The 2022 Unified Communication Resource eBook

Unified

Communications 2022 Resource eBook

Index Who is Starin?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Starin Tools + Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Unified Communications Flexibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 Ways to Level Up Your Team's Video Conferencing Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Seamless Collaboration Regardless of Future Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini Make Equitable Meetings Possible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Powerful Meeting Equality. . . . . . . . 10

Support Your Equipment with the Floor, Not the Wall. . . . . . 30

Speaker Framing Enables Inclusive and Equitable Video Meeting Experiences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Creating Meeting Equity for Hybrid Work with Smart Gallery on DTEN D7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Huddly and Stem Audio Craft the Perfect All- in-One Conferencing Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Making Office Space Make Sense in a Remote World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Time and Expense Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Go Hybrid or Lose the War for Talent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mi Support Assurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Who is Starin?

We are the market leader in the distribution of Unified Communications.

Our experience, our partnerships and our adaptations to market

demands are the focus of our company and our mission. We help people

around the world communicate and collaborate better, by caring more and being better. With the experience we provide and the technology

we support, Starin helps its partners discover the best performance and value for their businesses. Get in touch with one of our team members now at MyTeam@starin.biz to learn more. We’re happy to assist.

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Unified Communications Flexibility

For most of us, collaboration looks very different now that the hybrid model of work has become the norm. Your team may need to meet in a variety of spaces, or simply use different tools. That's why unified communications need flexibility to stay in line with this trend.

This ebook will show you the value of modern UC tools, what successful teams have learned about collaboration in the hybrid workplace, and how you can lead your organization to success with the right technology.

Do you need UC flexibility?

In a Wainhouse 2019 survey of IT decision makers, most large enterprises revealed they had three or more distinct meeting solution vendors in their environment.

-Wainhouse, Logitech 2019 5

5 Ways to Level Up Your Team’s Video Conferencing Experience

By Logitech

Despite the rapid acceleration of video conferencing, millions of people still make do with built-in webcams and microphones that produce poor-quality video and audio. It’s no wonder that one in three employees worldwide demand better video conferencing equipment – and it’s also no wonder that experienced ITDMs prefer Logitech

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Personal Collaboration solutions for their team.

Logitech’s personal collaboration portfolio raises the standard of business-grade video conferencing

with HD clarity, high dynamic range, and crisp audio to ensure your customer’s staff look and sound their best wherever they’re working from.

Here are five tips to help improve your customer’s video collaboration experience.

1. Make sure everyone is well-lit It’s hard to look one’s best on a video call without proper lighting, and since not all employees will have a sunsoaked home office, organizations should provide the necessary tools to ensure a well-lit video call. When everyone can be seen clearly, teams can focus on ideas and collaboration rather than technical issues.

To avoid being backlit, encourage employees to sit facing a window during video calls. However, not everyone has a well-lit space in their home - which it’s why it’s important to have the right equipment to fix lighting-related issues.

Logitech’s built-in RightLight technology adjusts to the conditions of any room, ensuring that teams are always shown in their best light.

Teams will be able to see each other’s faces clearly, rather than blurry silhouettes. And with high dynamic range technology, Logitech webcams

automatically adjust to highlight the most important subject: team members.

2. Streamline the video conferencing experience with third-party integration Work can be more efficient and more secure when devices and software integrate with each other.

For instance, Logitech Brio is certified or compatible with leading video conferencing services like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, RingCentral Video, BlueJeans, Google Meet™, and more.

That means employees can jump right into virtual meetings without delays or confusion.

And Brio’s Windows Hello integration makes logging in quicker and safer for your staff. Secure facial recognition ensures they’ll never have to type a Windows 10 password again, minimizing support tickets due to forgotten credentials.

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3. Provide crisp, clear audio in any situation

general noise reduction at the touch of a button.

Most audio accessories were made simply to output audio. And, sure, they get the job done, but work requires more robust features. For instance, Logitech Zone Wired and Wireless headsets were designed specifically to enhance focus by blocking out unnecessary distractions with active noise canceling, all while delivering a quality audio experience.

