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Julie Berry, IT and AV support ofﬁcer at University of Huddersﬁeld gives her views on the newly launched huddle room product

At the University of Huddersﬁeld we have been transitioning to Skype for Business for the last couple of years. As a result of this we have

been ﬁtting out rooms so that they are Skype for Buisness (SfB) ready when they are refurbished.

Our reﬁts commonly involve a Logitech C920 camera along with Audio-Technica boundary mics in the ceiling, which has worked

perfectly well for us, but we always felt that there must be something better out there. We looked at a couple of other products that were

close but not quite what we were looking for. The Acendo Vibe was very close but with the controls on the side we didn’t feel that it

was quite as intuitive as it could be and was a bit on the pricey side. The Crestron Mercury was good too but lacked a camera and you

would still have cables dragging across the table when you linked up additional mics.

One of the problems that we encounter is that people agree a speciﬁc time for a video conference and then ﬁnd that there are no

suitably equipped rooms available at that time because they are being used for normal ‘physical’ meetings. What we wanted was a

portable option so we could transform any room into a video conferencing room.

So, when I went to the LTSMG conference (The Learning and Teaching Spaces Managers Group) at the University of Hertfordshire in

November (2017), I saw the Yamaha CS-700 on display. We have been using a Revolabs FLX UC500 mic/speaker combination with

great results and the CS-700 appeared to use the same technology but with an added camera and the controls now clearly visible on

the front. An added bonus was that Yamaha were demonstrating it attached to a screen on a trolley, which is exactly what we had been

thinking of doing ourselves for the portable option. It looked perfect for us.

When I got back to the ofﬁce, I spoke to our integrator Roche AV to get a price (£900 + VAT) and decided to buy one. Unfortunately as

this was such a new product they were not actually available yet so I would have to wait for a month or two. So I waited. And I waited

until eventually I saw a tweet from AV Technology Europe - it was ﬁnally available in the UK. I called Roche and it arrived the next day –

Valentine’s Day. Not quite a bunch of roses, but who am I to complain?

“I don’t think you could want more from a video conferencing

system without making it too complicated.”

Reviewed: The all in one Yamaha CS-700

video conferencing solution

https://www.installation-international.com/technology/reviewed-yamaha-cs-700

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Reviewed: The all in one Yamaha CS-700 video conferencing solution Julie Berry, IT and AV support officer at University of Huddersfield gives her views on the newly launched huddle room product “I don’t think you could want more from a video conferencing system without making it too complicated.” At the University of Huddersfield we have been transitioning to Skype for Business for the last couple of years.
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“The device was securely packed and came with everything I would need to connect it to an office” The device was securely packed and came with everything I would need to connect it to an office. There was a mounting to screw into the wall and the instructions showed how the bracket to hold it easily snapped in. You can have it installed and working within half an hour of opening the box.