Latest Generation: Simple Doesn’t Mean Less

The latest addition to the all-in-one video bar lineup is Yealink’s MeetingBar A40, launched in September 2024. While video bars are known for their convenience, they can sometimes fall short of the stability, security, and management features needed for robust corporate use. Yealink addresses this with the A40, offering:

• Improved stability through its one-cable solution that handles sharing, BYOD and PD charging all from one desk cable.
• Enhanced security with Android 13 and Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) support, protecting against cyber threats and data breaches in Teams environments.
• Simplified IT management through remote monitoring, reducing downtime and ensuring smooth operations.

All-in-One Solutions: Beyond Video Bars

While video bars are effective for small rooms, Yealink offers a broader range of all-in-one solutions, including devices that integrate touch displays with built-in cameras, microphones, speakers, and digital whiteboards. These solutions offer plug-and-play simplicity but also transform workspaces into collaborative hubs. So how do you choose between a video bar and an integrated board?

Modern Style: MeetingBoard Solution

The MeetingBoard is ideal for newly constructed or renovated offices, where no legacy devices need to be reused. With a similar budget to a video bar, it offers more features like digital whiteboarding for enhanced hybrid collaboration. It’s also perfect for open spaces, executive offices, or even lobbies, as its movable floor stand allows for flexibility without requiring wall mounting. The dual-system compatibility (Android and Windows) ensures it fits into any office workflow.

Traditional Style: MeetingBar Series

For meeting rooms with existing TV setups, Yealink’s MeetingBar series offers a sustainable and budget-friendly solution. It easily attaches to any screen and is perfect for small spaces like huddle rooms or phone booths, where quick setup and affordability are key.

Conclusion

Whether you’re upgrading an existing room or setting up a new collaborative space, Yealink’s all-in-one solutions provide the right mix of simplicity, flexibility, and performance. With options like the MeetingBar A40 and MeetingBoard, Yealink covers a wide range of needs to ensure seamless hybrid collaboration.

Learn more about Yealink’s all-in-one solutions in this guide.

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Why DECT Headset?

DECT headsets are the ideal choice for business offices due to their interference-free operation, ensuring uninterrupted communication in high-density workspaces. These headsets offer clear voice transmission in VoIP systems, enhancing efficiency and focus for employees. Additionally, DECT headsets prioritize security by utilizing encryption and authentication algorithms, ensuring privacy for all calls. With their reliable connectivity, superior audio quality, and data protection features, DECT headsets provide a seamless communication experience, making them the preferred option for professionals in the business headphone market.

Hybrid Work Trends

With the rise of hybrid work models and the increasing demand for versatile audio solutions, hybrid wireless technology has emerged as a game-changer. Work is no longer a place you go, but a thing you do. We all know that the base and deployment would limit DECT headsets. But can DECT headsets be more flexible?

Innovative Wireless Mode Expands Possibility

With DECT & Bluetooth hybrid wireless technology in the headset, you don’t have to worry about the base limitation and keeping your mobile phone connecting with the dual wireless technology built-in headset. That’s how the Yealink WH64 hybrid wireless headset can help you.

WH64, Industry first hybrid wireless mode headset certified for UC platform, breaks through various scene and device usage restrictions to meet diverse employees’ needs while ensuring better and more professional experience to enhance work efficiency.

Featuring industry-leading 3-Mic noise cancellation technology, the WH64 headset ensures users can work seamlessly in various environments, including the new open office layout where noise levels can be unpredictable. Its innovative ergonomic design ensures all-day wearing comfort, allowing users to focus on their tasks without discomfort.

In summary, WH64 dual-mode functionality is the preferred choice for business professionals. They offer the necessary features for daily office tasks and are adaptable to different work environments, aligning with the hybrid work trend. With seamless switching between SIP phone networks and mobile phones, WH64 provides flexibility and optimal performance, making them the ideal solution for business communication.

Yealink at InfoComm 2024

Join us at InfoComm 2024, from June 12th to 14th, to witness firsthand the WH64 hybrid wireless headset. Visit Booth C5141 to experience Yealink’s full range of headsets, offering enhanced functionality and superior comfort.

To learn more about the new Yealink WH64 Hybrid wireless headset, visit their website here.