4. Keep video conferencing equipment at peak performance

Employees may need help adjusting settings or running updates on their video conferencing devices, but with Logi Tune, they won’t have to submit IT tickets for help. This management software allows employees to take charge of the video meeting experience by adjusting webcam zoom, field of Busy cafes, cramped kitchens, and view, focus mode, and filters, as well as crowded commuter trains are no match headset audio performance. Tune can for the Zone headset’s crisp sound, also alert them to update their devices active noise cancellation, and flip-towith the latest firmware. With full mute mic. Users can also swap between control over all equipment, everyone devices seamlessly, making it possible can optimize their devices to suit their to transition from phone conversations unique needs, without asking IT for to video meetings, or from music to help every time.

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5. Boost productivity for remote workers Nobody enjoys feeling left out during hybrid calls - and now they won’t have to. With Logi Dock, users can turn working from home from a compromise into an advantage. This all-in-one docking station enables remote staff to collaborate better by simplifying their video conferencing experience. Employees can join and control meetings in one tap with calendar integration, so working from home becomes simple and seamless - all while reducing desktop clutter by connecting and charging up to five USB peripherals and two monitors.

Combine this with powerful, bassrich speakers and six noise-canceling

microphones, and you’ve got a center of video collaboration from home, all housed in a sleek, desk-friendly design.

Boost employee productivity with the right tools Enabling staff to work better, be more productive, and achieve more can be as simple as ensuring they have the right equipment to perform at their best. When your customers invest in purpose-built video conferencing tools, they also make IT’s job easier by minimizing trouble tickets and reducing the need for site visits through remote management capabilities. Do your customers have everything they need to work productively from home?

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Powerful Meeting Equality

By Poly

The hybrid work environment opens a ton of possibilities for your customer’s organization. Companies who embrace this shift can evolve their company culture. They can secure and retain the best talent, foster greater employee satisfaction, improve accessibility for everyone, and transform customer interactions. To be successful all employees must be able to fully

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engage and participate on an equal basis. Inclusive technology: People focused video. Distraction-free audio.

Intuitive, frictionless, effortless. Poly is here so their business can be anywhere.

Every meeting has people joining from

different workspaces and with different workstyles. But when their team is equipped with the technology to perform at their best, those differences won’t make for distractions.

Like all the best new hires, each of Poly’s solutions jump right in and get to work. Our products integrate seamlessly with most video and audio-conferencing platforms. With a longrunning partnership with Microsoft, Poly offers a suite of products made especially for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. Why do we do all this? To avoid introducing yet another system into your customer’s

Poly Studio

workflow and instead, intuitively become part of their everyday.

The Poly Studio family of premium video bars offer solutions for focus, small, medium, and large conference rooms. Poly’s Acoustic Fence captures

Poly Studio X30 + X50

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Poly Studio X70

only the voices within a defined space, blocking outside conversation from interrupting, and with our group framing and automatic speaker tracking, the connection feels personal.

Whether your customer is looking for plug-and-play simplicity or a complete room solution, Poly has every room covered.

tracking. Ideal for Huddle rooms that need an all-in-one video solution.

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Poly Studio X70

Automatic speaker tracking. Ideal for Huddle rooms that need to connect to multiple platforms over USB.

Poly Studio X50 Production quality automatic group framing, speaker framing, and presenter tracking. Ideal for small to midsized rooms that need all-in-one conferencing.

Dual cameras with 4K lenses, pinpointaccurate speaker tracking and group framing from Poly DirectorAI technology. Ideal for medium to large Poly Studio X30 conference rooms that need all-in-one Production-quality camera framing and conferencing.

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Speaker Framing Enables Inclusive and Equitable Video Meeting Experiences

By Huddly

Huddly is excited to announce Speaker Framing, a powerful new AI feature for immersive video meetings. Speaker Framing is the first smart experience to be launched exclusively on our networked camera platform consisting of Huddly S1 and Huddly L1.

With people working from different places, video is the place where they come together. Speaker Framing makes video conversations feel as natural and engaging as those that take place in person.

Speaker Framing leverages the latest advances in our smart camera technology.

Huddly L1 and S1 feature new directional microphones that are able to detect the location of people in the meeting room. In combination with image sensor input, Speaker Framing uses this data to 14

frame the conversation intelligently.

Switching between those who are speaking and those who are listening, it captures everybody’s reactions and facial expressions. This results in a more natural and immersive video experience.

