Cisco Board Pro is an all-in-one room device that provides everything you need for hybrid teamwork: it brings your local and remote teams together to collaborate in a connected digital workspace. Recognized with a Red Dot Design Award and a UC Award as “Best Meeting Room Product”, Board Pro is a purpose-built solution combining premium visual collaboration, video conferencing, ideation, and co-creation, allowing your teams to join video-first meetings, digitally whiteboard, wirelessly present, and share content.
Whether you run the native Cisco RoomOS experience for Webex-first video conferencing and advanced third-party video interoperability or configure the meeting board for the native Microsoft Teams Rooms application, the Board Pro is your perfect companion in any ideation or collaboration space. Featuring stunning video, built-in camera AI, a capacitive touch screen and spatial audio, the Cisco Board Pro is designed to bring incredible collaboration to small and medium-sized conference rooms and training rooms.
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Content sharing in a video meeting using the wall-mount Board Pro 55
Overview
In the hybrid workplace, teams need to work together both in the physical workplace and virtually, just as if everyone were in the same room. Cisco Board Pro was designed to enable the future of work by giving your workforce the power to communicate, create, collaborate, and capture ideas with a connected collaboration device that extends beyond the boundaries of the meeting room. Board Pro revolutionizes the way we work by combining key requirements for team collaboration and conferencing and connecting it to the cloud for frictionless meeting experiences and workflows. It’s a digital canvas, a video-first conferencing system, and a wireless presentation screen that allows your teams to draw, annotate, share, meet, and ideate, all in a single, beautifully designed device.
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Digital whiteboarding session in an open studio using the Board Pro 75
Available in 55-inch and 75-inch models, the Cisco Board Pro helps your teams collaborate in a variety of meeting spaces and connect with remote members to become more productive. Board Pro draws its power from the RoomOS platform for the native Webex experience and video interoperability, while also provides the flexibility to run the device on Microsoft Teams Rooms.
At the same time, Board Pro brings you optionality by seamlessly working together with your most common third-party meeting apps and productivity tools without the need to switch between devices and solutions. It can securely work with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and other external meeting solutions with the same best-of-breed experience via one-button-to- push web apps powered by unparalleled interoperability behind the scenes to take the stress out of getting connected. More exclusively, it allows you to effortlessly pair your laptop with Cisco Board Pro, extending your portable device into a large studio and bringing your go-to applications to life on an intuitive touchscreen display while leveraging advanced room, camera, and collaboration intelligence.
The solution securely connects to your virtual teams through the Webex cloud service, via your Webex App or Webex App-enabled devices, so you can create a truly integrated and seamless collaboration environment. Register the touch board, either on your premises or to the Webex cloud service to store everything created on Board Pro directly in the cloud. You can then associate it to a virtual Webex App space so your team can stay connected and get work done anywhere.
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Cisco Board Pro deployed in a small meeting room, running the native Microsoft Teams Rooms experience
Cisco Board Pro features and benefits
The Cisco Board Pro is a fully self-contained system on a high-resolution 4k LCD screen. With built-in, dual 4k cameras, embedded microphone array, and a capacitive touch interface, the board brings intelligence, style, and usability to small-to-large meeting rooms.
Cisco Board Pro was built to power hybrid teamwork: high-quality, AI-powered meetings, consistent experiences, open integrations, and unified management were added to transform meeting spaces of all sizes in a simple way. With Board Pro, your team can experience smart meetings, best-of-breed visual collaboration, and robust room, device, and software integrations. This level of feature innovation and premium experience can now be brought to every room and every team with a single, integrated unit. It is a purpose-built device that seamlessly supports:
● Multi-platform video collaboration - Unlike other collaboration displays, Board Pro is designed to deliver a collaboration experience that replicates in-person meetings, supporting any meeting platform. With high-quality, AI-powered video and audio, it enables inclusive and intelligent hybrid video conferencing to build connection and digital proximity among dispersed teams.
● Visual collaboration – Empower your teams to generate ideas or problem-solve. The digital whiteboard lets teams brainstorm, draw, use stickies, and annotate in a freeform fashion on an infinite canvas. Use two dedicated styli and touch-based pinch and zoom for details and precision.
● Continuous collaboration - Every session is stored in a Webex space so you never lose an idea. Work can continue across time zones and teams can add to it any time. Share ideas and collaborate across distances without the fear of losing your work.
● Local collaboration – Pair the device with your laptop, share wirelessly, and annotate on any content. Go from ideate, to create, to iterate—using one capacitive touchscreen.
● Agile workflows - Agile teams can quickly access their preferred project management apps and collaboration tools through integrated web apps and draw, annotate, or share ideas seamlessly.
● Hybrid education – Teachers can instruct in-room and remote students with the digital whiteboard, where files are saved and can be shared with the entire class after the session. Bring in experts from around the world to share their knowledge with students.
● Digital signage – Cisco Board Pro allows you to show custom content with the aim to provide information that is important to the workforce and guests, including upcoming town hall dates, company calendars, safety guidelines, and critical alerts in open spaces, hallways, and lobby areas.
