Cisco Webex Boards

The Cisco Webex® Board is an all-in-one device that provides everything you need to collaborate with your teams in physical meeting rooms. You can wirelessly present, white board, and have video and audio calls. And it securely connects to your virtual teams through the Cisco® Webex service, via your Cisco Webex Teams™ or Meetings app-enabled devices, so you can take your meetings and content on the road. The Webex Board 55S* is designed for huddle and small spaces up to five people. The Webex Board is also available in 70- and 85-inch screen options.



Product Overview The Cisco Webex Board revolutionizes the way we work by combining key requirements for team collaboration in the physical meeting room into a single device and connects it to the cloud for continuous workflow. It’s a wireless presentation screen, a digital whiteboard, and an audio and video conferencing system, all in one. The Webex Board helps teams collaborate in physical meeting rooms, but also securely connects to virtual meeting spaces to facilitate continuous workflow before, during, and after everyone has left the physical conference room.

The Cisco Webex Board draws its power from the Cisco Webex service, which combines meeting, messaging, calling, and new white boarding capabilities on any Webex Teams or Webex Meetings app-enabled device. Registration to the Cisco Webex in the cloud lets you store everything created on the Webex Board directly in the cloud and associate it to a virtual Webex Teams space, so you can take your work wherever you go. The Webex Board solution offers an integrated, secure, and comprehensive lifecycle approach to teamwork that is as yet unimagined, and thus unmatched, by any other solution on the market.

The Cisco Webex Board 55S* is a fully self-contained system on a high-resolution 4K 55-inch LED screen. With an integrated 4K camera, embedded microphones, and a capacitive touch interface, the board brings intelligence, style, and usability to meeting rooms, from small to large. Designed with minimal wires for simplicity and elegance, Cisco’s latest collaboration device allows wireless sharing and Wi-Fi connectivity. The system is also touch-based for easy and rich team collaboration. Not only is the Webex Board beautiful to behold and effortless to use, it is also affordable to acquire and easy to install and deploy, so that it can be a fixture in all of your conference rooms.

* The latest hardware revision of the Webex Board family may be referred to as the S Series, representing minor optimization to the hardware platform. The product name remains the same, but the product ID reflects an addition of “S” to differentiate from the first revision for ordering purposes.



Features & Benefits Wireless Presentation

No wires required to share a presentation, locally or remotely, from a laptop (HDMI available)

Share wirelessly from your Webex Teams or Webex Meetings app

Digital Whiteboard

Easily whiteboard with the Cisco Webex Pen or your finger on the Cisco Webex Board and automatically save content to a Cisco Webex Teams space, or send whiteboards as email attachments directly from the Board

Easily collaborate on a whiteboard in real time with remote participants on other Webex Boards or participants using the Webex Teams app

Connect to whiteboarding capabilities on any Webex Teams app

Annotate on shared content

An infinite canvas gives you unlimited workspace when whiteboarding

Meeting participants on devices that do not support native whiteboarding will see the whiteboard as standard presentation sharing

Meetings

Embedded camera, speakers, and microphones for high-quality video audio conferencing

Digital Signage

A powerful web engine provides the ability to connect to a web-based backend, to automatically display information when the Webex Board is not in use

Content displayed in signage mode can be either static or interactive, giving users the option to interact with the content displayed

Industrial Design

Discreet built-in 4K camera is unintimidating, to help users feel comfortable when close to the screen

Built-in microphones and wireless sharing add to the clean, no-wire aesthetics

Fixed-lens camera uses an 83-degree-wide field of view to capture virtually the entire room

High-resolution 4K screen shows detailed content beautifully

Usability

Easy-to-understand activity circles correspond to the basic activities and workflows that users need to get their work done

Intuitive navigation, such as a home button and touchscreen, is a staple of mobile devices and familiar to users

Consistent user interface and workflow across the Webex Board and Webex Teams or Meetings app reduce the user’s learning curve

Familiar capacitive touch capability is the same as on smartphones and tablets, and allows for two-point multi-touch, which lets two people work on the board at the same time

Simplified meeting-join experience with One Button To Push (OBTP) enables fast meeting start and consistency with rest of Cisco video devices

Support for hybrid phone book lets Webex Board search for both cloud- or premises-registered video devices for easy dialing, and allows premises-registered endpoints to search for Webex Boards

Add Cisco Touch 10 to allow even more flexibility in controlling the Webex Board

Continuous Workflow

Cloud registration lets everything created on the Webex Board be stored directly and securely in the cloud and associated to a virtual Webex Teams space

Team members can pick up wherever they left off on the Webex Board when they leave the physical room; work can continue from a different location, time zone, or device, such as another Webex Board or any other Webex Teams app on smartphones, tablets, and laptops

Webex Board and the Cisco Webex service together provide end-to-end encryption, so your communications and content are secure

Intelligent Views

Powerful 4K camera captures high-resolution image of virtually the entire room

Intelligent software algorithms enable automatic framing for best overview, which provides ideal framing to the far end