CEO Alexander Woxen comments: “Speaker Framing and Huddly S1 mark major milestones for us. Like everything

Huddly S1 and L1 represent the next generation of smart cameras

we do, S1 pushes the boundaries of what’s possible to create an equitable and inclusive experience for all. With Speaker Framing, we are swiftly responding to the challenges and opportunities of the hybrid workplace.”

Huddly S1 and L1 represent the next generation of smart cameras, boasting Huddly’s most powerful hardware and software to date.

Huddly S1 with Speaker Framing is available for order now and will ship in Q2. Huddly L1 will receive Speaker Framing through a software update in Q2.

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Huddly and Stem Audio Craft the Perfect All-in-One Conferencing Solution

By Huddly

Huddly and Stem Audio provide exceptional video and sound in any room.

When Stem Audio designed the custom Huddly IQ mounting accessory, they knew it would deliver wide-angle video and intelligent features to the innovative Stem Wall soundbar solution. Stem Audio and Huddly focus on removing the pains and complexities historically associated with conference room technology and integration. Both companies boldly push the boundaries of innovation with an advanced vision of what the future holds for this space. By partnering with Huddly, Stem grows even more powerful with data-rich feedback delivered via the camera’s highly intelligent software.

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Outfitting a space with Stem Audio?

Complete your ecosystem with Huddly Cameras. Stem and Huddly both believe in bringing a great user experience to conference rooms in the form of a complete and customizable solution. Stem Control is the perfect device to integrate Stem Audio and Huddly Video along with seamless integrations with your favorite video conferencing platforms for touch-tojoin meetings; therefore, creating a full solution.

Stem and Huddly both believe in bringing a great user experience to conference rooms in the form of a complete and customizable solution

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Time and expense considerations for equipping and configuring meeting spaces with unified communications equipment for every project.

When considering outfitting business and office spaces for improved communications and collaboration, there are many options and conditions to consider to avoid wasting time and expense. In most cases, wall remediation must be performed in affected rooms before mounting video displays. From the perspective of cost and time, consider the following:

Additional important requirements to consider.

Wall Blocking.

When displays are mounted and do not extend more than 4” from the wall, it’s typical to design the displays as floating with no furniture underneath.

This strengthens the wall to support display weight and mount and ensures safety and security that the display will not fall.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires any object that protrudes 4” or more from the wall must have something beneath it to allow for cane sweep.

This is to prevent injury of the visually impaired.

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Rewiring.

Power and Network connections must be relocated (or installed) to locations behind where the display is mounted.

Depending on the building, type and number of displays, geographic location and skilled trades and permits can be required. The cost per room for these two construction procedures can range from $3k-$16k or more.

This means multiple trades must be coordinated for the project. This takes 3-5 weeks or more for room completion. This can disrupt normal office operations and/or require additional project management to ensure all trades are aligned, timed correctly and completed 18 scheduled. as

This requirement is satisfied by building the display into the wall at additional cost or using furniture below the display that also could cost thousands more.

This necessitates some electronics being overcrowded behind the display—which can cause an unsightly look and impede serviceability resulting in downtime if any component fails.

Traditional methods are not amenable to future changes.

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Wall construction cannot be moved to a new room when a room is repurposed, for example moving a team huddle space to a private office.

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Moving from a single to a dual display can be extremely or even prohibitively expensive.

Both cases above require more wall construction and incur additional expense.

Common delays and project confusion can result in additional cost and time.

Additionally, with multiple trades involved, often there are delays and mix-ups resulting in the incorrect size of conduit or power and AV receptacle locations.

This leads to more downtime, more wall construction and even exposed wires which are unattractive and distracting.

Using Salamander Designs products and services to equip and configure meeting spaces with unified communications saves trades, time, money and helps get the job done.

Utilizing Salamander Designs has saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars on multimillion-dollar projects.

The savings enable us to buy more technology for more rooms in the budget. – JPMC Whether new construction or retrofitting, Salamander Designs saves great expense and time when deploying technology in conference and meeting spaces as they manufacture adaptable furniture systems that beautifully integrate with unified communications technology.

Salamander provides complete room solutions for boutique type up to global standards installations, suitable for new construction, remodeling and temporary setups.

With Salamander, it’s unnecessary to prep the room for wall remediation to mount video displays. There is no need for additional trade companies for install when using a technology Credenza with a UL Listed integrated mounting system.

Salamander Designs manufactures Cabinets and Credenzas with integrated video mounts for single or dual displays. These range in depth from 12”-30”.

