Dante & Your Business:

How AV-over-IP can support virtual conferencing during COVID-19

As the space between employees increases, distance-limited USB-based conferencing solutions falter. With people safely distanced, it becomes increasingly difficult to hear what’s being said through a soundbar at one end of a room, and it is nearly impossible for a single USB microphone to capture everyone. Attendees on the opposite end of the call hear far too much room noise, and words become a blur. Loud voices near the microphone drown out others. Frustration and futility are the inevitable, unproductive outcomes.

It’s useful to ask what an imagined solution might look like, addressing the use cases and distancing required.

Audio-over-IP solutions like Audinate’s popular Dante are widely available in products from hundreds of manufacturers, providing a toolset that ensures a consistent, intuitive workflow with 100% easy interoperability between devices. Even used in a simple implementation, Dante addresses most of the concerns we have for safe, socially-distanced conferencing and is extendable to address many more.

White Paper: How Dante AV-over-IP Delivers Safer, Socially-Distanced Conference Rooms

A post-COVID 2020 update to the whitepaper "How Dante AV-over-IP Delivers Better Quality, Centrally Managed Conferencing".

Conferencing capabilities have been on the rise prior to the recent pandemic but now must be considered crucial. With substantial numbers of people working from home and in socially distanced workplaces, the ability to create a safe and effective environment for communication is critical to productivity, safety and the ability of companies to stay in business.

Audio-over-IP solutions like Audinate’s popular Dante are widely available in products from hundreds of manufacturers, providing a toolset that ensures a consistent, intuitive workflow with 100% easy interoperability between devices. Even used in a simple implementation, Dante addresses most of the concerns we have for safe, socially-distanced conferencing and is extendable to address many more.

This white paper is available in English and Spanish.

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System Diagram: Networked Conference Room

In response to COVID-19 demands, we've created a conference room diagram designed for simultaneous in-person and remote work. This easily scaled system allows employees to simultaneously and seamlessly share high quality audio and video content to meetings remotely.

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Case Study: Conferencing Solution Powered by Dante Proves Pandemic Resilient for North American Bank

One of North America’s largest financial institutions is putting the finishing touches on an impressive AV system for its new offices, featuring conferencing solutions and meeting spaces that could accommodate every need a global organization had traditionally required. But, as the system was being finalized, the 2020 global pandemic occurred – and the needs for work spaces changed rapidly.

Luckily, the bank’s conferencing setup utilized the scalable Dante audio-over-IP standard. Thus, when technicians for the financial firm looked at what challenges they might have with social distancing requirements, they instead discovered solutions.

Case Study: Corporate Meeting Spaces Streamlined at Querétaro Centro de Congresos with Dante

The Querétaro Centro de Congresos in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico serves as the premier professional meeting space for the state of Querétaro. The stunningly designed building can host more than 15,000 people divided across multiple spaces. The unifying factor across the multi-use campus? A scalable and interoperable AV-over-IP system backed by Audinate’s Dante.

“Dante obviously makes sense in the theater and across those live event spaces,” said Joel Ramírez, Production Supervisor at the location. “Everyone knows the benefits it brings there. But we’ve seen in the corporate spaces that it makes just as much sense as any other use.”

World Report: Your Essential Guide to Virtual Meetings and Distance Learning after Covid-19

Businesses and higher education institutions worldwide currently find themselves walking a unique tightrope. The COVID-19 pandemic rages in some regions and
has calmed down in others, but all over, many such organisations are attempting to resume some version of standard operations.

Learn more about how Sennheiser & Dante can deliver high-quality business and classroom conferencing to address a world in transition.

This white paper is available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.

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Audio-Technica Microphone Turorial: Overcome the Challenges of Socially Distanced Classrooms & Meeting Spaces

Audio-Technica Microphone Tutorial: Overcome the Challenges of Socially Distanced Classrooms & Meeting Spaces

Classrooms and presentation spaces that require social distancing are presenting challenges in applications that would normally use desktop boundary microphones or a single ceiling-mounted DSP based microphone solution. Overcoming distance limitations by placing multiple microphones with high directionality in the ceiling provides an effective way to cover a space while maintaining a safe distance.

This video features Audio-Technica's ES931ML highly directional microphones mounted to flush mount Dante interfaces. This combination provides superior control over sound sources along with the simplicity of Dante audio routing.

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& Your Business:

Take your company communications to the next level!

Dante is the de-facto standard in audio-over-IP (AoIP) solutions, powering countless installations with products from hundreds of manufacturers to deliver pristine, noise-free audio over existing network infrastructure. Adding Dante Domain Manager brings centralized, IT-level management to Dante systems, helping IT to address problems before they start. Learn more.

Upgrade from unmanaged and troublesome USB and analog devices. With Dante audio networking and Dante Domain Manager, you can integrate your business audio needs with your existing network safely and easily, allowing for easy and flexible deployments to address conferencing and event requirements that are managed like any other IT resource.

Oversee dozens of securely isolated conference spaces in one location, with complete control over user access to AoIP network resources.

Solve problems of scale and distance with easily configured subnet bridging, allowing Dante to fit your network designs and not the other way around.

ARCHIVED WEBINAR: How Dante AV-over-IP helps IT management deliver high-quality conferencing solutions

On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, Audinate and Shure delivered the webinar "How Dante AV-over-IP helps IT management deliver high-quality conferencing solutions," hosted by AV Technology.

USB and analog-based conferencing solutions create unmanageable problems for IT departments and compromise both audio quality and device placement. Moving to an AV-over-IP system addresses many of these issues, improving the quality of conferencing with perfectly placed, high quality microphones, DSPs and speakers, and allowing the system to be centrally managed and supported by IT. This webinar looks at how a Dante-based conferencing solution using Dante Domain Manager looks and is installed to achieve these results.

Find out more about the webinar and panelists.

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