Barco ClickShare Hub, Bring Wireless BYOD to your Microsoft Teams Rooms

Pieter Vancoillie, Product Manager for ClickShare at Barco, outlines the ClickShare Hub's new wireless BYOD capability alongside its native Microsoft Teams Rooms experience. He walks through the new DP Alt Mode button that needs no laptop software, the automatic prompt when a user starts a call from their laptop, and Wi-Fi 6E for lower latency and 4K.

Pieter Vancoillie, Product Manager for ClickShare, at Barco gives an update on the ClickShare Hub and its latest wireless BYOD functionality for Microsoft Teams Rooms.

• How the ClickShare Hub combines a native Microsoft Teams Rooms experience with wireless BYOD in one device

• The new generation button with DP Alt Mode support, working with any laptop and operating system without needing drivers

• A step-by-step walkthrough of the BYOD experience when a user starts a call from their laptop in a Microsoft Teams Room

• How Wi-Fi 6E connectivity delivers low latency and 4K wireless presentation

• Q&A covering frame rates, driver requirements, and dual-screen support

Chapters

• Introduction and Barco's BYOD background
• 0:55 Why extend ClickShare into the meeting room space
• 1:13 Native Teams Rooms plus wireless BYOD in one device
• The problem: users walking into rooms with unexpected calls
• 4:24 The new generation button and DP Alt Mode
• 6:43 Step-by-step BYOD user journey
• 7:23 Ending the call and returning the room
• Dual-screen behaviour
• Q&A: frame rates
• 10:14 Q&A: Wi-Fi 6E latency and 4K
• 10:51 Q&A: driver requirements

Key insights

• The ClickShare Hub was certified as a native Microsoft Teams Rooms device at the end of last year; wireless BYOD is the added upgrade.
• The new generation button supports DP Alt Mode, so it works with any laptop and operating system without installing software or drivers.
• The button exposes a speakerphone audio driver, so the Hub detects when a laptop call starts and prompts the user on the display.
• Pressing the button shows the laptop meeting on the room display and provides BYOD audio and video controls on the touch panel.
• Behaviour is the same whether the user opens Zoom or Teams on their laptop, because detection is based on audio device allocation.
• Leaving the call, giving back the room, or unplugging the button all return the Hub to its default Teams Rooms state.
• Wi-Fi 6E on the 6GHz band with direct connection gives lower latency than the previous C and CX generation and supports 4K presentation.
• Dual-screen setups mirror a single source; multiple sources on screen is being looked at for the future.

Insights summarised by AI from the episode transcript, reviewed by the Empowering.Cloud team.