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The Credenzas are specified per use case and designed for the meeting space environment and all the technology that’s specified for the room.

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All power and ethernet connectivity can be at the standard 18” locations; all connections run from the cabinet behind a modesty panel to the display(s) mounted on the Salamander-provided display mount and all wiring and other aspects are neatly hidden from sight.

Salamander Solutions Enable: Quick, easy installation and service – usually a two-man crew in less than a day Easily moved systems that can be changed in the future Cabinets to be adapted onsite to support more displays or changes upon arrival Matching aesthetics in office décor that can be redone to match future changes A variety of affordable options as Cabinets typically range from $4k-$10k Shorter deployment, from 1-4 weeks to 1 business day with a single trade Lifetime value-retrofittable for new technology standards and new use cases.

Salamander cabinets are available in a wide variety of finishes plus unlimited custom options ensuring a perfect match to any workplace environment.

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With Salamander, you can deliver solutions to meet most any room layout, size and need. Go small, medium, large – even go mobile. Our simple systems can equip a digital messaging board up to a multi-level conference center – and everything in between. Scalable Cabinet, Table, Mobile Cart and Stand solutions allow you to be nimble, flexible and use just what you need when you need it.

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Custom Cabinets

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Your next meeting can be your best meeting, with help from Salamander Designs. Together, we make workplace collaboration unbeatable. www.salamandercommercial.com

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Go Hybrid or Lose the War for Talent

By Barco

1 in 3 employees want to change jobs due to hybrid working issues. In today’s workplace, working conditions are as important as salaries to attract and retain employees. Workers expect their employers to be fully equipped for a more hybrid way of working. With much needed policies, technology

and redesigned offices. How gravely is the job satisfaction of employees worldwide impacted?

See The War for Talent Infographic here.

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Seamless Collaboration Regardless of Future Decisions

By Barco

Meet Navistar. They are an international company headquartered in the Chicago area and they are a leading manufacturer of commercial trucks, buses, defense vehicles and engines. Like so many of us during the coronavirus lockdown, the team members at Navistar have become adept at videoconferencing from home. But recently, their team started returning to the office. They needed a solution that would allow them to continue to host video conferences that go beyond a single laptop and that includes the active participation of everyone in the room as well as of external participants.

Hybrid solutions for hybrid offices Navistar required solutions to turn a number of their traditional conference rooms into full video conference rooms right away. With about 35% of their workforce back in the office, they still needed to connect those in the office with those working remotely. And while the laptop was a great tool for participating in video conferences, its camera and audio are designed for 22

one person at a time. Using ClickShare Conference to connect instantly and wirelessly to all the speakers, mics, and cameras in existing conference rooms, employees were able to still run the meeting from their laptop (and video conferencing software of choice), while capturing all the participants in the room on video with the room camera.

An immediate need In addition to the hybrid workplace challenges many are facing today, Navistar had an added layer of urgency in getting video conference rooms set up. They were in merger talks with Volkswagen. This meant a lot of communication was required between department heads and within individual departments as well. Communication that couldn’t to be sent over email or handled over the phone. These meetings needed

to be conducted in a way that expressions could be read, and non-verbal communication could be utilized. ClickShare Conference not only met these needs, but because Barco is a large government contractor operating within the requirements of being a GCC (Govt Community Cloud) Tenant, we also provided them with an option that met the requirements for collaboration in the most secure communications on government contracts.

Room friendly and user friendly In order for video conferencing to be effective, it needs to be easy to use. Because ClickShare Conference instantly and wirelessly connects to cameras, speakers, and mics from just about any manufacturer, Navistar made it easy for all team members to set up a video conference within seconds. The fact that it’s an open system with no need for cables and adapters, makes hybrid meetings as intuitive and straightforward as face-to-face.

Users can seamlessly mix and match between Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom and many more. No additional software needed, no touch panels to control, no settings to be managed.

Navistar could enjoy the same, oneclick user experience in all rooms.

“With ClickShare, collaboration is seamless regardless of future decisions on AV setup or video conferencing platforms.”

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Worked so well, they expanded it For Navistar, there was only about a two-week turnaround from inception of the idea to the first of 20 installations.

The video conference rooms they created worked so well and were so intuitive to use, they expanded their scope and created another 30.

