
Broadsoft is a switch used by many of the world's largest Internet and Communications Service Providers. Digium's Switchvox is one of hundreds of switches derived from Asterisk. Asterisk is an Open Source VoIP telephone system developed by Digium and thousands of freelance programmers. Polycom phones are compatible with Asterisk based switches and Broadsoft among others. Most hosted VoIP services are compatible with Polycom because Polycom led the market to VoIP and is still a market leader in IP telephony. Polycom SoundPoint IP connects directly to your Ethernet LAN connection provided you have a compatible VoIP switch of your own or you are subscribed to a compatible hosted VoIP service. Secure provisioning and field upgrade capability make Polycom the smart choice for VoIP. They operate on AC Power, IEEE PoE (Power over Ethernet), or Cisco PoE. The SoundPoint IP phones support multiple protocols (SIP, MGCP) running on the leading IP PBX and softswitch vendors' solutions (Digium, Asterisk, Broadsoft, Sphere, Pingtel, and many more). The SoundPoint IP line of desktop phones utilize Polycom's award-winning Acoustic Clarity Technology to deliver exceptional sound quality for full-duplex interactive conversations that are as natural as being there.
