Jabra Headsets Turn Rochester Institute of Technology into a Personalized Hybrid Work Experience

By choosing Avaya Cloud Office on RingCentral, RIT has the opportunity to unlock the full potential of its workforce and power equitable collaboration for workers wherever they are. Built on RingCentral’s open platform with over 200 pre-built business solution integrations, users can keep the tools they love and will be able to integrate them with Avaya Cloud Office. Users can also benefit from Avaya enterprise-grade features and services with the ease and speed of the leading cloud unified communications platform to meet their unique requirements and budget.

RIT took things a step further by offering employees Jabra’s leading audio solutions as the perfect pairing for Avaya Cloud Office. Every team member had the option to choose from Jabra’s entire Evolve2 lineup, ensuring they had a headset or earbud that worked best for them. The audio solutions allowed for seamless conversations regardless of where workers are located, helping ensure operations went unscathed as remote working took shape.

Since Jabra and RingCentral are strategic partners, their customers – including RIT – can get integrated call control functionality between the audio solutions and UCaaS platform (e.g. answer, hold, mute , hang up, reject call, volume up/down, etc.). This gives end users the ability to control calls directly from the headset, speaker and/or the platform, which has strong benefits for productivity and user satisfaction.

Management at RIT had tested multiple headset options to ensure they aligned with their new cloud software and phone systems, and Jabra stood out with its exceptional audio quality and truly ready-to-use ability.

“Our biggest pain point was audio quality and making headsets simple and seamless to set up with Bluetooth pairing, etc. Going with Jabra, we can say ‘Hey, we're finally able to plug and play.’” - Knycos Ferguson, Support Lead IV Finance and Administration

Currently, Rochester Institute of Technology has 2,300 Jabra headsets in use, including 800 each of the Evolve2 65 and Evolve2 Buds. But their collaboration with Jabra doesn’t stop there. Enter the Jabra Speak 750.

With full duplex audio and omnidirectional microphones, the Speak 750 allows participants to hold completely natural conversations and have them flow just as they do in person. Coupled with Jabra's headsets, this unrivaled crystal-clear audio combination brings remote and in-person participants closer together – allowing the Rochester Institute of Technology employees to thrive in today’s hybrid work environment.

“Strong relationships with strategic hardware and software partners are critical as we continue to address the challenges around fostering collaboration in modern work environments, and we are thrilled to be working with innovative partners like RingCentral and Jabra,” - Knycos Ferguson, Support Lead IV Finance and Administration