise to the cloud. To learn more about the market I had a conversation with <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/call-center\/0705\/executive-spotlight-whearty.htm\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Whearty<\/a> (pictured), VP Sales &#038; Product Marketing at <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Sennheiser where <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">he told me their <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">70-year history of making microphones and headphones shows we know how to reproduce sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Now, the company is making an aggressive push into various segments of the UC market and is working to add certifications. For example, they redesigned their <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">DECT wireless headset last year in the US and will soon roll out a new <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">bluetooth office headset.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"> Next up will be a speakerphone this April. All the new headsets are Microsoft Lync certified and Cisco Jabber certification is coming as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Whearty mentioned that he beleives headsets are not a commodity and although his company&#8217;s products cost 5-10% more than others, he doesnt beleive you will get a lower TCO from any other vendor. He cited Kevlar coated cables &#8211; an important area to reinforce as these are a typical headset weak point. Moreover, he explained how many in the industry use a plastic headset speaker ring &#8211; while they use Teflon instead, to protect this other headset weak point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Headsets and audio technology have come a long way from the early day of corded headsets in the contact center which were cheap and plastic. The amount of innovation in today&#8217;s products continues to amaze as they can reduce background noise and apply complex filters to minimize wind and other distractions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">2014 and beyond could be a very positive time for consumers as Sennheiser gets aggressive and the competition responds with more and even better products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\" id=\"blogsy_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The UC space is alive and well even as it moves from the customer premise to the cloud. To learn more about the market I had a conversation with William Whearty (pictured), VP Sales &#038; Product Marketing at Sennheiser where he told me their 70-year history of making microphones and headphones shows we know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,202,172,215,199,189,203,211,118,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}