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Video & A/V Vendors Show Their Innovation: Page 6 of 8

Logitech

Logitech officially announced the SmartDock Flex expansion kit. Flex includes two parts: the Flex Base that mounts to the bottom of the Logitech SmartDock (see our evaluation of Logitech SmartDock), and the Flex Extender Box that is installed near/behind the room display.

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The Flex Base and Extender Box are connected via a single CAT-x cable that carries data, audio, video, and power between the base and extender box at distances up to 50 feet, as shown in the diagram to the right. This single-cable connection approach saves time, reduces complexity, and results in a very clean overall installation. And notably, SmartDock Flex effectively addresses the primary weakness we saw in Logitech SmartDock during our hands-on testing -- cable management.

Logitech SmartDock is designed for use with Skype for Business as part of a Skype Room System (SRS). However, SmartDock Flex also supports A/V passthrough, which allows the room system's camera, audio system, and display to be used with other collaboration tools (e.g. Cisco WebEx, Zoom, BlueJeans, etc.) running on a user's notebook PC.

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MediaPlatform

While this company is really focused on an end-to-end platform for live streaming and VOD content management, MediaPlatform is also embracing conferencing and collaboration via interoperability with Polycom, Cisco, and Microsoft Skype for Business through its strategic partnership with Pexip. The Pexip relationship is also focused on making video meetings (including multi-point meetings) more "stream-able." We also enjoyed a strong demo of the company's new Video Business Intelligence software focused on providing detailed insight into the quality of experience (QoE) during webcasts by automatically capturing, aggregating, and presenting experience data provided by each user/player.

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Mersive

Recently acquired by OpenGate Capital, this innovative wireless presentation software company used ISE to land a beachhead in EMEA. Not afraid of a little risk, Mersive had a very large booth and was showing alpha code of Solstice Kepler, software that displays usage graphically by date, by location, by device as well as system status for all deployed Mersive rooms. The company's flagship product is Solstice itself, which is software to share and control any amount of content from laptops and mobile devices to a meeting room display. Users can wirelessly stream device screens, application windows, HD videos, etc. Mersive also showed Solstice room scheduling and support for five new languages: Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Traditional Chinese.

MultiTaction

Ideation broke through the noise level this year at ISE, and MultiTaction's Canvus is an example of a highly refined software app that allows users to visualize data, socialize ideas, educate clients, etc. (shown below). At the eventthe company announced a strategic partnership with InFocus under which InFocus will sell MultiTaction software worldwide. This announcement extends a previous working relationship under which MultiTaction resold InFocus interactive PC displays.

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Pexip

Every vendor needs a Microsoft story, and Pexip is no different. Pexip showed its Microsoft-certified video and content interoperability solution for Skype for Business. We witnessed an impressive demo of a Pexip-hosted Skype for Business meeting that included a Cisco Spark Room Kit, a Microsoft Surface Hub, a Skype Room System (in a Logitech SmartDock), a Polycom Group series endpoint, and WebRTC clients - all with their native experiences intact. That's the key -- keeping the native experience intact. The Pexip meeting platform includes native and plug-in-free scheduling from within Outlook, and all-new clients for both desktop and mobile users. With all of these features and functions, Pexip is looking beyond B2B and into B2C opportunities in markets such as banking and healthcare.

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