These video conference rooms have been helpful in connecting team members as they navigate the new normal of hybrid office as well as their merger talks. On October 19th, it was announced that Navistar International accepted a new merger offer from The Volkswagen Group, adding to the number of remote participants on each video conference.

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“We turned our conference rooms into fully equipped hybrid rooms, ready for videocalls from a laptop with any UC&C platform.”

-Matthew Riebe, Desktop Engineer Lead at Navistar Inc.

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RightSight 2 and CollabOS 1.5 for Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini Make Equitable Meetings Possible

By Logitech

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CollabOS 1.5 Update Also Adds Convenience and Control for IT as Well as a New Certification for Tap Scheduler With so many people continuing to work remotely and organizations adapting to a long-term hybrid environment, employers are prioritizing meeting equity—the idea that everyone can participate equally in video meetings regardless of location. The problem employers want to solve is that meetings involving a combination of in-person and remote attendees often create a subpar experience for the remote participants.

Remote attendees struggle to see the people speaking or hear the

conversations going on in the room.

They may also have fewer opportunities to contribute to collaboration, and as a result they can often feel left out.

With the release of CollabOS 1.5, a free software update, Logitech is taking steps to solve these concerns and create a more immersive and inclusive meeting experience.

This release also includes new features that customers have requested, including the ability to 1) access device settings in a web browser over a secure connection, 2) customize the image or 27

message shown on room monitors, and 3) deploy Tap Scheduler to meeting rooms as a Microsoft Teams panel. See details below.

Showing the two views together gives remote meeting participants both a close up of the active speaker and situational context of what’s happening in the room. A clear view of the person Introducing RightSight 2 and speaking also allows remote attendees Speaker View to Support Meeting to see body language, facial gestures, Equity and other non-verbal cues that are vital to communication and collaboration.

RightSight 2, a collection of advanced technologies designed to create a Speaker View is now available on better, more equitable far-end video cloud conferencing partner platforms, experience, adds an entirely new including: viewing mode to Rally Bar and Rally Bar • Microsoft Teams Rooms on Mini called Speaker View.

Android and Windows Speaker View uses audio intelligence • Zoom Rooms and the two-camera system in Rally Bar • Google Meet and Rally Bar Mini to detect and show • GoTo Room the active speaker, while also showing • RingCentral Rooms the entire room. By default, the room • Pexip Rooms view is shown as a smaller picture-in• Tencent Meeting Rooms picture inset within the main view of the person speaking.

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Additionally, RightSight 2 can be used to provide unique, platform-specific experiences.

For example, Logitech has integrated RightSight 2 with the Zoom Rooms Smart Gallery platform to provide a multi-stream experience for remote participants to see the active speaker and room views in separate tiles in the gallery. Additional platform integrations will be released through future CollabOS updates.

Customizing the Wallpaper on Room Displays in BYOD Mode You can now customize the image that is shown on screen in meeting rooms with Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini that are set up in BYOD mode.

Tap Scheduler Is Now Certified as a Microsoft Teams Panel

With the certification of Logitech Tap Scheduler for Teams panels, Teams Need ideas for what to display? Try users can confidently deploy Tap showing instructions with steps on how Scheduler as a scheduling display for to start a meeting or connect a laptop. meeting rooms. Tap Scheduler makes Add an inspirational quote, corporate it easy to see availability at a distance, slogan, or mission statement. Or review meeting details, and reserve a simply use your customer’s corporate room for ad hoc or future meetings. branding, such as a logo and colors.

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Support Your Equipment with the Floor, Not the Wall

By Heckler

Heckler AV Wall Structure is engineered walls in preparation of video meeting to transfer the weight of your system deployments. equipment to the floor, not the wall.

This eliminates the need to reinforce

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Support for almost any display Don’t let the trend towards large displays complicate your deployments.

Heckler AV Wall Structure supports 65-inch to 100-inch displays with a variety of VESA mounting patterns from 300mm to 900mm.

We’ve constructed Heckler AV Wall Structure like a tank.

Support for most anything We’ve constructed Heckler AV Wall Structure like a tank. A mix of 12-gauge, 10-gauge, and quarter-inch-thick steel - with continuous welds - this structure is your reliable infrastructure for years to come. Anchored to your wall studs to prevent forward tipping - your installations create virtually no wall damage. Keep your organization ready to adapt to changing floor plans and office moves.

