Polycom CX5000 Integration Guide

Why Use the Polycom CX5000?
The Polycom CX5000 provides many advantages:
• Adds a compelling and engaging group video experience to a Live Meeting session or to an
Office Communicator conversation.
• Active speaker tracking and 360-degree views engage meeting participants ensures that the
active speaker is always centered in the active speaker window. Nobody has to guess who is
speaking. A panoramic view is shared with all Live Meeting participants.
• Plug and play simplicity. Once OCS or Live Meeting is deployed, there is no other software or
drivers that need to be installed.
• The ability to include participants who are not within the organization’s boundaries, or the
managed video environment. Anybody with a PC can download the Live Meeting client and view
the meeting. With a webcam or CX5000, they can participate. Even without a Windows-based
PC, Live Meeting lets users participate via a web client. With Office Communicator, any properly
federated organizations may share voice and video that extends beyond a single closed
organization.
• Minimal administrative and IT oversight. Once Live Meeting or Office Communications Server is
deployed users with Live Meeting accounts or Office Communications Server access can be
essentially self-sufficient in setting up conferences and using the CX5000.
• The ability to record synchronized audio, video and content during a meeting or training session.
Live Meeting allows entire meetings to be recorded including synchronized panoramic CX5000
video, audio and content for later retrieval and review. Playback uses simple VCR-style controls.
Polycom CX5000 Application Environment
As a USB collaboration device, the CX5000 must be used with an appropriate PC client application in all
cases. It can be used with two different client applications:
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
Live Meeting
When the CX5000 is used with Live Meeting 2007, it is plugged into a PC that is running a Live Meeting
client console. Live Meeting is an online meeting space that allows all participants to share audio, video
and content. Each participant in a Live Meeting session gains access to the session through his own Live
Meeting client console. In this application, all of the Live Meeting participants can receive and view the
360 degree panoramic video from the CX5000, along with the active speaker window
Live Meeting sessions can be set up in two ways:
• Using the hosted Live Meeting service outside the organization.
• Using the conferencing facilities provided by the enterprise’s Office Communications Server
system.
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Polycom CX5000 Specifications

General

Dimensions (WxDxH)	350 x 350 x 360 mm
Networking features	Fast Ethernet
Maximum frame rate	15 fps
ITU-supported standards	ITU-T P.300
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 60 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 40 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	15 - 85 %
USB 2.0 ports quantity	2
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	1

Weight and Dimensions

Weight	3150 g