Introducing The Polycom Soundstructure Product Family; Defining Soundstructure Architectural Features - Polycom SoundStructure C16 Design Manual

Introducing the Polycom SoundStructure
Product Family
There are two product lines in the SoundStructure product family: the SoundStructure Conferencing series
devices (C-series) designed for audio conferencing applications and the SoundStructure Sound
Reinforcement series devices (SR-series) designed for commercial sound applications.
While the C-series and SR-series product families share a common design philosophy, both have audio
processing capabilities that are designed for their respective applications. As described in detail below, the
C-series products include acoustic echo cancellation on all inputs and are designed for audio and video
conferencing applications. The SR-series products do not include acoustic echo cancellation and are
designed for dedicated sound reinforcement, live sound, broadcast, and other commercial sound
applications that do not require acoustic echo cancellation processing.

Defining SoundStructure Architectural Features

This section defines the common architectural features of the SoundStructure products and details the
specific processing for both the C-series and SR-series products. Details on how to configure the devices
are provided in Introducing SoundStructure Design Concepts, Creating Designs with SoundStructure
Studio, and Customizing SoundStructure Designs.
All SoundStructure products are designed with the flexibility of an open architecture and the ease of design
and installation of a fixed architecture system. The resulting solution is tremendous flexibility in how signals
are processed while simultaneously making it easy to achieve exceptional system performance.
The SoundStructure processing includes input processing available on all inputs, output processing
available on all outputs, submix processing available on all submix signals, telephony processing available
on all optional telephony interfaces, and an audio matrix that connects this processing together. The
high-level architecture is shown in the following figure for a SoundStructure device that has N inputs and N
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