Collaboration spaces have taken center stage in hybrid work ecosystems merging people, culture, and engagement. Found in conference rooms, waiting rooms, lobbies, and huddle spaces, today’s collaboration spaces enable everyone to share ideas with no barriers. Successful AV solutions need to be technologically advanced to harmonize in-room and remote collaboration experiences, yet exceedingly easy so users can just walk/click in and join the meeting.
AVaaS conference room bundles give you this sophisticated simplicity. Choose from worry-free, pre-configured, bundles in a predictable OPEX model that are certified for Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Or opt for fully customized, integrated solutions crafted to meet your specific needs, platform, and environment.
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When you partner with Black Box, you partner with industry leaders. Our vast portfolio includes solutions from Cisco Webex, Zoom, Crestron, NEC, and more. No matter if you’re a large, small or midsized enterprise, you’ll find the right technologies to help your employees innovate, collaborate, and communicate no matter where they work from. The pandemic thrust AV technology into a new role in the workplace ecosystem. It is more than a communications facilitator. It is business-critical technology affecting every aspect of how we act and interact with colleagues in unprecedented ways.
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In today's world, collaboration solutions are a must-have. Choose from pre-configured and customized bundles for conference rooms of all sizes.
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Skilled and certified engineers design today's complex audio, video, and collaboration solutions that integrate seamlessly with your communications platform and give users extraordinary, reliable, consistent experiences.
Expect personalized, professional project management services from the same team starting with procurement and staging to installation and support. We'll take care of all the details, so you can focus on your business priorities.
Our field technicians are certified to handle your unique deployment needs at one site or thousands of sites. Expect the same performance and the same results any and everywhere around the globe.
The project doesn't end with "handing over the keys." Layer on preventative maintenance to keep your system running smoothly. When remote technical support won't suffice, we provide critical on-site support.
Are you looking to enhance your organization's communication, collaboration, and overall efficiency? Then it's time to evaluate the pros and cons of your current AV configuration vs. moving to AVaaS.
Contact UsWhen you partner with Black Box, you partner with industry leaders. Our vast portfolio includes solutions from world-class innovators creating audio, video, and collaboration solutions that will shape and redefine how users experience the workplace.
In the bustling hub of Chicago, NorthPoint Fresh emerges as a leading force in temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution. Facing IT challenges and Wi-Fi interference issues, they turned to Black Box for comprehensive solutions. With upgraded infrastructure and advanced technology implementation, NorthPoint Fresh elevated its operational efficiency, safety standards, and HR compliance, positioning itself as one of the industry leaders.
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A municipality government was pursuing its AV system update and required a short turnaround. Black Box stepped in with 'product ready' components on hand and created a budget-friendly, scalable, consistent, and easy-to-use AV system with a delivery date of less than a month. They also added Black Box services to their system upgrade program to avoid future cases of falling behind.
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A workspace-for-rent company, while expanding globally, was facing issues in providing consistent, reliable, and easy-to-use video conferencing technology in each location. They partnered with Black Box to create a modular, cartable conferencing system with minimal and repeatable components. Black Box provided a high level of tech with ease of use such that every staff member can deploy the system to any customer at any site at a moment's notice.
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A Global Energy enterprise was using an outdated teleconferencing system, which needed to be upgraded to state-of-the-art video conferencing technology. However, despite interacting with multiple suppliers, they couldn't find a good fit. That is when Black Box stepped in to develop an AV conferencing system utilizing a consumable OpEX model deployed in short order and installed by experts across all the locations of this Global Energy company to provide similar experiences globally.
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Technology is revolutionizing the customer experience and shopping is now multi-channel, ecommerce integration. One international retailer turned the online shopping experience into a personalized, interactive in-store experience with strategically placed digital signage and smart technology. In one store, the system sales increased 36% over a six-week period.
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A Wide Area Network (WAN) is the network that is used to connect various office environments over large geographic areas by linking the data center to remote locations. Generally, it consists of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) infrastructure to connect branches to headquarter networks. However, this infrastructure was never meant to support cloud applications or the thousands of devices that we use today. Traditional WAN architecture also includes single points of failure due to its structure relying on one provider and data center, leading to a lack of a performance guarantee.
