Conference audio goes way back. A collection of single-purpose black boxes has defined professional audio in the enterprise. A DSP for processing, a codec for communication, and receivers for wireless microphones, alongside the installed microphones and speakers themselves, each represented a separate hardware investment. Beyond the capital expense, each box added layers of design, installation, and configuration costs, while consuming rack space and power.

Many of us have been there. For decades, managing a global fleet of audiovisual assets has been a reactive, resource-intensive process. When a system in a distant office failed, the response was inevitably a service call, leading to costly downtime and dispatching technicians. Hardware reliability, while important, is now merely table stakes. The true competitive advantage for a global enterprise in 2025 lies in manageability. The critical question for IT leaders is no longer if the technology works, but how efficiently it can be monitored, maintained, and optimized at scale. How do you ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across 500 meeting rooms without hiring 50 new technicians?

Hybrid work can mean anything and everything by now, depending on who you ask. The transition to a permanent hybrid work model is complete. For global enterprises, “hybrid work” is now just “work.” Yet, a critical challenge remains that technology alone has struggled to solve: meeting equity. If your remote workers are treated like second-class citizens in meetings, with a poor view of the room and no voice in the conversation, your collaboration strategy is failing. The solution is not simply better cameras or microphones; it is about adding a new layer of intelligence to the meeting room itself.