Expanding Meeting Room Capabilities with Logitech's Collaboration Partners
Logitech’s expansive meeting room portfolio is designed to match rooms of all sizes with powerful devices and software that fine-tune meeting experiences. These solutions deliver features that elevate meeting equity and facilitate productive communication.
Products like Rally Bar, Rally Mic Pods, Sight, and more help keep both in-room and remote meeting participants engaged in hybrid meetings. Logitech’s comprehensive conference room portfolio of products are designed for rooms of all sizes and functionality, and these flexible and versatile meeting room offerings are the reason so many organizations around the world choose Logitech hardware for their video conferencing spaces. As collaboration needs evolve and those customers are looking to add functionality to their meeting rooms, the Logitech Collaboration Program (LCP) partners with leading manufacturers and allows organizations to do even more with their meeting spaces.
Adding solutions from Logitech’s hardware partners can help IT managers and meeting room decision-makers avoid compatibility headaches and confidently deploy advanced meeting room solutions. LCP partnerships involve rigorous dual certification processes, guaranteeing that Logitech devices and peripherals work flawlessly with partner solutions and create a truly unified ecosystem.
Let's explore three key LCP partnerships that can significantly enhance larger spaces such as boardrooms, divisible conference areas, and seminar rooms.
Wireless Sharing for Added Flexibility
During meetings in rooms with bring-your-own device (BYOD) functionality, presenters often need to project their laptop screens to an in-room display. In larger rooms like executive boardrooms and classrooms, the ability to do so wirelessly provides the necessary flexibility to accommodate presenters regardless of where they’re sitting.
That’s why Logitech partners with Barco and the ClickShare family of wireless sharing devices that eliminate the need for a wired connection between laptop and displays. The presenter connects the wireless USB transmitter to start sharing, simplifying the BYOD meeting room experience.
Barco ClickShare CX-50 Gen 2 adds bring-your-own-meeting (BYOM) functionality to native Microsoft Teams or Zoom Rooms, enabling BYOM mode alongside native room mode. Logitech Rally Bar will automatically switch from the native room app to a BYOM mode for wireless meeting control via the presenter’s laptop.
Demonstrating how Logitech partners with other meeting room hardware manufacturers, this wireless meeting control and switching from native room mode to BYOM mode is a feature Logitech and Barco collaborated on directly.
Enhanced Audio with Wireless Microphones
In larger spaces where a presenter needs to be mobile and have the ability to walk around a stage or where tabletop microphones need to be more mobile, wireless microphones are the answer. The Shure family of audio solutions offers wireless microphones providing crystal-clear sound with increased mobility. This includes MXW NEXT 2 wireless microphones for front of room presentations and the MXW8 wireless desktop base to use Shure's gooseneck mics at the conference table.
Living within the Shure Microflex Ecosystem, these options are the perfect option for larger spaces, bringing advanced mobility to bigger meeting rooms, all-hands spaces, lecture halls, hybrid classrooms, and auditoriums.
Microflex Ecosystem microphones leverage Shure IntelliMix DSP technology, allowing for a direct connection to a room PC or Rally Bar/Rally Bar Mini via USB. With IntelliMix, IT teams can easily add wireless microphones along with a host of other options from Shure.
In addition to Shure being a verified partner with Logitech through the LCP, Shure’s Microflex products are also certified with Microsoft Teams and Zoom, giving IT professionals peace of mind that their meeting room technology will work seamlessly together.
Optimizing Divisible Spaces for Maximum Versatility
To cater to a variety of functions, large meeting spaces should be designed with adaptability in mind, allowing for flexible layouts and configurations depending on the type and size of the meeting.
For such scenarios, Logitech partners with Q-SYS to deliver a comprehensive audio and video solution. This integrated system can be used as a whole for the entire space or automatically split when partitions are deployed either manually or digitally, creating seamless audio and video experiences in the smaller rooms.
With Q-SYS systems, large spaces can be effortlessly divided into two or three sections, each equipped with independent audio and video capabilities. This versatility extends to combining one or more spaces together. This is ideal for scenarios such as all-hands meeting spaces, large training spaces, and maximizing existing office space while still offering flexibility in room sizes and layouts.
A Symphony of Collaboration
Logitech's commitment to collaboration goes beyond offering robust individual solutions. Through the LCP, Logitech forges strategic partnerships that expand the possibilities of any meeting space. With Barco, Shure, and Q-SYS as prime examples, the Logitech Collaboration Program ensures seamless integration, enhanced functionality, and a wider range of options to craft the perfect collaboration environment. View our full list of LCP partners.