Made for all of your future configurations With a Heckler AV Wall Structure installed in your meeting spaces, you have the flexibility to configure each space for video meetings and collaboration. The Heckler AV Wall product family includes an evergrowing assortment of accessories like Video Meeting Kit, Dual Display Kit, and

Controller Mount, in a variety of colors.

Designed to work together With Video Meeting Kit added to your Heckler AV Wall Structure, you’re ready to mount your camera atop its shelf and conveniently store and organize cables and devices behind its eyecatching front panel. The kit is designed to mount in front of your pre-existing wall outlets to create a clean look and to eliminate the need to call an 31

electrician. Every element of the kit works in harmony to empower your video meeting system deployments.

Designed for rack-mounted components

Great. Device Panel also features a grid of VESA-compatible M4 holes so you can fasten components directly to the panel. When your panel is ready to deploy, simply hang it to any Heckler AV Wall Structure.

Tucked neatly behind its front panel are Designed to impress two, 1RU 19-inch rack-mount locations perfect for power distribution and other While Heckler AV Wall solves many 1RU and half-rack components. technical challenges, its greatest strength is its looks. A beautifully Designed to tame the mess sculpted, fabric-wrapped panel adds a premium, modern focal point in With Video Meeting Kit’s Device Panel your meeting spaces. Heckler AV you can mount and organize small Wall has the presence of furniture, devices and cables from the comfort without needlessly occupying precious of a table top in your office. Strap floorspace. And your IT and AV team everything to the aluminum grid will be impressed with how easy the pattern using the provided hook and panel installs and how easy it is for loop straps and buckles. Got VESAthem to access their gear. mountable accessories like mini PCs? 32

Designed to complement The best collaboration spaces have personality. To help you create personality, we offer Video Meeting Kit with a white or black grey shelf and a front panel wrapped in premium Maharam fabrics in five modern colors.

Made for big dual displays Comfortable video meetings require large displays. And dual displays help to provide a dedicated screen for shared content. But dual-mounting large displays can create all sorts of challenges. Our Dual Display Kits make it easy to support dual displays with the floor, not the wall.

Our standard Dual Display Kit supports dual 65 and Dual 75-inch displays. Dual Display Kit XL supports dual displays

from 82 to 100-inches. That’s up to 15+ feet of display space!

Made to align With the turn of two adjustment screws, you can bring two large displays into perfect alignment. With the time you’ll save by mounting your dual displays with Heckler AV Wall, you could take your kids to Disney World.

Cable routing made easy Heckler AV Wall Structure’s legs enable you to quickly and tool-less-ly route your displays’ power cables to pre-existing, standard-height outlets.

And route your HDMI cables to your components conveniently mounted within Video Meeting Kit.

Click on the video below to learn more

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Creating Meeting Equity for Hybrid Work With Smart Gallery on DTEN D7

By DTEN

The switch to working from home has educated all of us in how effective Zoom video meetings can be in sustaining creativity and productivity across hybrid teams. It provided a way for us to see, hear and interact with each other.

However, the hybrid work environment, with employees hosting meetings in office conference rooms while others attend from home, can complicate the meeting experience.

Today, hybrid work and hybrid learning are changing the game once again.

Now we will be working both in and out of the office. We will have full time remote colleagues as well as those using mobile workstations at the office 2-3 days a week.

So a new challenge presents itself: 1. How do we ensure every meeting participant, regardless of where they are, has an equal presence in the new hybrid office and hybrid classroom?

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2. How can we ensure that remote participants can connect and collaborate as effectively remotely as they would in person?

It is often difficult to see everyone in the room clearly, limiting our ability to catch social cues, facial expression or interpret body language that has become second nature in the new hybrid workspace.

The time for businesses to make the digital experience more equitable for all employees is here.

It begins with deploying the DTEN D7, a windows based device powered by Intel. The DTEN D7 provides advanced AI camera technology, intelligent audio and multi touch technology for effortless touch collaboration; all requirements for an immersive meeting experience.

It has never been easier to connect people and teams for effective, productive meetings. DTEN solutions

Smart Gallery to identify, resize and reframe in-room participants, even if they are sitting further away from the D7. are simple to use, reliable and easy to scale all-in-one devices. Enjoy vivid, lifelike video and crystal clear audio with DTEN solutions.

