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  • Kramer’s Expanded Series 3: A New Era of Unified AV Distribution and Connectivity

    Kramer’s Expanded Series 3: A New Era of Unified AV Distribution and Connectivity

    Kramer, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, offers innovative audio-visual solutions for communication, collaboration, and control, aiming to create engaging, inclusive, and connected experiences in the increasingly hybrid world.

    Kramer expands its innovative Series 3 product line, offering interoperable, connected, and simplified AV signal management solutions, setting a new standard in AV integration.

    Kramer introduces its Series 3 product line, aiming to revolutionize AV signal management with high-performance experiences, uncompressed 4K60 4:4:4 video, zero latency, and advanced connectivity features. The series focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and scalability, offering interoperable, secure solutions for complete AV solutions.

    Kramer the leading audio-visual experiences company is proud to announce the expansion of its innovative Series 3 product line, setting a new standard in the AV signal management domain. Series 3 shows Kramer’s commitment to providing end-to-end solutions that are fully interoperable and connected, offering unprecedented simplicity, flexibility, and scalability in AV integration.

    High-Performance AV, Unified Distribution, and Comprehensive Connectivity with Series 3

    Kramer’s Series 3 represents the essence of high-performance audio-visual experiences, offering premium quality with uncompressed 4K60 4:4:4 video, zero latency, and advanced connectivity features like fast switching, single-cable extension, and USB-C interfaces. Designed to support the most advanced collaboration devices and demanding use cases, Series 3 ensures top-notch AV signal processing in any setting.

    This innovation extends beyond individual products to include a comprehensive approach to AV distribution. Our series-based strategy simplifies the design, configuration, and secure management of complete AV solutions. Series 3 integrates multiple product lines, forming a unified foundation for any deployment scenario, ensuring a singular, seamless user experience.

    Furthermore, Series 3 provides full coverage of all AV connectivity protocols, offering compatibility with a wide range of signal management products. This extensive support spans from legacy to advanced protocols, facilitating effortless integration with any preferred collaboration devices. With Series 3, Kramer not only sets a new standard in AV signal management but also ensures solutions that are adaptable and future-ready, meeting the evolving needs of technology and users.

    “With Series 3, we are not just launching a product line, but we are redefining the AV signal management approach. This series is a testament to Kramer’s commitment to continual innovation. As we look ahead, we are excited to keep expanding our offerings, adding more products and solutions to this domain. Our goal is to empower our customers with simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency, ensuring they stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital world.” says Yishai Mescheloff, VP AVSM and Connect .

     Product Highlights:

    Matrices: Modular, Fixed, and All-in-One Matrices form the core of modern AV systems, offering versatility in professional AV installations. They address all aspects of high-performance signal distribution, switching, processing, including scaling, audio mixing, and integrated control interfaces for remote management.

    Switchers: Our multi-format Series 3 Switchers optimize connectivity for presentations, live events, or home entertainment, providing versatile switching between different sources for a top-tier user experience.

    Extenders: Series 3 Extenders take audio, visual, and control signals further while preserving their full quality and strength, ensuring flawless signal delivery across diverse environments.

    Distribution Amplifiers: These high-performance amplifiers ensure that audio and video content reach every screen, speaker, and device in your network with high precision and clarity.

    Video Processors: Streamline the deployment of multi-view displays and videowalls with cost-effective Series 3 Video Processors, reducing the need for multiple units and complex network infrastructures.

     

     

  • Unleash the Potential of Virtual Collaboration with RTI’s Meeting Ecosystem

    Unleash the Potential of Virtual Collaboration with RTI’s Meeting Ecosystem

    Day 1 at ISE 2024 and we chat with AV industry presenters and exhibitors. Tim Albright of AVNation explores the future of meetings with Bill Hensley from RTI at ISE 2024! Unveiling the “Intelligent Meetings” ecosystem, RTI revolutionizes conferencing and collaboration. From AI cameras for auto-tracking to smart microphones and easy connectivity, RTI’s solution transforms every meeting into an in-person experience.

    Whether in huddle spaces or large conference rooms, RTI’s system integrates seamlessly with the RTI control system or can be used standalone. The user-friendly interface, privacy features, and flexible controls make “Intelligent Meetings” an advanced.

    Bill Hensley also highlights RTI’s new touch panels, remotes, and versatile audio products showcased at ISE. For a deeper dive into RTI’s innovations, visit rticontrol.com. Don’t miss exclusive ISE 2024 coverage on aviation.tv.

  • Now Shipping – Powerful 4K Collaboration and Presentation Switcher with USB-C

    Now Shipping – Powerful 4K Collaboration and Presentation Switcher with USB-C

    Extron’s AV solutions enhance the experiences with advanced technologies, improved images, sound quality, and reliable systems, while offering asset management tools for efficient management of large AV systems.

