Room Bar Pro

An all-in-one video bar appliance for medium rooms, with dual 4K cameras (112° and 70° FOV) and 5x ePTZ, integrated speakers, an 8-element beamforming mic array, AI-capabilities like people framing and noise removal, and native support for Cisco Rooms and Microsoft Teams.

Cisco - Room Bar

List Price: US $8,295

(Cisco Suggested Resale Price with touch controller)

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Room Sizes

Medium
Medium
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Operating Modes

USB / BYOD
Other OS (Appliance)
USB / BYOD
Other OS (Appliance)
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Certifications

Microsoft
Cisco
Microsoft
Cisco
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Video AI Features

Room/Group Framing
Speaker Tracking
People Framing
Cinematic Mode
Room/Group Framing
Speaker Tracking
People Framing
Cinematic Mode

Cisco Room Bar Pro is an intelligent video bar with a dual camera system optimized to capture participants seated away from the front of the room, built-in speakers and microphones tuned for high-fidelity sound, an AI computing engine, and versatile connectivity options. It uses two image sensors to focus on multiple subjects in the room at once and capture everyone in high quality.

Room Bar Pro is available in First Light and Carbon Black, supports up to three displays, a touch display, external cameras, conferencing microphones, and other room peripherals.

Room Bar Pro supports the native Cisco Rooms or Microsoft Teams Rooms experiences, and also interoperability with Zoom and Google. It offers USB passthrough connectivity to bring single-cable BYOD with software-client-based meetings on almost any platform, and rich content sharing via cable or wirelessly.

Room Bar Pro comes with a Room Navigator touch controller and can be remotely managed, accessed, and monitored in the cloud with the Webex Control Hub admin portal.

Room Bar Pro is available starting at $5,499 for Webex subscribers.

Video Features

--- Basic Video Features ---
# of Displays 3
# of Cameras 2
Camera Specifications 1 x 48 MP, 112° HFOV (wide) lens
1 x 48 MP, 70° HFOV (tele) lens
5x ePTZ (10x with Virtual Lens technology)

Comments:

Dual camera system provides optimal people framing up to 7m (23 ft) from the device or up to 8m (26 ft) in Speaker view at 1080p resolution.

Auto rotation of the image when the video bar is mounted upside down.

Virtual meeting zone can be configured to limit camera framing within predefined boundaries.

Supports connectivity with a third-party touch displays.

--- External Camera Support ---
Ext. Camera - Stand-Alone 1 x Cisco PTZ 4K Camera, or Cisco Verified third-party tracking camera or USB content camera
Ext. Camera - 360 Camera N/A

Comments:

Supports dynamic presenter tracking when connected to a Cisco PTZ 4K Camera.



Audio Features

--- Basic Audio Features ---
# of Microphones 16
Voice Pickup Range 4m (13 ft)
# of Speakers 3

Comments:

Pickup range can be extended by using multiple external microphones.

--- Audio / Noise Processing ---
Audio Processing
Echo Cancellation (AEC)
Full-Duplex Audio
Voice Leveling - Outgoing
Voice Leveling - Incoming
De-Reverberation
Stereo Sound
Spatial Audio (3D)
Noise Cancellation
Voice Activity Detection
Basic Noise Suppression
AI Noise Suppression

Comments:

--- External Audio System Support ---
Ext. Audio System Support Up to 8 Cisco IP Microphones or up to 2 Cisco Analog Microphones

Support for third-party DSPs, USB Microphones, analog microphones, or networked IP microphones via AES67.


Device Controllers

Touch Controllers Cisco Room Navigator touch panel

Comments:

Cisco Room Navigator is a 10-inch, platform-independent touch display that lets meeting room participants control their Cisco collaboration devices, apply video conference and room controls, and run third-party applications.

Cisco Room Navigator can be deployed as a native RoomOS device, configured as a Microsoft Teams Rooms controller, or set up in web app mode to host other workspace apps.



Vendor Management Platform

Vendor Mgmt Platform Webex Control Hub

Comments:

Webex Control Hub is a centralized, cloud-based management platform for Cisco’s collaboration products and services. Control Hub provides administrators with a single pane of glass to manage Webex users and services, collaboration devices (such as video bars), and contact center solutions.

From a device perspective, the key features of Control Hub include unified user and device management (including Cisco devices and accessories, and third-party peripherals), remote device access, diagnostics, and workspace insights around room utilization and video bar technology adoption trends.

Webex Control Hub offers a range of Cisco workplace technology integrations, including Cisco ThousandEyes, Cisco Spaces, and Cisco Meraki.



Additional Features

Additional Features
SIP / H.323 Video Calling (within video bar)
Supports Touch Display as UI / Controller
Networked Audio (e.g., Dante, AES67)
Wireless Presentation
Multi-Stream to Calling Service
People Counting
Environmental Sensors
Other (See Comments)

Comments:

Ultrasound technology automatically activates the system when a person walks into the room and then recognizes them through their mobile device.

Wireless presentation using Webex, Miracast, Apple AirPlay, or Microsoft Teams Cast when running MTR.

Built-in device sensors are combined with temperature, humidity, and air quality sensors in the Room Navigator touch controller.

Supports networked IP microphones via AES67.

This system can send multiple video streams (e.g., a tight shot of the active speaker and a wide shot of the room) to Webex simultaneously.



Warranty and Support Options

--- Basic Warranty ---
Basic Warranty (Years) 90 days

Comments:

Includes 90 days of hardware warranty and 90 days of Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support during local business hours. Normally, replacement parts will be shipped with 10 working days after receiving an RMA request.

--- Other Support Options ---

Cisco SmartNet extends the hardware warranty to 1, 3 or 5-year terms.

Cisco Technical Services offers additional support beyond the basic warranty, including access to Cisco TAC, software updates, and extended hardware replacement coverage.



Additional Information

Cisco Room Bar Pro can be configured as a native Cisco Rooms device or a native Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) device.

While in Cisco Rooms mode, the system supports the native Webex Meetings experience, can join Microsoft Teams meetings (using Cisco’s CVI service or WebRTC), Google Meet meetings (using WebRTC), and Zoom meetings (using Zoom CRC). While in this mode, the system can be managed by Webex Control Hub.

While in Microsoft Teams Rooms mode, the system supports native MTR meetings, can join Webex meetings natively (if registered to Webex Control Hub) or using WebRTC, can join Zoom meetings using Zoom CRC, and can register to and be managed by both Webex Control Hub and the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal.

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