Brief

Introduction

Until recently, the conference room was typically a meeting space with a

whiteboard and maybe a speakerphone and a projector/display. Today, technology

is changing the collaborative potential of group meeting spaces. Nowhere is this

more evident than in small and medium conference rooms.

As with any disruptive change, however welcome, challenges abound. Amid a

dazzling range of video clients (think WebEx®, Microsoft® Lync™, Skype™, Google

Hangouts™, Cisco Jabber™, Vidyo®, GoToMeeting®, etc.) and BYOD hardware, IT is

increasingly tasked to provide a standard, cost-eective toolset to support the

collaborative and creative potential of the enterprise.

The Evolving Conference Room

For most companies, small and medium conference rooms are now the fastest

growing collaboration spaces. According to Wainhouse Research

, the number

of small and medium conference rooms will increase at a much faster pace (48%,

41%) than large rooms (27%).

Yet provisioning small and medium conference rooms with videoconferencing

technology has, until recently, been very expensive. Wainhouse Research reports

that organizations tend to budget to equip larger conference rooms and ignore

smaller rooms: this leaves collaboration success vulnerable to whatever devices

the participants happen to bring with them.

Informal solutions, such as the combination of a laptop, webcam, and

speakerphone, are lling the gap in many cases but are dicult to manage and

support. Such workarounds often fail to produce a professional, consistent

experience and can be cumbersome as meeting participants scramble to join calls

individually.

How Intel®, Logitech®, and Bsquare Together Simplify Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing for

Small and Medium Rooms

Industry Brief

Intel® NUC with vPro™ technology

Flexible Videoconference Solution

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Industry Brief Intel® NUC with vPro™ technology Flexible Videoconference Solution Videoconferencing for Small and Medium Rooms How Intel®, Logitech®, and Bsquare Together Simplify Videoconferencing Introduction Until recently, the conference room was typically a meeting space with a whiteboard and maybe a speakerphone and a projector/display. Today, technology is changing the collaborative potential of group meeting spaces. Nowhere is this more evident than in small and medium conference rooms.
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Effortless, Clear Communication A Predictable Usage Model per second video with high-quality full- duplex speakerphone clarity for business-grade video conferencing.
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This combination of HW and SW is a uniquely integrated conference roombased collaboration solution offering the flexibility to switch between UC clients at will, especially since most companies use multiple collaboration clients today. With essentially no learning curve, it allows employees to use the same familiar desktop UC environment in the conference room. The solution provides a flexible technology standard which supports multiple UC clients with minimal support/management from IT.
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Conclusion Enterprise-quality videoconferencing is no longer the exclusive domain of expensive telepresence systems in large conference rooms. This fact coincides with the irreversible rise of small and medium-sized conference rooms as noted above.