    Extron has officially commenced shipping the UCS 303, a robust collaboration and presentation switcher meticulously crafted to cater to the distinctive requirements of Unified Communications (UC) meeting spaces.

    UCS 303 is a robust collaboration switcher for UC meeting spaces, featuring three inputs supporting USB, HDMI, and DisplayPort sources, along with five USB device ports. The switcher streamlines integration of AV sources and USB cameras into Teams or Zoom meetings, prioritizing user experience with auto-switching and intuitive controls.

    Extron is pleased to announce that the UCS 303, a powerful collaboration and presentation switcher designed to meet the unique needs of UC meeting spaces, is now shipping. The UCS 303 includes three inputs to support connection of USB, HDMI, and DisplayPort sources, as well as five USB device ports that connect to peripherals such as USB cameras and microphones. The USB-C input provides video/audio, USB data, and 60W of power to charge a user’s laptop computer. With the UCS 303, meeting spaces can integrate a room’s USB cameras and microphones with users’ portable laptops into Teams or Zoom meetings.

    “With the ever-increasing need for on-the-go collaborative spaces that help people meet, share information, and connect, we are always looking for innovative ways to help our customers streamline the installation and maintenance of UC meeting rooms,” says Casey Hall, Chief Marketing Officer for Extron. “The UCS 303 4K Collaboration and Presentation Switcher makes it easy to integrate AV sources and USB cameras into UC Teams and Zoom meetings, while providing features that offer greater flexibility, convenience, and a more intuitive user experience.”

    The UCS 303 offers intuitive collaboration with auto switching, which can prioritize inputs, providing natural switching and minimal user interaction with AV hardware. Small huddle spaces will benefit from UCS 303 support of TeamWork Show Me cables and retractors, which places control at users’ fingertips. The UCS 303 makes it easy to integrate AV sources and USB cameras for Teams and Zoom meetings, into huddle, meeting, and collaboration spaces.

     

  • Humly Shifts Space Booking Strategy into High Gear for Boston Business

    Humly Shifts Space Booking Strategy into High Gear for Boston Business

    Humly’s premium hardware solutions for the modern workplace are now prominently visible throughout all five floors of The Engine, a Boston-based enterprise that provides a professional business environment for technology innovators throughout the region. That visibility has provided immediate value for the technology innovators and facility managers that now know the precise status of nearly every private gathering space in the building, thanks to the color-coded Humly Room Display panels mounted outside their doorways.

    The Engine Accelerator completed the rollout of its new Humly Room Display network in September, installing more than 50 Humly Room Display panels outside meeting spaces of all sizes, from large board and conference rooms down to small focus rooms and labs. The six-time award winning Humly Room Display panels interface with The Engine’s existing Nexudus software booking system, ensuring that all bookings automatically synchronize with corresponding Humly Room Display panels. The result is a simple and streamlined space booking ecosystem that populates current meeting details and booking status on each panel throughout the facility.

    The Engine Accelerator bills itself as “a home for tough tech” and plays an important role in helping its technology residents translate breakthrough research into “world-changing” technologies through the convergence of science and engineering. The facility is a core component of The Engine Accelerator’s ecosystem, offering participants a unique combination of space, programs, and resources along with a collaborative tech community.

    “Our main objective is bringing top tech founders together and putting them into a system where they can freely collaborate with each other,” said Nana Kusi Minka, Community Operations Associate for The Engine Accelerator. “Our facility has resources for chem-based, bio-based and engineering-based businesses, and being able to have all of these resources in place and supplement them with programming and networking elements allows our technology residents to get the most out of our facility.”

    With an active community of innovators moving throughout the facility each business day, places to meet, gather and collaborate often come at a premium. “The Engine is a very fast-paced environment with a lot of movement, and people here need a system that can manage and track all of the activity throughout the building,” said Kusi Minka. “Our Nexudus software has been exceptional, allowing our residents to easily book spaces from their laptops and personal devices through a front end portal. Less exceptional were the previous meeting room display panels at each door, which had no direct integration to Nexudus. That often led to confusion as to whether a room was free or booked.”

    The Humly Room Display panels have solved that problem. Each panel displays the room number and meeting duration along with green (open) and red (booked) bezel lighting and type that are visible from a distance, eliminating any confusion as to whether a room is available or not. Since Humly Room Display constantly speaks to Nexudus over The Engine’s local-area and WiFi networks, residents can now book an open room on the spot with the assurance they won’t interrupt an important meeting or be interrupted once theirs is underway.

    Kusi Minka adds that the Humly Room Display panels was easy to install, with in-house IT staff managing all panel installation and LAN/WiFi network connections. He also shares that the on-display presentation of Humly adds a touch of class to the visual atmosphere. “Humly adds to the brand of our office,” he concluded. “As we create more meeting spaces, the expectation is that Humly’s presence will continue to spread throughout the facility.”