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We turned to Danny Hayasaka, senior director of marketing and emerging technology with Call One, Inc., and Hello Direct, Inc., who has developed a reputation as a product tester for various devices. Today, he oversees a YouTube channel with 10,700 subscribers and well over five million views. One major reason for its popularity is his fierce independence. “I test solutions across multiple brands,” Hayasaka explains. “No one pays me to talk about these devices.” 

So, when Hayasaka praises Yealink’s MeetingBar A10, it’s because the product truly deserves it. “The goal is to help people and businesses make more informed purchasing decisions,” he explains. Discussing his early interactions with Yealink several years ago, Hayasaka recalls the company’s desire to attain excellence and its appetite for candid feedback. “They really are huge into creating the best product for people,” he attests. Those initial conversations, spurred by Yealink looking to break into the headset space, evolved as video blew up during the pandemic. Hayasaka immediately knew Yealink was a natural fit with the solutions Call One and Hello Direct provide to their customers. “They have so many ideas and solutions that they’ve passed my way,” he marvels. 

The Yealink MeetingBar A10: Price and Performance 

Hayasaka is truly excited about the MeetingBar A10, an all-in-one video bar that includes microphones, speakers, a 4K camera and more. It’s designed for smaller meeting spaces, including dedicated offices, small focus spaces and huddle rooms. Leveraging the Android 11 OS, the MeetingBar A10 is remarkably flexible, running Microsoft Teams and Zoom Rooms natively and permitting BYOD. Hayasaka praises the framing modes, which include manual PTZ, auto-framing and speaker tracking. He compliments the MeetingBar A10’s transitions, saying that, if a speaker being tracked moves from one location to another, it’ll do a fade effect. 

With the rise of soft-codec solutions and the shift to the cloud, it’s now possible to video enable many spaces across corporate campuses. Hayasaka recalls, “It [used to] cost anywhere from $25,000 to $50,000 or more to outfit one of these spaces” with bulky, hardware-centric solutions. But with soft codecs, the cost per room has plummeted. Hayasaka praises the MeetingBar A10’s price point ($899), saying, “It’s actually one of the least-expensive options that’s going to be available.” He adds, “Having all the capabilities, features [and] functionality of the MeetingBar A10 for less than $900 is outstanding.” 

The Yealink MeetingBar A10: Simplicity and Wireless Sharing 

Hayasaka praises the simplicity of the MeetingBar A10. Defining “simple” from an end user’s perspective, he explains, “I don’t need to pay some installer to come in and install every room.” Instead, any team member can do it. After all, Hayasaka says, even the most tech-phobic among us can plug in an HDMI cable or plug in a network cable. And users get a familiar-feeling experience because the MeetingBar A10 is certified on Teams and Zoom. 

The MeetingBar A10 truly stands apart in its wireless sharing capabilities. Consider this typical scenario: Someone walks into a collaboration space with their laptop, and they want to not only share content but also take over the hardware that’s in the space — without having to connect anything. Competitor products, Hayasaka says, require a third-party wireless conferencing solution. By contrast, with the MeetingBar A10’s Device Mode and the WPP30 Wireless Presentation Pod (an inexpensive accessory), Yealink achieves true wireless flexibility. Users simply plug the WPP30 into the video bar, get a message indicating successful pairing and disconnect it. Then, they can plug the WPP30 into any laptop (via USB-C or USB-A) to drive the MeetingBar A10. “Within seconds, now you’re sharing,” Hayasaka enthuses. After that initial pairing with the MeetingBar A10, the WPP30 can stay in the room, ready for whoever wants to connect wirelessly. 

Tech Must Adapt to Us 

Device Mode aligns well with our expectation for technology solutions to adapt to our own workflow and preferences. These days, many companies are making an organizational commitment to Teams or Zoom, but the MeetingBar A10, via Device Mode, offers much greater flexibility. “[People] want that wireless capability and the ability to join whatever meeting platform they want, when they want,” Hayasaka propounds. “I can join whatever meeting I want right from my laptop and utilize the MeetingBar A10 as my audio and video device, wirelessly.” It’s just another way Yealink’s MeetingBar A10 stands apart. 

Watch Hayasaka discuss Yealink’s MeetingBar A10:

To get more information, visit https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/microsoft-teams-rooms-meetingbar-a10. 

