The Spectralink 8400 Series is designed with diverse workplaces in mind such as healthcare, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and general office.

The handset is designed to allow workers to communicate with other colleagues on site quickly and easily by utilising the industry standard SIP protocol for communication with VoIP PBXs and offering advanced features such as integrating communication with Microsoft® Office Communications Server instant messaging.

The advantage of the concept is that keeping your old hardware in place and just hooking it up to Speakeasy’s SIP based network will save significant expenditure on hardware procurement. It’s not a particularly new approach to the problem of voip deployment in the sense that analog to voip converters have been around since the first days of voip but the offering of an integrated product with support for fairly-large existing PBXs certainly is.

That’s all assuming I understood their press release correctly

Speakeasy press release: http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr030209b.php

This is a regular bug fix version, a complete changelog can be found here.

When deployed, Bria (and presumably other SIP standard) users will be able to dial a four digit number to create a conference on the Quick Conference server.

Quick Conference features web-based administration, IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook calendar integration and remote management via PDA.