Enterprise VoIP solutions are a vast and diverse as any telecommunications market, but Wind Currents Communications brings something new to the table in its offering of V2VIP video phones. The six year old company has announced a product that is dramatically cheaper than other videoconferencing systems and has a major features advantage on any other telephone hardware against which is might compete.

Capitalizing on the rise in gas prices, Wind Currents is marketing their video phones as a cost-effective alternative to in-person meetings, though they are more likely to steal market share from Cisco, GoToMeeting Telepresence (News - Alert) and other videoconferencing services than they are from airlines. The video phone offers a 7” color LCD screen that transmits 30 frames per second of video while still allowing for crisp extension to extension, national or global calling to any standard telephone.

Wind Currents specializes in both voice and Voice over IP solutions for medium sized businesses, and prides itself in cost-effective business bundles. Most of Wind Currents’ customers conduct telemedicine and telehealthcare through the video phone products. This solution fits into a nice niche that is more reliable than Skype (News - Alert), and more affordable than WebEx by Cisco.

The pricing for devices and calling plans offer a wide range of flexible options and include such features as a hosted Virtual Attendant. Small companies can receive much the same service as features available to larger enterprise class purchasers. Wind Currents also makes their plans scalable allowing startup businesses to have a phone system that grows with them from three extensions into hundreds enabling both remote and in-house employee extensions under the same phone system.

While the video phone solution may not be the right telecommunications tool for everyone, it does bring a unique set of features to an industry that has been relatively stagnant for many years.