Yealink and Kramer partner to enhance the audio-visual collaboration experience in hybrid meeting spaces

Leading industry players take AV collaboration e perience to outstanding new levels

ISE, Barcelona, January 31, 2023 – Kramer, the leading audio-visual experiences company, has today announced its partnership with video conferencing, voice communication, and collaboration technology manufacturer Yealink, to enrich the audio-visual collaboration experience in hybrid meeting spaces.

Officially announced at Kramer’s ISE booth (Booth 3B300, Area A), the cross-certified collaboration solution for Microsoft Teams Rooms integrates Kramer’s BRAINware, VIA Go², and VIA Connect² with Yealink MVC II room systems. This elevates the level of video conferencing and content collaboration ease and flexibility while also vastly improving meeting effectiveness and user experience.

The partnership with Yealink supports Kramer’s overall goal of expanding its global ecosystem. It aims to empower seamless, immersive collaborative work and learning experiences, while opening opportunities for expanded flexibility for customers and partners.

Effortless configuration and set-up

The cloud-based BRAINware builder, the comprehensive master library of configurable dashboards and distributed control architecture ensure no prior knowledge of programming is necessary, allowing users to deploy any device simply across multiple rooms.

By simply connecting through a designated URL, communication between the Yealink MVC II room system and BRAINware is automatically available on the MTouch II touch panel for easy control at the touch of a finger.

Simple management from a single touchpoint

Through the seamless connectivity between Kramer’s BRAINware and Yealink’s MVC II room systems, meeting leaders can now wirelessly and effortlessly control the Microsoft Teams meeting and in-room control functionality for elements like lighting and shades through one single touch panel.

Ideal for meeting rooms of any size, from huddle rooms to extra-large meeting rooms, users can now enjoy a consistent room control experience regardless of the space they are in.

By utilizing a single touch panel for the controls, the collaborative solution not only supports multiple rooms or display types but also minimizes the control devices needed in each room, helping users reduce additional hardware costs.

Assured reliability and quality performance

The cross-certified solution, integrating Yealink MVC II room systems and Kramer’s BRAINware for room control, VIA Go², and Via Connect²for wireless collaboration, guarantees the highest stability and interoperability.

Coupled with the easy-to-use touch panel, users can now work with confidence that the room control solutions will work reliably and smoothly, reducing the occurrence of user errors and the need for support calls.

Aviv Ron, Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy at Kramer, said: “Kramer’s partnership with Yealink is exciting because together we are breaking boundaries to provide the best, most innovative audio-visual experiences in the world. Brought together by a common goal of bringing people closer together and improving communication efficiency while keeping costs low, this partnership combines Yealink’s world-leading UCC solutions, together with Kramer’s broad portfolio of best-in-class wireless innovations and simplified platform. We look forward to bringing high productivity and easy collaboration to our end-users with Yealink.”

Alvin Liao, Vice President of Product at Yealink, said “We are pleased to partner with Kramer and bring together our leading Teams Rooms devices with Kramer BRAINware, VIA Go², and VIA Connect² solution to deliver a simple and convenient meeting and control experience for modern workplaces.”

About Kramer

Kramer audio-visual experiences power creativity, collaboration, and engagement. From AVSM to advanced cloud-based communication, collaboration and control solutions, Kramer creates audio-visual experiences that are more engaging, more inclusive and more connected than ever before.

Headquartered in the heart of Startup Nation – Tel Aviv, Israel with locations around the world, Kramer’s audio-visual experts are designing the future of engagement technology. Physical and digital boundaries have blurred. But no matter how hybrid our world becomes, our desire for real, human connection will never cease.

Kramer’s intuitive, seamless technology breaks down walls, bridges gaps, and makes people feel closer together even when they’re far apart.

About Yealink

Yealink (Stock Code: 300628) is a global brand that specializes in video conferencing, voice communications, and collaboration solutions with best-in-class quality, innovative technology and user-friendly experience. As one of the best providers in more than 140 countries and regions, Yealink is Top5 video conferencing provider (IDC Global Video Conferencing Market Statistics 2021), and ranks No.1 in the global market share of SIP phone shipments (Global IP Desktop Phone Growth Excellence Leadership Award Report, Frost & Sullivan, 2020).

For more information, or to become a Yealink partner, please visit www.yealink.com