With over 21 years of experience providing professional-quality audio solutions, VXi's history is the story of one breakthrough after another.
| 1989 |
VXi Corporation is founded in Rollinsford, NH with the mission of developing professional telephone headsets for the contact center marketplace. First product offering: The Gold Series telephone headset system. A lightweight, comfortable headset with superior sound quality and rugged durability, designed to withstand the rigors of contact center use. |
| 1990 | Development of custom headsets for NASA. |
| 1993 | VXi begins supplying Gold Series headsets to the David Clark Company, who supplies thousands of them to NASA ground support personnel. |
| 1994 | VXi expands its product line with the addition of the industry’s first telephone line-powered amplifier. Exclusive VXi technology enabled it to work with electronic telephones without batteries or AC power. |
| 1995 | VXi enters the speech recognition market with an OEM agreement with Dragon Systems. |
| 1997 | VXi is the first to market with a computer/telephone switch amplifier, providing high isolation between phone and computer and tailoring the voice responses for each application. |
| 2000 | VXi introduces its fourth-generation enhanced contact center headset product line, TuffSet™ |
| 2001 | VXi introduces the Everon™ multipurpose amplifier, the first amplifier to work directly with all major competitors’ headsets. New technology components give it three times the battery life. |
| 2004 | VXi introduces the Passport® line of headsets, compatible with all major headset manufacturers’ systems. |
| 2007 | The BlueParrott® line of Bluetooth® wireless headsets, designed for high-noise environments and available at most major truck stops and travel centers in the U.S. and Canada, takes off in the professional trucking market. |
| 2008 | The company re-establishes its distribution channel focus while developing new products for the contact center, office and mobile markets. |
| 2009 |
VXI introduces the BlueParrott B250-XT wireless headset, which quickly becomes the #1 selling headset with professional truckers. VXi introduces two new headsets for the contact center and office markets: the Passport® 21 single-wire binaural headset and the convertible Tria™, each available with three wearing styles. VXi introduces the BlueParrott® Xpressway™ wireless headset, featuring multipoint connection and three popular wearing styles. |
| 2010 |
VXi introduces the V100 wireless headset system, providing crystal-clear voice quality and hands-free mobility for office professionals. VXI expands our line of Unified Communications (UC) products with the introduction of the X100 and X200 USB adapters, delivering natural, high-quality audio for all computer-based voice applications. VXi is selected for membership in Avaya DevConnect program, joining a network of companies that creates innovative, IP-enabled Unified Communications applications to help companies become more productive and efficient. |
| 2011 |
VXi receives TMCnet's Customer Interaction Solutions® 2010 Product of the Year Awards for the V100 wireless headset system and the X200 USB adapter. VXi introduces the seven-model TalkPro line, designed for speech recognition accuracy. |
| 2012 |
VXi is recapitalized by Vicente Partners, a private equity firm with a long, successful track record partnering with management teams to create and realize value, along with the VXi management team. VXi adds two Bluetooth® headsets to its BlueParrott® line, the B250-XT+ and the Xpress™. Both knock out 94% of background noise and feature wideband audio, plus A2DP support for streaming Bluetooth audio. VXi unveils the UC ProSet™, with sound quality, comfort, interchangeability and a UC-ready design that put it in a class by itself. |