Yamaha Unified Communications has added Mersive Technologies to its Strategic Partner Program, a new alliance bringing Yamaha’s audio and Mersive’s Bring Your Own Meeting room system to hybrid workspaces, allowing onsite and remote workers to work together more easily.
Specifically, Yamaha’s YVC series of conference phones integrate with Mersive’s Solstice Pod to deliver a new meeting and learning space alternative. “Yamaha continually strives to create high-quality, easy-to-use collaboration solutions for today’s meeting spaces. Partnering with Mersive Technologies ensures that users can effortlessly collaborate with professional audio that is vital to meeting productivity and efficiency,” says Michelle Baeza, director of strategic partnerships at Yamaha UC. “Together, our shared value of flexibility brings new capabilities to meetings.”
Yamaha’s software-agnostic YVC series of conference phones offer proprietary Human Voice Activity Detection, speaker tracking, and dynamic acoustic echo cancellation, while Mersive’s Solstice Pod combines Solstice Conference collaboration software with high-performance hardware and I/O capabilities designed to optimize collaboration environments.
Paired with a Yamaha YVC-200, YVC-330, or YVC-1000 conference phone and the option of a USB camera, users have a room system for hybrid workplaces. Solstice Conference bridges to remote participants using any major video conferencing service, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Webex.
“At a time when hybrid and remote communications are more important than ever, Mersive’s partnership with Yamaha provides valuable solutions for the hybrid workplace,” says Robert Balgley, CEO of Mersive. “Working together with Yamaha allows Mersive to expand our offerings to channel partners and end users, providing flexible room solutions that support all meeting room types — from private offices to large boardrooms — with best-in-class meeting collaboration, conferencing support, and audio clarity.”
The YVC series offers scalable device configurations to suit the room size, group size, and collaboration needs. The YVC-200 USB & Bluetooth Speakerphone is designed for small meeting rooms with up to four people, while the YVC-330 USB & Bluetooth Speakerphone is for meeting rooms with four to 10 people. In addition, two YVC-330s can be daisy-chained to cover up to 16 participants. Large meeting spaces where up to 40 people can gather require the YVC-1000’s separate microphone and speaker system.
Mersive and Yamaha components are available globally through AV/IT technology dealers and integrators.
