going out of the room in which it is installed is at its
est
rom an au
io
e
ity stan
point.
Pemberton outlined TeamConnect’s abilities in this
situation.
“The TeamConnect SL mic cable allows mobile-to
mobile communication and makes use of the AEC,” he
said.
“In addition, we can apply separate processing
to deal with EQ and dynamic differences, and by
integrating mobile device connection it
rovides
re
un
ancy w
en a
e
se
ai
s.”
Now that videoconferencing has moved beyond
dedicated UC systems bought and installed in a
sma
num
er o
purpose
ui
t areas,
ess t
oug
t
is sometimes given to the acoustics of areas where
videoconferencing goes on. Any audio
eri
heral or
supporting system must a
so
e a
e to cater
or t
e
fl exible nature of UC systems that can be deployed
easily, including different sizes of rooms and varying
numbers of participants.
“T
e UC 500 an
UC 1000
ave
our microp
ones
for a 20ft of pickup,” Root explained.
“Th
1
i
i
n
l
x
n
i
n
microphones, you can now cover a 20x34 sized
room. T
e AEC
as t
e a
i
ity to
etect t
e size o
t
e
room or stated another way the reverb of the space.
T
e a
gorit
m
ynamica
y a
justs
or t
e room size
so you will never have echo issues. Other products
that do not do this exhibit a sound after the remote
person speaks, it has been described as a “barking dog”
sound.
Pemberton said that TeamConnect uses a variable
‘noise reduction’ algorithm to assist in this situation.
“It a
so uses a
vance
gating, EQ,
eve
an
AEC methods, to help deal with these issues. Most
im
ortantly, the Sennheiser S
eechLine series
microp
ones
ave
een optimise
or in an
on ta
e
meeting room applications and therefore are focused
on s
eech intelligibility.”
TeamConnect can
an
e eig
t microp
ones wit
AEC for up to 16 people. If ADN-W is integrated this
can be u
ed to hundreds of mics.
Biamp’s O’Conner explained that ideally acoustic
pro
ems s
ou
e so
ve
acoustica
y.
“Asking the audio system to solve bad acoustics is a
bit like asking an artist to
aint with
oorly
igmented
paints,” he said
T
ere are
imits to w
at can
e ma
e up
or
with the electronics. That being said, Tesira does
provi
e en
ancement
or noise re
uction,
high pass fi ltering, automixing, equalisation,
speech detection and various other innovations
that can combat a number of acoustic challenges
and problems.”
Our Tesira platform is highly scalable up to sizes that
are likely far beyond ty
ical for videoconferencing.”
es
top-
ase
UC is
ere to stay. Going into t
e
future, Root predicts the market for peripherals
targeting audio
uality will continue to evolve and
t
rive.
We will continue to see more and more devices that
are targeting the PC-based architectures,” he said.
We wi
see more B
ueToot
in t
ese systems too so
you don’t have to use wires to connect up and cameras
with USB interfaces on them.
Some of the new Wi-Fi standards are coming out
wit
super-
ig
requency 60GH – t
at wi
ena
e
connectivity within the room of all the peripherals
using those fre
uencies.
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