Description
Cisco Webex Room 55 overview
Cisco Webex™ Room 55 combines an unmatched video and audio experience with a sophisticated, Red Dot–awarded design to create a compelling team collaboration system.
The Room 55, which includes camera, codec, display, speaker system, and microphones integrated in a single device, is optimized for rooms that seat up to seven people. It is an all-in-one, integrated system that’s easy to install, use, deploy, and manage. It’s crafted with high-quality components: professional 4K display for longevity and minimal latency, powerful digital zoom camera for discreet tracking, sophisticated speaker system and amplifier to deliver rich sound, and a light industrial design that combines aluminum and fabric for a sustainable and humanizing effect.
The Cisco Webex Room 55 has the Cisco Webex Room Kit as its base technology, bringing new capabilities such as speaker tracking, best overview, automatic wake-up, and people count to enable even smarter meetings, smarter presentation capabilities, and smarter room and device integrations. These features and functionalities further remove the barriers to usage and deployment of video in small- to medium-sized meeting rooms. The Room 55 is rich in functionality and experience but is priced and designed to be easily scalable to all of your meeting rooms and spaces, whether registered on-premises or to Cisco Webex.Cisco Webex Room 55 features and benefits
Table 1 summarizes Cisco Webex Room 55 features and benefits.
Features and benefits
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Award-winning design |
● Light, sophisticated industrial design is recipient of 2017 Red Dot award for innovation in design
● Camera innovation: Powerful 5K UltraHD camera and wide-angle lens cover everyone in the room
● Sound innovation
◦ Stereo speakers with dedicated center speaker for optimal voice pick-up
◦ Built-in amplifier to deliver rich sound
◦ Speakers above screen for more equal room coverage
● Screen innovation: 4K professional-grade screen
● Design innovation
◦ Fabric front for natural and inviting feel
◦ Aluminium frame for lightness in design and sustainability
◦ Increased height over previous generation to accommodate taller tables (10 cm/4 inches taller than MX300)
● Highly reliable as components and software are designed to work together
● Designed to minimize latency and echo
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Smart meetings |
● Brings intelligent views to smaller rooms with discreet, integrated camera
◦ Best overview: Automatically detects meeting participants and provides ideal framing
◦ Speaker tracking: Detects and switches between active speakers and provides ideal framing
● Great audio experience with integrated microphones, speakers, and amplifier; supports room elegance with no wires or microphones on the table
● Automatic noise suppression reduces disruptive sounds coming from the meeting room (e.g., typing, paper rustling)
● Simplified meeting-join experience with One Button To Push (OBTP) for scheduled devices in a Cisco Webex Meetings or Webex Teams meetings, whether registered on-prem or to Cisco Webex
● Automatic wake-up: System “wakes up” when someone walks into the room and suggests activities for fast and easy meeting start
● Easily controlled by the Cisco Touch 10 control unit (Touch 10) or with a Cisco Proximity or the Cisco Webex Teams app
● End-to-end security
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Smart presentations |
● Supports dual screens for video and content
● Supports dual content sources for local meetings
● View white board content and annotations shared from Cisco Webex Board, Cisco Webex DX80, or Cisco Webex Teams app; participate in white boarding sessions through Cisco Webex Teams app *
● 4K content sharing (local 30 fps, remote 5 fps)
● Wired or wireless content sharing (only two wires required: power and HDMI)
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Smart rooms |
● Metrics: Counts people in the room, enabling analytics for better resource planning
● Supports Wi-Fi
● In-room control: Controls peripherals such as lights and blinds through the Touch 10
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Built for cloud and premises |
● Flexibility to register on-premises or to the cloud through Cisco Webex
● Hardware is optimized to run on a cloud platform for great experiences in shared rooms and spaces, with easy access to hosted conferences
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Cisco Webex Room 55 prominent features/differentiators
Bringing more intelligence to small and medium-sized rooms
The Cisco Webex Room 55 offers video innovation encased in a beautifully designed frame, bringing more sophistication, intelligence, and usability to your small-to-medium team collaboration rooms. While others are still struggling to offer advanced features such as speaker tracking, wireless sharing, and 4K content in their high-end products, Cisco is already bringing these innovations to meeting rooms of all sizes in a cost-effective and simple way. With the Room 55, Cisco is helping customers experience smarter meetings, enable smarter presentations, and create smarter room and device integrations. These features were previously the domain of higher-end video conferencing rooms, but can now be brought to every room and every team. When registered to Cisco Webex, additional functionalities enhance the user experience and team workflow and further simplify deployment:
- Smart meetings: Powerful, integrated cameras deliver intelligent view capabilities, such as automatic framing and speaker tracking; automatic noise suppression reduces meeting disruptions
- Smart presentations: Dual screens, dual content sources, wireless sharing, and 4K content make for great presentations
- Smart rooms: People count for usage metrics and resource allocation; tight integrations with screens to enhance user interactions; APIs and macros allow meeting personalization
- Registration flexibility: Built for both cloud and on-premises deployment, protecting your investment.
