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Meeting Room
Scenarios
Presentation
1 Environment
For presentation environments in the corporate world, there are multiple purposes that all
revolve around the dissemination of information to participants as effectively and as
interestingly as possible. The content can be anything from presentations about new
market trends or potential new business opportunities to presentations used for training
purposes and to deliver all kinds of professional knowledge. The key elements of success in this environment is
holding people’s attention in order to clearly communicate useful or original material. Presentation solutions
must therefore facilitate effective communication and this is usually achieved by focusing the presentation
around centralized visuals in a variety of formats. Presentations are likely to include an increasing amount of
multimedia content, so graphics and video–based presentations should be ideally be teamed with display
technology at the highest resolutions. Participants are also likely to need to share content from tablets, mobile
phones or laptops.
Challenges:
• Central display to focus and unite participants, such as a projection screen, TV, with supporting multimedia,
such as a Blu-ray player
• Requires high quality images
• Needs to supports of a variety of input sources
ATEN Suggested Solution:
HDMI Switch with VGA/DVI/DisplayPort to HDMI Converter
• Auto Switching, automatically detects and switches when source device is connected
• EDID Expert , selects optimum EDID settings for smooth power-up and highest quality display
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• Easy source selection through pushbuttons
• Multiple control methods: IR, RS232 and Ethernet
Video Conference
2 Environment
In a video conferencing environment, whether it involves connecting different meeting
rooms in the same building or multiple offices at various locations across the globe,
solutions need to enable all participants to feel connected, involved and ready to unite and
collaborate with partners and colleagues. Integrated A/V technologies are utilized in this environment for the
purposes of information exchange, problem solving, and risk control, and so solutions must facilitate effective
communication without delay, interference or lag. These kind of face-to-face group business reviews that
allow multiple participants to collaborate and to share inspiration and progress are an important backbone of
today’s corporate business model, and so expectations for video conferencing solutions are high. Fluidity and
communication are paramount, so support for setting up as video conference and maintaining multiple
simultaneous high resolution video displays in tandem with digital audio is an essential requirement. Interoperability
and seamless switching between multiple inputs is also paramount.
Challenges:
• Easy video conferencing set up
• Maintaining multiple simultaneous video feeds throughout the meeting
• Interoperability and seamless switching between multiple inputs
• Stable, clear audio/video signals
• High quality image requirement
ATEN Suggested Solution:
HDMI Matrix Switch with Control System
• Real-time seamless switching across multiple screens or a video wall
• Centralized control via a tablet and mobile computer, easily deployed
into an existing installation
• Camera tracking to facilitate remote discussion
• Audio Extraction – extracts and converts audio signals from HDMI input
Multifunction Meeting
3 Environment
A typical multifunction meeting environment is usually a combination of a presentation,
video conferencing, and corporate training environment, and therefore requires collaborative
multimedia technology that is optimized for both convenience and instant, flexible sharing between multiple
content sources. It will usually incorporate an A/V conferencing system to link participants for presentations and
discussions, share digital data streams, and include multiple display screens and video walls to present a variety
of multimedia, including high-resolution video and graphics. Considering the much larger scale of this kind of
meeting environment, high-end setups will often require support for long distances and an intuitive control
system that manages every aspect of the A/V solution, especially one that facilitates interoperability by giving
users a way to have all devices collaborate with each other as part of the wider BYOD trend. These kinds of
multifunction meeting environments are some of the most dynamic workspaces imaginable, and solutions needs
to be both flexible and scalable.
Challenges:
• Requires instant, flexible sharing between multiple content sources with collaborative technology
• Requires quick switching between different usage scenarios
• Large screen, video wall deployments make installation complicated
• Needs central environmental control
• Multifunction rooms require support for long distances with different interface input
ATEN Suggested Solution:
Modular Matrix Switch with Control System
• Centralized control through tablet and mobile computer; Ethernet based control easily deployed into existing
installation
• Various expansion boxes are available, providing flexibility and scalability when you need it
• HDBaseT technology provides simple and cost effective solution for long distance signal transmission with 4K
resolutions up to 100 meters
• Easy video wall setup and integration with Scaler
• Modular switch design with hot-pluggable modules enhances stability and minimizes maintenance costs
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