On Workplace 3.X: AMX HARMAN Professional Solutions

Blake Jackson, Senior Director of North America Sales at AMX HARMAN Professional Solutions
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AVT Question: Please share insight and best practices for ensuring meeting equity for all employees and how to deliver the best collaboration experience regardless of location.

Thought Leader: Blake Jackson, Senior Director of North America Sales at AMX HARMAN Professional Solutions

The complexity of the technologies employed in enterprise meeting spaces has multiplied greatly in recent years. Software-based codecs, calendaring systems, and collaboration apps are all key parts of today’s mobile workforce. Developing ways to integrate these software technologies, as well as more traditional AV technologies, into a solution that is simple to operate is our mission at AMX. In the past few months, we’ve released two lines of products with unique features that benefit these spaces.

Software-based codecs, calendaring systems, and collaboration apps are all key parts of today’s mobile workforce." —Blake Jackson, Senior Director of North America Sales at AMX HARMAN Professional Solutions

Varia is a line of touch panels that can adapt to the specific needs of an environment with app personas. Whether you need a custom UX for custom integrations; want a beautiful-looking, professional-grade appliance to access a web-server-based control dashboard; or require a dedicated appliance to run a UC app, Varia personas can provide that functionality. And, as the requirements of a space evolve, Varia can evolve with them. Varia is designed to allow quick app updates and to be easily upgraded to ensure that the personas stay up to date with the latest security and technology updates.

Our N2600 line of AVoIP encoders and decoders are not only cost-effective devices that provide high-fidelity 4K video; they’re packed with enterprise-grade technologies and features designed specifically to benefit a mobile workforce. In today’s flexible meeting spaces, where bring-your-own-meeting capabilities are becoming the norm, the full-bandwidth USB 2.0 transport and switching of N2600 allows room cameras, microphones, and conferencing soundbars to connect with the user’s laptop. The multi-codec, dual-streaming capabilities of N2600 allow a single encoder to stream extremely high-quality video locally while simultaneously streaming H.264 video to remote participants over the internet.

Our DNA has always driven us to observe human behavior and find creative approaches to improve and simplify the way people interact with technology and each other. We’re excited to break more tethers, free more people from their tech, and help improve people’s business.

Cindy Davis
Brand and content director of AV Technology

Cindy Davis is the brand and content director of AV Technology (AVT). She was a critical member of the AVT editorial team when the title won the “Best Media Brand” laurel in the 2018 SIIA Jesse H. Neal Awards. Davis moderates several monthly AV/IT roundtables and enjoys facilitating and engaging in deeper conversations about the complex topics shaping the ever-evolving AV/IT industry. She explores the ethos of collaboration, hybrid workplaces, experiential spaces, and artificial intelligence to share with readers. Previously, she developed the TechDecisions brand of content sites for EH Publishing, named one of the “10 Great Business Media Websites” by B2B Media Business magazine. For more than 25 years, Davis has developed and delivered multiplatform content for AV/IT B2B and consumer electronics B2C publications, associations, and companies. A lifelong New Englander, Davis makes time for coastal hikes with her husband, Gary, and their Vizsla rescue, Dixie, sailing on one of Gloucester’s great schooners and sampling local IPAs. Connect with her on LinkedIn