Microsoft Teams and AirMedia — Hybrid Collaboration with Just One Touch

By Crestron

The AirMedia Connect Adaptor looks pretty simple — but that belies its capabilities. The dongle appears a bit like an oversized hockey puck with a short, sturdy USB-C cable and an indicator light that lines the perimeter of the disc. While the dongle works with a variety of platforms, the coming rollout of the Microsoft-specific model has been especially buzzy news. There’s magic in that “puck.”

While AirMedia® wireless presentation and conferencing technology has been around for roughly a year now, this latest offering from Crestron is especially timely in the current state of “hybrid permanence” — most businesses have a blend of in-person and remote workers attending meetings large and small at any given moment. The same’s true for the classroom, too — hybrid learning is another example of that blend of inperson and remote collaboration.

Now that hybrid work is the new normal, different types of meeting spaces are appearing. People are looking for ways to meet and collaborate outside of the four walls of a meeting room. Areas like lounges or casual sitting areas are now commonly used as meeting points. BYOD can bring the meeting to those spaces where dedicated conferencing solutions aren’t always feasible. Solutions like AirMedia technology are especially handy for retrofitting traditional offices for the modern hybrid workforce, and it’s an incredibly rapid way to bring Microsoft Teams functionality to those spaces.