Modern WAN Architecture needs to offer: performance, reliability, cost-efficiency, simplicity, security, and intelligence
It should be: smart, efficient, easy to manage, and know how/when to appropriately steer traffic over various network paths, all while maintaining performance and reliability.
It should help businesses adopt cloud-based services and applications while optimizing bandwidth and traffic from every area. Finally, it should keep everything secure regardless of the type of connection.
SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) brings “network virtualization” to traditional WAN infrastructure and controls the traffic over all circuits. This enables IT professionals to transfer the operational responsibilities of WAN to the cloud controller and to seamlessly manage every branch network centrally. SD-WAN overlays a software-driven network on a physical network, breaking up the WAN network into a set of capabilities, and giving enterprises the ability to diversify their providers, network management, traffic, and monitoring functions. According to an IDC – US Enterprise Survey, more than 70% of medium to large U.S. companies intend to implement SD-WAN by 2022.1
Enterprises that have that have adopted SD-WAN’s can choose from a plethora of service providers, transports, and locations to ensure optimum performance at all times and business continuity. This “network virtualization,” or cloud network, routes traffic over multiple routes to a destination(s) providing better performance and network uptime assurance. With SD-WAN, companies reported a staggering 94% reduction in network downtime.2
SD-WAN simplifies policy creation and network configuration by aligning business-level policy decisions with network policies. Businesses are able to add devices and circuits while keeping the old infrastructure and making the transition seamless. Control Plane Servers can be very flexible, hosted in existing hardware or even through the cloud. This makes the implementation of SD-WAN highly cost effective due to the lack of new hardware components, and can reduce or even eliminate the need for data closets or even onsite IT.
Today’s network requirements have far surpassed the capabilities of WAN, hybrid MPLS, and internet broadband. Due to the massive influx in network-connected devices, traditional WAN infrastructures simply cannot keep up with the bandwidth required to run a business smoothly and securely in today’s day and age. Enterprises are implementing SD-WAN’s networking capabilities in order to survive and adapt to rapidly-changing business and technology landscapes.
Furthermore, there is a high-cost, labor-intensive, and time-consuming process associated with the complex hardware, maintenance, and provisioning of in-house data centers and network operations. Some enterprises simply do not have the funds, capacity, or size to maintain on-premise networks especially as they moves towards a total digital transformation. Adding to network complexity of on-premise network operations is being tied to a long-term contract with a single provider.
The implementation of SD-WAN into your network infrastructure can solve many of the problems associated with last-century WAN architectures. Traditional WAN does not have the capabilities to support cloud applications or handle the demands on bandwidth that go along with digital transformation.
SD-WAN’s Benefits:
With SD-WAN, a North American service provider experienced a 30% reduction in connectivity costs, as well as an incredible reduction in fulfillment time from an average of 21 days to just minutes.3
It’s a lot easier than you think based on the simplicity of SD-WAN and we’ll walk you through how to get a flexible, versatile SD-WAN solution for your growing enterprise. We’ll work with you to configure, program, and scale an SD-WAN based on your network and security access needs and get you set up with the right combination of carrier services. It’s very likely you won’t need many boots on the ground or new equipment deployments, but if you do, our global tech force is everywhere you are.
The future of enterprise networking is SD-WAN. It’s cost-effective, flexible, and gives you the ability to utilize the full capability of carrier-provided networks and cloud infrastructure. SD-WAN simplifies the complex landscape of hardware, carriers, and IT headaches.
Have more questions? Want more details? Take a look at this white paper: Understanding the Benefits of SD-WAN.
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1.US Enterprise Communications Survey: SD-WAN SMB Uptake, 2020
2.Help me SD-WAN, you’re my only hope!
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Black Box has a dedicated AV Solution Engineering team that is skilled at building AV solutions for customers needing conference rooms, huddle spaces, operations centers, classrooms, auditoriums and collaboration spaces. Our custom design and consultancy services will provide you with the right product mix from leading partnerships including Crestron, Zoom Rooms, NEC, and Webex that will meet your video conferencing and collaboration needs.
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