At ISE 2026, Jabra delivered a clear message to enterprise IT leaders: we have solutions for all your communications needs.
The company used its ISE presence to reinforce a broader shift. From personal collaboration devices to a scalable room portfolio that now stretches from individual users to large conference spaces. Strategically, it represents something larger: platform expansion without added complexity.
For IT decision-makers managing hybrid environments across dozens or hundreds of rooms, that positioning matters.
Evolve3: Enterprise Headsets with AI-Driven Voice Isolation
On the personal side, Jabra introduced its new Evolve3 series, including the Evolve3 85 and Evolve3 75 models. The headline feature is a boomless design powered by a deep neural network trained on more than 60 million voice samples. You can watch a video of it here.
Unlike traditional headsets that rely on a physical boom mic, Evolve3 uses AI-driven voice isolation to identify and lock onto the primary speaker. In demonstrations at ISE, Jabra placed users inside a noisy booth environment while nearby voices spoke at close proximity. The headset isolated the intended speaker while suppressing surrounding conversation.
The implication is straightforward: consistent call quality without user training.
Additional enterprise-focused considerations include:
- Replaceable batteries to extend lifecycle and support sustainability goals
- Fast charging, delivering roughly one hour of usage per minute of charge
- Microsoft Teams and Zoom certification
The design shift toward a slimmer, more consumer-forward profile also reflects an important hybrid reality. Employees are moving between corporate offices, airports, home offices, and shared spaces. Devices must perform at enterprise levels without looking like call-center hardware.
This is where Jabra’s hearing-technology heritage through its parent company, GN Group, becomes relevant. The AI foundation powering ClearVoice originated in GN’s hearing division, bringing medically influenced voice modeling into enterprise UC hardware.
For IT leaders standardizing on a single headset platform, the Evolve3 is less about incremental improvement and more about lifecycle and reliability management.
PanaCast 55: From Medium Room to Modular Large Room
The bigger story at ISE was room scale.
Jabra expanded its PanaCast lineup with the PanaCast 55, a revision of its medium-room PanaCast 50 VBS designed to support modular expansion .
Historically, Jabra focused on small and medium rooms. Large-room deployments often required a different vendor or more complex DSP-based systems. That gap created friction for IT teams trying to standardize.
The PanaCast 55 closes that gap without introducing programming complexity.
Modular Audio Expansion
Jabra introduced a new “Speaker Mic” extension device that combines microphones and speakers in a single unit . Unlike traditional extension microphones that only improve pickup, this unit also distributes far-end audio down the table.
Key technical elements include:
- Structured cabling (Cat6) for up to 30 meters of reach
- Power delivered over USB-C from the video bar
- Automatic self-calibration to prevent feedback or echo
For IT, the value proposition is simplicity. There is no external DSP programming layer, no advanced commissioning process, and no ongoing audio tuning requirements. The system self-calibrates at boot .
That simplicity reduces support overhead over the lifecycle of the room.
Multi-Camera Video with Huddly Partnership
For video scaling, Jabra partnered with Huddly to integrate Huddly Crew cameras into the system .
Organizations can deploy one, three, or five cameras depending on room size . The cameras automatically discover and calibrate themselves , eliminating manual configuration.
In active speaker mode, the system composites the Huddly close-up feed with a wide 180-degree PanaCast view as picture-in-picture . That maintains room context while delivering focused speaker framing.
The deeper strategic shift, however, is platform control.
Jabra rebrands the Huddly units as Jabra Crew Cam devices and manages them directly within Jabra Plus, its cloud-based management platform . Firmware updates and device monitoring occur within a single management environment.
For IT teams already juggling multiple control dashboards, consolidating device management reduces operational sprawl.
Android in the Large Room
Perhaps the most significant architectural move is operating system choice.
The PanaCast 55 runs on Android using Microsoft’s Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) . Android has been common in smaller rooms, but large-room multi-camera systems have traditionally leaned Windows-based due to flexibility and ecosystem maturity. By bringing Android into larger, scalable deployments, Jabra is betting on simplicity over customization.
For enterprise IT leaders, that trade-off often makes sense. Android-based room systems generally offer:
- Reduced patching complexity
- Simplified management
- Lower long-term support burden
Combined with self-calibrating audio and auto-discovered cameras, the result is a large-room system that behaves more like a managed appliance than a traditional AV install.
From Device Vendor to Platform Provider
ISE 2026 marked a shift for Jabra. The company that built its reputation on headsets is now furthering their collaboration ecosystem spanning personal devices, medium rooms, and scalable large-room deployments.
For enterprise IT decision-makers, the value proposition is consistency:
- Unified management through Jabra Plus
- Modular expansion without DSP programming
- AI-driven personal devices built on hearing-technology foundations
- Android-based room systems aligned with Microsoft Teams and Zoom
In hybrid enterprise environments, scale and supportability matter more than feature density.
At ISE 2026, Jabra positioned itself not as a peripheral vendor, but as a collaboration platform provider.
To see all of AVNation’s ISE 2026 coverage, visit our dedicated page.
Tim Albright is the founder of AVNation and is the driving force behind the AVNation network. He carries the InfoComm CTS, a B.S. from Greenville College and is pursuing an M.S. in Mass Communications from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. When not steering the AVNation ship, Tim has spent his career designing systems for churches both large and small, Fortune 500 companies, and education facilities.
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