Day 2 at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

Editors Note: VoIP Supply Product Manager, Tom Costelloe, is blogging from Toronto at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.  Click here for his Day 1 recap.

Day two at Microsoft WPC has been put to bed and it felt much busier from where I was standing in the Sangoma booth and walking the floor.

Maybe for the first day people walked the floor to take everything in and today, folks were about meetings and greetings with exhibitors and manufacturers.

The one takeaway I have from the people I have met is that, this really is an international event.   Over the last two days, I have meet people from several countries for the first time.

After diving into Lync headsets on day one, I thought that I would take a look at some of the Lync phones that were here on display.

Polycom (Booth #719)

On display from Polycom were the Polycom VVX 500 and 1500 phones as well as some of the CX phones. Polycom offers a variety of phones for both USB connectivity and traditional Ethernet.

The one piece of information I learned from Polycom is that the camera for the VVX 500 will be released before the end of the year (Video: Skip to 1:20 mark for camera demo) and that to expect a lot more to come from them in the Lync endpoint market.

The booth also featured their Lync optimized Video conferencing options but more on that to come tomorrow.

snom (Booth #457)

snom has their complete suite of snom phones as well as their Lync and Lync qualified phones.

The snom 300, snom 370, and snom 821 all can work with Lync installations and SIP based installations. This gives them flexibilty across a variety of installations.

Aastra (Booth #436)

Over at the Aastra booth, featured devices include SIP phones and video solutions.