Powerful and intelligent ML capabilities for automatic people count and face recognition

Intelligent Audio

Built-in 12-microphone array amplifies sound quality – as if a microphone has been extended to each speaker

Automatically modulates the active speaker so that clear audio is delivered to the far end, whether the speaker is close to or far away from the Webex Board

No microphone wires to detract from the aesthetics of the Webex Board

Powerful microphones cover a room with 8 to 10 people

Intelligent Proximity

Cisco Webex Proximity and ultrasound pairing technology enable the following:

Webex Board automatically wakes up when it detects a Webex Teams or Webex Meetings user enter the room and suggests an activity to choose from

Wireless sharing of documents from a laptop is enabled both within and outside of a conference call; connect seamlessly to personal and mobile devices using ultrasound (no need for dongles, adapters, typing in PINs, etc.)

Control of the Webex Board can be done through the Webex Teams or Meetings app device (make and disconnect calls, etc.)

On-premises deployment

Webex Board is optimized for cloud deployments, but can also register to on-premises infrastructure (Cisco UCM, Expressway ™, or third-party SIP/H.323 call control). In an on-premises deployment, the Webex Board is limited to support audio and video conferencing, content sharing (wireless or HDMI), and local whiteboarding out of call



Product Specifications Software

For cloud deployments - Cisco Webex Room OS, provisioned and updated by Cisco Webex

For on-premises deployments – CE9.8 or later

Components

Fully integrated unit is delivered with:

Multi-touch 55-inch LED display

4K camera

12-microphone array

Speakers

White boarding pen

Display

Edge LED LCD – 55-inch 4K, 350 nits, 16:9

Viewing angle: +- 89 degrees (all directions)

Number of colors: 1.07 billion (10 bit)

Contrast: 1:4000

Response time: 5.5 ms

User interface

Control the Webex Board from the touch screen

Capacitive touch screen with protective glass and optical bonding

Multi-touch

Optionally use Cisco Touch 10 control unit

Inputs & Outputs

HDMI input

Home button

3.5-mm mini jack audio out (line out)

USB-C (future use)

USB micro (service)

Camera Overview

Fixed lens, infinite focus

F-value: 2.8

4Kp60

Horizontal Field Of View (HFOV): 83 degrees

Vertical Field Of View (VFOV): 55 degrees

Camera mounted tilted: -25 degrees

Audio System

12-element microphone array (with intelligent voice tracking)

Integrated voice-optimized speakers

Network

Ethernet (RJ-45) 100/1000 Mbps

Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n; 802.11ac (2.4 and 5 GHz)

Bluetooth ready

IPv4 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)/static

IPv6 (both static and stateless address auto-configuration)

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

HTTP Proxy support (for signaling, not media)

Inspecting TLS Proxy supported

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

802.1X network authentication (Passphrase or X.509 client certificate)

802.1Q virtual LAN

802.1p (Qos and Class of Service [CoS])

User Controls

Control Cisco Webex Board directly from the touchscreen or using the Cisco Webex Teams or Meetings app

Optionally use Cisco Touch 10 control unit

Language Support

English, Spanish, German, French, French Canadian, Portuguese, Japanese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish

Additional languages to be supported in future software release

System Management

For cloud deployments - Cisco Webex Board is managed in the administrator Webex Control Hub, giving system status and overview, activation, configuration, metrics, and troubleshooting

For on-premises deployments, Webex Board can be managed with Cisco UCM or Expressway

System Requirements For Cloud Deployments

Cisco Webex Board is connected to the Cisco Webex cloud service using RESTful APIs. Communication with other Webex Boards, Webex Teams apps, or other third-party solutions is provided through Cisco Webex

Communication with Cisco Webex uses the H.264 codec for video and the OPUS codec for audio

Real-time media (voice, video, and screen sharing) is encrypted using the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP); end-to-end encryption uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128, AES 256, SHA1, SHA256, and RSA

Bandwidth Requirements

Bandwidth requirements

Minimum bandwidth: 720p30 from 768 Kbps, 1080p30 from 1.72 Mbps

Maximum bandwidth: Transmit: 4.3 Mbps, Receive: 10 Mbps

Minimum bandwidth: 720p30 from 768 kbps, 1080p30 from 1472 kbps

Maximum up to 6 Mbps point to point

Audio Features

Microphone array with intelligent voice tracking capabilities

High-quality 20-kHz audio

Acoustic echo cancellation

Automatic Gain Control (AGC)

Automatic noise reduction

Active lip synchronization

Presentation Capabilities

1 HDMI input for local presentation or sharing in meetings

Supports formats up to a maximum 4K (3840 x 2160) (HDMI)

Frame rate of 60 fps for up to 1080p and 30 fps for 2160p (HDMI)

Extended Display Identification Data (EDID)

Audio over HDMI

Live Video Resolutions (Encode/Decode) – Main Video & Presentation Sharing

Main video:

Up to 1920 x 1080@30 (HD1080p)

Presentation sharing:

Up to 1920 x 1080@30 (HD1080p)