As Microsoft Teams continues to dominate the collaboration space, the shift towards hybrid meetings has brought a critical challenge to the forefront – ensuring ‘meeting equity.’ This concept emphasizes creating an equal experience for all participants, whether they're onsite or remote, by bridging the gap between physical and virtual meeting spaces.
Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) takes the hybrid workplace experience to a whole new level by transforming traditional meeting spaces into fully integrated collaboration hubs.
But what is Microsoft Teams Rooms and why should your organization consider using it?
What Is Microsoft Teams Rooms?
Microsoft Teams Rooms is a specially designed meeting room system that delivers a unified and professional conferencing experience. Combining the familiar Microsoft Teams experience with Microsoft-certified hardware, Microsoft Teams Rooms systems create an immersive, inclusive and productive meeting environment for in-room and remote participants alike.
Microsoft Teams Rooms setups typically comprise a compute unit (or an all-in-one collaboration bar) to run the MTR software and orchestrate between the room’s devices, a touch control panel, cameras, microphones and speakers optimized for the meeting room size. All these integrate seamlessly with the Microsoft Teams platform, ensuring a consistent user experience across all devices.
Whether you’re hosting a small team huddle or a large boardroom presentation, Microsoft Teams Rooms systems are highly scalable and adaptable to various scenarios.
Why Use Microsoft Teams Rooms?
Investing in Microsoft Teams Rooms offers multiple benefits that can improve collaboration and enhance meeting room productivity across your entire organization.
Fostering Meeting Equity
Advanced Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions can utilize AI-powered multi-camera setups to ensure that remote participants see the individual faces of in-room attendees through features like gallery view, making everyone feel equally present and engaged regardless of location.
Simplified Meeting Management
Say goodbye to the technical hassles of setting up meetings. MTR systems allow one-touch join capabilities, simplifying the process for participants. Integration with Microsoft 365 ensures easy access to calendars, meeting schedules and collaboration tools directly within the room system.
Enhanced Meeting Room Productivity
Microsoft Teams Rooms eliminates common meeting inefficiencies, such as delays caused by technical issues or poor connectivity. With crystal-clear audio and video, participants can focus on the discussion, leading to more productive outcomes. Features like screen sharing, whiteboarding and live transcription further enhance the collaborative experience.
Scalable Solutions for Any Space
Whatever the room size, Microsoft Teams Rooms provides a scalable solution to fit your needs. Certified hardware ensures high performance, whether you’re equipping a small team meeting space or a large conference room.
Advanced Security and Management
Microsoft Teams Rooms integrates with your existing Microsoft 365 environment, benefiting from its enterprise-grade security features. IT administrators can remotely manage and monitor MTR devices, ensuring smooth operations and quick troubleshooting when needed. In addition, the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) ensures Android-based MTR devices meet strict security and performance standards.
AudioCodes Solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms
When it comes to optimizing your meeting experience, AudioCodes offers a wide range of Microsoft Teams Rooms certified devices tailored to enhance productivity and collaboration.
From certified Microsoft Teams Rooms compute units like the RXV200 intelligent AV hub and the all-in-one RXV81 video bar to consoles like the RX-PAD Meeting Room Controller, and from innovative video cameras to audio devices for every room size, AudioCodes’ MTR solutions ensure seamless integration, superior performance and enterprise-grade security.
And if you want to tap into the magic of AI to further accelerate your business productivity and enable better decision making across your entire organization, the AudioCodes Intelligent Meeting Room has you covered. It leverages generative AI for automatic meeting summarization and visual AI to combine video streams from multiple cameras to provide a dynamic view of individual participants and the room as a whole for true meeting equity.
Moreover, the AudioCodes Device Manager makes it easy for IT teams to deploy, manage and monitor Microsoft Teams Rooms systems devices, ensuring quick and hassle-free setup and maintenance.
AudioCodes is also an official MDEP partner, which means that our flagship RXV200 MTR bundles for medium to large rooms (including the RX-PANEL and RX-PAD), will soon be an even better choice for security-conscious industries such as defense, government and healthcare.
Want to get started? Check out AudioCodes’ certified solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms today and redefine the way your organization collaborates.
