Editor’s note: Scott Tiner is a technology manager at Bates College, which often uses Crestron products. This article is not a sponsored post and contains Scott’s personal opinions about Crestron Mercury after working with it at his institution. When companies launch new products, they always focus on major features of that product. Sometimes however, it […]

Crestron announced today a new partnership with Zoom, a provider of enterprise video and web communications technology, to simplify the Zoom Room experience by offering an integrated solution for AV presentation, conferencing and collaboration with the Crestron Mercury conferencing system. A Zoom Room features a dedicated computer running the Zoom application. Instead of carrying a laptop or tablet running […]

Crestron will show a lot of new products at InfoComm 2017, including Crestron Mercury, the tabletop meeting room solution, and DigitalMedia NVX Series, a 1Gb Ethernet network AV solution using IntoPix. New enterprise-grade TSW room scheduling touch screens, the SSW Room Availability Hallway Sign, and Vector performance loudspeakers, designed specifically for larger spaces in the enterprise, will also be showcased.   Crestron […]

Crestron said they have started shipping their Mercury tabletop meeting and collaboration system. Mercury is basically a conferencing phone with a built-in Crestron AirMedia wireless presentation gateway. So, you can use it to collaborate with users in far-sites or locally by using it as a presentation gateway for wireless content. Mercury can make calls from either a mobile device (cloud-codec) or […]

Editor’s Note: Leonard Suskin has additional thoughts on Biamp’s TesiraFORTÉ DAN, which you can read here. ISE has never been quite as big to me as InfoComm, though not for any particular reason. Perhaps it’s that time-zone differential is even worse heading East across the ocean than West to Las Vegas [or due South to […]