Poly CX5500 HD RoundTable

The CX5500 offers remote participants a video view of the active speaker with 1080p HD, automatically monitoring the flow of calls. It also provides a unique 360° panoramic view of the conference room. Meetings become more productive, and attendees can be heard clearly thanks to Polycom's legendary HD Voice technology, which offers a dynamic audio range from 160 Hz to 22,000 Hz. The CX5500 can also be used as an IP conference phone for audio-only calls.

The challenge for IT is to make video meetings in conference rooms more effective, reduce the number of calls to video support, and minimize the need for white glove support services for video applications. Are users in your videoconference rooms distracted by video or audio quality problems? Do you find it difficult to see or recognize the speaker? Do you have a problem panning the camera to draw attention to the active speaker? Are they frustrated because they already have to cope with a new user interface? Solve these problems, and you will see that video conference rooms are being used more often. When rooms are better utilized, the benefits of video collaboration are fully realized, achieving a return on your investment.

Features include a 360° USB camera with 1080 px resolution, SIP conference phone operation via Lync or IP PBX, active speaker detection, video stream output in panorama view, a microphone range of 6m, HD voice wideband, and optimization for use with Microsoft Lync 2013 and Lync video room systems, along with a USB 3.0 port.

Advantages:
Improved communication through automatic display of the active speaker in true HD quality and monitoring of the flow of calls; integration of all participants through the 360° panoramic view of the conference room; lower training costs thanks to a simple USB plug and play function that requires little or no training; lower support costs and achieving a better ROI with increased room utilization for collaboration.