VSX 7000 Product Release Highlights • What’s being announced? Polycom VSX 7000 - The best quality, most advanced video conferencing product available at the Entry Level! This set-top appliance provides great quality audio and video with a new, user friendly interface.
Performance Group Product Positioning The VSX 7000 is a compliment to the current Polycom video product line and extends the Polycom video • product offerings to deliver new levels of price/performance at the Entry Level. The VSX 7000 will be launched in the ENTRY category •...
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• …And an integrated part of The Polycom Office. Target Customers VSX 7000 is targeted to any person who needs to work with others, to share ideas and to get things done. This includes: • Traditional videoconferencing users who want the very best video and audio quality •...
3.1. Basic Components The VSX 7000 is a set-top system with innovative design and function. The set-top unit itself includes the camera, integrated mid-range speaker and the basic I/O of the system. The companion subwoofer allows for great sound and is responsible for power and ISDN connectivity, allowing simplified cabling to the set-top unit.
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Subwoofer A subwoofer is included with every VSX 7000, and serves the source of power for the set-top unit and is the source of the optional network interface modules. The subwoofer is especially useful in rendition of vowel sounds (lower frequencies) that make up good speech reproduction.
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Up to 3 microphones can be used with a VSX 7000. Remote Control VSX 7000 debuts a new Polycom remote control, which includes several buttons frequently requested by customers, including: “Directory” key, “.” for IP addresses, and “Camera” for easy access to video sources.
Polycom VSX 7000 Product Reference Guide October, 2003 Documentation Set and Software Media The following documents are available for the systems: Document: Available in: For use by: Installation instruction Printed, Web Individual performing installation or adding poster peripherals, etc. Administrator’s Guide System administrators seeking more information on configuration options, etc.
Subwoofer Alternative line out 2x RCA Peripheral Connections VSX 7000 systems provide for very flexible configuration of peripheral devices. The following table lists how various devices can be plugged in to the systems: Device How to plug it in? Document camera NTSC or PAL document camera can be connected to the back of the system via S-video.
Technologies 4.1. People+Content Polycom’s patent-pending technology called People+Content is a radical departure from the traditional talking heads type of videoconferencing. With People+Content, Polycom addresses the overall concept that people and content need to be handled differently. Polycom Confidential Subject to change without notice...
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Polycom VSX 7000 Product Reference Guide October, 2003 Four key elements describe how People+Content revolutionized the collaboration experience: People+Content Traditional Videoconferencing Experience People+Content ensures that the Traditional videoconferencing Resolution and Frame appropriate resolution and frame systems work within the bounds of...
This feature the near-end preview button. simplifies content management. People+Content is supported on Polycom’s VSX 7000, ViewStation EX/FX/VS4000 and iPower videoconferencing endpoints, as well as MGC multipoint servers. 4.2. Video Compression Video compression is a critical technological component of videoconferencing. Under People+Content, VSX 7000 systems use different priorities for handling people video versus content video.
4.3. Audio Compression VSX 7000 supports a large set of audio compression algorithms in the industry. In addition to a full complement of ITU-T standards algorithms, VSX 7000 supports Siren™ 14, a new algorithm with a frequency response of 14 kHz.
ANS can produce virtually noiseless audio for most meeting environments. Automatic Gain Control is another algorithm that greatly enhances the audio pickup system of VSX 7000 systems. AGC intelligently normalizes speaking volumes so that persons seated further away from the microphone sound as loud as those seated close to the microphone.
The system’s Web server allows administrators to have access to the management functionality of the system via a web browser. Any system can be managed in any of the 11 languages supported in VSX 7000 – for example, an administrator in France can manage system in German in French, even though the system’s local user interface is in German.
People+Content, Polycom WebOffice, Global Management System, PowerCam, PowerMic, Siren and Polycom PathNavigator are trademarks of Polycom, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. * Polycom's application of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles...
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