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Businesses around the world are transitioning to hybrid workplaces, with a majority of managers introducing more flexible work policies, according to recent data. To help companies adjust to the new normal, Yealink has partnered with Intel to create a video conferencing solution that is efficient, secure, and easy to use.

Yealink’s video conferencing solution uses Intel architecture, including an Intel® Core processor, to encode and decode multiple video channels simultaneously, resulting in higher audio and video quality with no freezing or lagging. It also leverages the Intel® Media SDK to enhance video conferencing by performing hardware decoding on video streams. Yealink’s solution is designed to meet the various requirements of video conferencing, with up to 20 1080p@30FPS high-definition video streams, sound source location, facial close-ups, intelligent noise cancellation, intelligent facial recognition, and other advanced technologies that provide immersive video conferencing experiences.

The joint video conferencing solution from Intel and Yealink is optimized for popular video conferencing software like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and comes with essential components such as MCore microcomputers, MTouch II touch panels, a full range of 4K AI tracking cameras, and scenario-customized audio components to provide full-scenario coverage. This not only addresses the long-standing issues that have hindered widespread adoption, such as poor audio and video quality, but also tackles other common obstacles like limited network compatibility, complex equipment usage, and high deployment and maintenance costs.

Both companies are committed to relying on AI technology to incorporate more office automation and remote desktop technologies into the solution, enabling video conferencing systems to evolve from a meeting tool to an office platform, while achieving seamless office automation and further improving productivity.

Yealink and Intel also intend to incorporate Intel vPro® technology and Intel® DPDK into the solution, providing IT administrators with enhanced security and remote manageability. They are aiming to build a more secure, convenient, and high-quality video conferencing solution through continuous innovation to help businesses improve efficiency while employees achieve a better work-life balance.

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This time, Yealink shows it to the world that how the crystal-clear sound quality, sleek design and multi-devices/UC Platforms collaboration ability innovate the way people work and deliver an intuitive experience for hybrid workers in the post-pandemic era, against the coming challenge of noise in changeable places, long-time wearing and multi-parties collaboration.

Moreover, tailored for hybrid work, Yealink BH7X series headset has amazing performance in battery efficiency, with 35 hours of talking time of BH72 BH76 and 30 hours talking time of BH71.

Yealink has also launched the innovative PowerStation & UC Workstation to simplify desktops and redefine personal collaboration across various devices and platforms. With seamless integration into leading UC platforms and multi-devices. Yealink is driving communications and collaboration forward.

Yealink BH71

The Yealink BH71 offers more than just noise cancellation and wireless communications with a 4-mic array beamforming noise cancellation, reducing up to 90% of background noise. It boasts an adjustable ear hook that facilitates comfortable wearing too.

No matter how far a journey is, users don’t need to stay plugged in: the BH71 allows up to 10 hours of talk time plus an additional 20 hours with the charging case. Its lightweight design at only 50g makes it easy to carry around, allowing for collaboration and communication anywhere they go.

Revolutionary noise cancellation combined with its sustainable features makes this product perfect for those on-the-go who want a comfortable but reliable experience until their destination is reached.

Yealink BH76 & BH72

The Yealink BH76 and BH72 headsets are pioneering in their Point-of-Collaboration (POC) and ANC abilities (only available for BH76, allowing users to focus on communications and collaborate more.

The new design has incorporated Acoustic Shield Technology to generate an optimal sound environment by reducing up to 90% of background noise with its noise cancellation microphones.

Their 35 hours long talk time maxes out employee conversations and collaborations so that they never have any worries. For added convenience and comfort, the headset is built with a retractable microphone boom arm that allows users to adjust it with ease.

No matter where employees go, the BH76/72 will deliver unparalleled sound quality and a comfortable wearing experience.

Staying Focused

This range of headsets provides users with an intuitive experience, crystal-clear sound quality, and a sleek design. With the Brand-new BH71 mono Bluetooth headset for hybrid working, the upgraded BH72 essential Bluetooth headset for daily usage, and the BH76 premium Bluetooth headset with incredible noise cancellation abilities, these headsets are perfect for businesses that thrive on mobility.

Whether at the desk or on-the-go, Yealink’s BH7X Series Bluetooth Headsets offer unrivaled sound quality and comfort to keep employees connected and focused.

So why wait? Check out Yealink’s new range of BH7X Series Bluetooth Headsets today and start your journey toward the future of communications and collaboration!

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