Our existing clients will know just how great Yealink’s video conferencing solutions are, with devices like the A40 transforming Teams from a clunky video meeting interface to a genuinely productive and collaborative tool.
What we particularly like about Yealink, and why its offering is almost always what we recommend to new clients, is that it continually upgrades and adapts its product offering to solve common video meeting frustrations. Their latest device, the Yealink M Tower, proves this point perfectly, directly addressing the lack of meeting equity commonplace in video meetings via a 360-degree all-in-one camera. Here’s why it’s something your business should try.
What Is The Yealink M Tower?
The Yealink M Tower is billed as the brand’s premium solution for “high-end video conferencing”. It is a 360-degree camera solution designed to capture a completely panoramic view of the meeting room and ensure all participants are seen and heard properly.
Unlike many traditional video conferencing setups, which involve individual cameras, speakers and microphones (and many cables to go with them), the M Tower is an all-in-one device that combines all of this hardware into one powerful device. It simply sits in the centre of the meeting room table, powered by advanced AI-driven speaker tracking to automatically detect whoever is speaking and allow for natural and configuration-free video meetings.
How Does The Yealink M Tower Work?
As well as removing the need for separate devices and invasive cabling, the Yealink M Tower also overcomes one of the biggest frustrations with traditional video conferencing setups: the struggle to represent each meeting participant equally. By deploying a panoramic camera, every angle of the room is captured. Participants seated at the far end of the table can have just as much meeting input as those sitting closest to the camera in a traditional sense.
Once a meeting is in play, it can be managed via a separate touch screen whilst the AI-driven speaker tracking flows with whoever is contributing at one time. There is no need to fiddle about via the control panel or physically move the camera to point towards the current speaker, as the M Tower will automatically pick up attendees and mean that those not in the room follow the meeting as if they were physically present.
Key Business Benefits
There is no doubt that the Yealink M Tower’s technology is impressive, and its capabilities are advanced, but why does this actually matter to your business? This clever Yealink video conferencing device makes your video meetings both look and sound better, and this can have a range of follow-on benefits to your business, including:
Improved Meeting Equity
As the world of work has transitioned into laptop working and hybrid meetings, meeting equity is something that has struggled to keep up. Whilst software like Zoom and Teams makes it perfectly possible to have a meeting no matter where you are in the world, these platforms alone struggle to recreate the feeling of being in a room with others.
The Yealink M Tower improves meeting equity in virtual meetings tenfold. Thanks to the panoramic camera, nobody is hidden from the frame, whilst the AI speaker tracking gives every participant the opportunity to be seen and heard clearly. As a result, meetings held with the M Tower in use are notably more collaborative and balanced than without.
Simplifies Meeting Set Up
We’ve all been in a video meeting where participants on the other end are struggling to join. Even worse, we’ve probably all been in a meeting room minutes before the meeting to discover that it’s us who will have technical problems today, whether that’s down to tricky-to-use kit or the wrong devices plugged in.
One of the major business benefits of the Yealink M Tower is that it prevents these awkward setup hiccups with its all-in-one design and USB plug-and-play connectivity. Meetings can be set up in seconds with no last-minute calls to IT for help, ensuring that you’re on time, easily heard, and spending your time engaging in the meeting rather than asking, “Can you hear us yet?!”.
Better Client & Team Relations
It doesn’t matter if a meeting is being held virtually; first impressions still matter. Thanks to the easy setup of the Yealink M Tower, you know you’ve got over the first hurdles on this front, but this Yealink video conferencing device goes one step further by ensuring you give the best impression throughout the whole meeting.
The video environment created by the M Tower is completely immersive, with high-resolution sensors capturing every detail and automatic framing replicating the feel of in-person interactions. Even if your clients or colleagues are located miles away, you can still build relationships as if they sat next to you. This means you might foster stronger collaboration, and maybe even close better deals or do more business together.
Get The Yealink M Tower With Agile Comms
For businesses valuing professionalism and wanting to ensure that their video meetings remain grounded in the real world, the Yealink M Tower is undoubtedly a valuable investment. Its 360-degree, cutting-edge design removes virtual barriers between meeting participants, resulting in video meetings that are more engaging and collaborative than ever before.
At Agile Comms, we specialise in the installation and setup of Yealink video conferencing solutions and are starting to see our clients enjoy the benefits of the M Tower already. We’ve fitted video conferencing solutions in meeting rooms of all sizes up and down the country, and help you understand if this one is the right fit for your organisation before embarking on a seamless installation and training process.
Simply get in touch today to find out how we can help you upgrade your business video conferencing with state-of-the-art Yealink kit.
