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By Jeffrey Schwartz

Two weeks before Plantronics announced its agreement to acquire Polycom for $2 billion, there were signs that the two companies were itching to expand to take advantage of the growing business of communications and collaboration.

At last month’s annual Enterprise Connect gathering of communications and conferencing partners and professionals, Plantronics, a longtime Cisco Unified Communications (UC) partner, announced a new partnership with Microsoft. The pact calls for Plantronics to offer a headset (pictured above) optimized for its Teams chatbot-based tool that will become the communications and conferencing interface now offered in Skype for Business for Office 365.

The event showcased some of the hottest new telephony-UC products available. Scroll through our gallery below to learn about them.