Re: Telephones for Noisy Data Centers

[Andrew Jones <aj () jonesy com au>]

Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:38 -0700, sean head wrote:
>   
> > Nathan Ward wrote:
> >     
> > > On 18/06/2009, at 1:31 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > All,
> > > >     I'd be OK if we were in a facility that was only average in terms of
> > > > noise, but we are not. I need an exceptional phone for the data center.
> > > > Something that doesn't transmit the horrible background noise to the
> > > > other end, and something that is loud without being painful for the user
> > > > of this phone. Cordless would be very fine, headset is excellent.
> > > > Ordinary desk phone is OK... but the most important thing is that it
> > > > works for clear communication. A loud ringer would great too... but if
> > > > the best phone doesn't have one, I'll get an auxiliary ringer.
> > > >
> > > >     Does anyone have a phone model that they find to be excellent in a
> > > > louder than usual data center?
> > > >         
> > > Not 100% what you asked for, but the noise cancelling Jawbone
> > > bluetooth earpieces are great.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nathan Ward
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > Cordless phone that does bluetooth + jawbone was the first thing that
> > popped into my head as well.
> >
> > -Sean
> >
> >     
>
> Hmm... I actually have one of those... but when my car came with
> built-in Bluetooth speaker phone, I haven't used it since. I'll dig it
> up and I'll try it out in the data center for the near-term. I'd rather
> a real headset that doesn't feel like it's falling out of my ear and
> something that other people can use too. I have had a couple pretty good
> suggestions off-list  so far that are over the ear solutions. Keep `em
> coming...
>
> Mike
>   
I haven't actually used one of these but the acoustic background noise 
cancelling, rather than an electronic solution is intriguing...
http://www.theboom.com/v/index.html