And that’s why we have worked closely with Zoom to ensure Smart Gallery, an innovative way to make your hybrid meetings more equitable for all, is available today on the DTEN D7.

What is Smart Gallery?

Available today on the DTEN D7, Smart Gallery is a Zoom Rooms feature that uses cutting-edge AI to create individual video feeds of in-room participants, giving remote participants a clearer view of their inroom counterparts.

Smart Gallery technology automatically optimizes the meeting experience for you by adapting to people entering or leaving the room, so there’s no need for someone to manage the room settings or constantly reposition the camera to capture everyone.

The DTEN D7’s professional camera array provides ample image clarity for

Participants at the end of a long conference table or side desk, for example, will be seen with crisp image fidelity*, regardless of physical proximity to the camera.

And when everyone has more equal representation in the meeting, participants can feel more confident to speak up, interact, and lead collaboration sessions, no matter where they join from.

Smart Gallery is available today on DTEN D7 series solutions. Find out more at DTEN.com.

* DTEN solutions provide a 1080p (Room) and 720p (Individual) vs. 720p (Room) and 360p (individual). Content sharing and video streaming performance may vary depending on available internet bandwidth and signal strength.

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Making Office Space Make Sense in a Remote World

By Logitech

While remote work becomes standard, many organizations continue to invest in office space, creating hybrid arrangements that include both inperson and virtual participants. Along with hybrid work has come the need to optimize office space for collaboration, requiring video conferencing technology that is thoughtful, userfriendly, and easy for IT to set up, deploy, scale, and maintain.

Ideally, the office is set up to keep employees in their flow, not pull them out of it In contrast, organizations have a hard time optimizing the office for collaboration using existing patchworks of technology that can be costly to install and maintain, and that often require specialized equipment and expertise. In these scenarios, IT and facilities teams are often left with a counterproductive combination of a high training, maintenance, and support burden mixed with low worker adoption.

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Removing Meeting Friction is the Goal Creating an environment that is conducive to collaboration begins outside the meeting room door.

Removing friction - meaning anything that interferes with employees’ ability to connect and be productive - is key. Examples of friction in the office include employees not being able to find the right meeting space for their needs at the right time, or struggling with complex conference room equipment.

Ideally, the office is set up to keep employees in their flow, not pull them out of it. Tools like scheduling panels can make a huge difference in this regard. At a glance, and without interruption, scheduling panels can: • Signal meeting room availability from a distance • Allow employees to find the right room for their needs at the right time

Inside every meeting room, every employee should be empowered to quickly and easily launch video collaboration sessions across platforms • Provide contextual information on-screen, such as the meeting name and time Making this kind of investment allows you to embed useful, real-time communication into the walls of the office, reducing friction with minimal upkeep.

Inside every meeting room, every employee (regardless of their technical knowledge or experience) should be empowered to quickly and easily

launch video collaboration sessions across platforms, from Microsoft Teams to Zoom, and others. Investing in intuitive touch controllers is one way to provide this kind of seamless, universal experience that reduces IT support requests and keeps employees in their flow.

Deliver Better, Equitable Meetings In the new world of work, we conduct more frequent meetings with more

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people across more boundaries than ever before. Remote participants having an unequal experience compared to inperson participants is another example of friction. High-quality meeting room systems have therefore become essential for access and inclusion.

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Optimizing the office for collaboration and hybrid work requires a combination of factors. It takes a comprehensive approach that considers the employee experience before, during, and after the meeting.

There are several must-haves in order to Furthermore, it emphasizes putting deliver better, equitable meetings that in-person and remote participants on equal footing. are easy and automatic: • Audio and video components are optimized to the size and layout of the space • In-person and remote attendees can see and be seen equally • In-person and remote attendees can hear and be heard equally • Remote attendees can fully participate in collaboration, such 38

The outcome is an empowered workforce and the ability for IT and facilities teams to go from reactive to proactive. It is an exciting opportunity for these teams to demonstrate their vision, add value to their organization, and let their expertise shine in changing times.

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LG CreateBoard™ Bringing People Together

LG’s TR3DJ whiteboard brings us together across platforms, regardless of the space

The TR3DJ interactive whiteboard provides a versatile display that allows everyone to leverage their platform of choice. Display, annotate and share content from a wide variety of sources.

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