![]() ![]() We did this backwards, giving you our “What we Think” as a teaser. The next tier meeting room service shuffle for rooms is well underway between BlueJeans, Lifesize, ] Pexip [, Star L eaf, Fuze, and GoTo as the major players. One wonders if Cisco Webex would be on this list were it endpoint agnostic. ![]() Witness the new service-specific endpoint offerings / bundles from HP, Lenovo, Logitech, Poly, Crestron, Yealink, and others. The announcements at this show remove all doubt that Microsoft and Zoom are the key meeting services providers for independent suppliers of meeting room endpoints to target. Our last two surveys of IT decision makers and end users, respectively, identified that wireless connectivity and privacy of data and content are the top two areas in which users would like to see improvements from display makers and collaboration services vendors.ĥ. Progress is being made in figuring out how to give users access to their content in shared spaces – DisplayNote’s Launcher is just one representative of that. Hopefully you Hub 2 fanboys and fangirls can be on the lookout for trailers hauling Hub 2 units in the coming months (if Microsoft can keep its promises).Ĥ. Hub 2 units are this year’s Tesla Model 3, which this time last year had fanboys exclaiming “I saw one in the wild” as Elon’s celebrated electric vehicle started hitting significant production volumes. ![]() ![]() Yes, there were a few overheard jokes along the lines of “20 of these exist in the world, and they’re all in that booth over there.” But it’s a sign of the anticipation for interactive display boards felt by masses of IT and AV channels as well as enterprise buyers these days (especially boards that users will “get” because of the Windows 10 paradigm) – so let’s keep a sense of humor about it. Pardon the pun, but the “flip” side of the equation is Redmond: the entire Microsoft booth consisted of Surface Hub 2 units “in the flesh,” as if someone was after a “shock and awe” effect. Samsung’s Webex Flip Board and Webex-Room Kit Mini bundle are examples of this.ģ. But vendors like Elo, Optoma, Sony, and Samsung increasingly see there is gold in them thar hills (with the expectation that conference rooms are becoming a new type of volume market) and thus are seeking partnerships and trying to figure out how to play in this new interactive world of the conference room and classroom. Yes, wireless presentation systems have been finding a foothold with display makers for some time. Others like Prysm and InFocus have come and gone (ok not all gone, but that’s another story or two). Sure, display makers like Avocor, BenQ, Newline, Dell and others have been “woke” for some time now. The display and signage makers, especially digital signage and Wall crowd, are getting “hep” to UC. Two years ago, the ecosystem was far more pedestrian.Ģ. A quick eyeball of Avocor partnerships lists Lenovo, Huddly, Microsoft, T1V, Zoom, Logitech, Crestron, and UC Workspace. Audio device manufacturers with endpoint manufacturers. Everybody is partnering more than ever before. Partnerships ‘r us and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the strange bedfellows we all keep means vendors partner in one corner, duke it out in the other. We came away from InfoComm with five key takes:ġ. ![]()
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