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I tested the range of the Trio 8300 by stepping around 10 feet away from the unit and asked callers how I sounded. With a laptop-based phone call, we’re asked 10-20% of the time to repeat ourselves and we have trouble hearing the other party. It is so nice to be able to have a conference call with as many as 5 people, and for all of us to be fully audible to our callers. In a word, the Trio 8300 has performed marvelously. We have a conference room with brick on one side and a small amount of background noise (because the room isn’t totally noise-isolated), so it’s a good testing place for this conference calling phone. I’ve placed calls on the Trio 8300 in our conference room, which is sized appropriately for the unit. For example, our network is WPA2-PSK – I had to set that preference in our Trio 8300’s menu. Note: you’ll need to know your organization’s Wi-Fi Network type, SSID and passcode. To accomplish this, I followed Poly’s instructions. One last step I had, after the reboot, was enabling Wi-Fi on the Trio 8300 according to the setup in our conference room. In just a few minutes, I simply navigated to the Admin settings, then Network Configuration, then Provisioning Server, changed the Server Type to HTTP and set the server address to - then, the Poly Trio 8300 power cycled itself and the phone came back ready to use! Zero-touch provisioning is clearly the way to go, but as this 8300 came direct from Poly, I set it up. If the Trio 8300, or any Poly device is ordered via the SkySwitch Store, it comes auto-provisioned.

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Setting up on SkySwitch’s network is easy - simply find your device’s MAC address on the onscreen menus and migrate to the management dashboard to add the Trio to your organization’s account. Once I had the Poly Trio 8300 unboxed and on the network, the conference phone boots up for the initial set up. Simply remove the plastic and attach the physical cords, and your Trio 8300 will boot up, assume an IP address on your local network, and you’re ready for provisioning and set up. In the box, you’ll find the Trio unit itself along with a power adapter and an ethernet cord. As expected, it’s 3-star shape is designed in a way to pick up voices, as this is a conference-calling phone.

The Poly Trio 8300 is an attractive UFO-looking device that is designed to fit nicely in your huddle or conference room’s desk setup.

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Full call management including call forwarding, waiting, do-not-disturb and more.

Color LED lights that indicate call and mute status.

A useful on-screen display for call management.

WiFi connectivity for cord-free collaboration.

Three microphones designed to pick up voices up to 12’ away.

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The conference phone features noise-blocking technology, adeptly called NoiseBlock, Bluetooth connectivity and is compatible with video conferencing solutions including Zoom, Skype for Business, WebEx and more. The Poly Trio 8300 is the least expensive Poly conference calling solution aimed at small meeting spaces or huddle rooms aimed at calls with 2-5 people. Today we’ll take a look at the Trio 8300 conference phone, which is intended to be a smart conferencing solution for small meeting rooms. Poly’s Trio line of conference phones brings a robust variety of features, capabilities and options for businesses and conference rooms of all sizes. Thankfully, this is why Poly has conference calling phones that make everyone’s phone collaboration easy and so headache-free. It’s comical because, typically, we huddle around one person’s laptop, which is unfortunate for the person we’re calling because they can’t hear people who are sitting a few feet away from the hosts’ laptop.

We also call each other directly when meetings are between smaller groups. In our company’s case, we use a variety of conference calling solutions based on who we’re meeting with, including WebEx, Zoom, UberConference, Microsoft Teams and Amazon Chime - and also GoToMeeting and the like. Thus, we often struggle with the quality of voice calls and as a result, our business meetings suffer. I work for a small company and as a small business, we try to conduct our conference calls the best we can - on our laptops.