BYOM — Bring Your Own Meeting
BYOM allows a room's AV infrastructure (camera, microphone, speakers, display) to be used by a video conference running on the user's personal laptop, bridging the gap between dedicated room codecs and unmanaged BYOD rooms.
DSP — Digital Signal Processing
Real-time digital manipulation of audio signals using algorithms running on dedicated processor hardware, enabling mixing, routing, EQ, dynamics, and conferencing functions in AV systems.
MTR — Meeting Transformation Room
Premium hybrid collaboration spaces with certified hardware, AI-driven audio/video, and deep UCC platform integration for Teams, Zoom, and Webex.
PoE — Power over Ethernet
PoE delivers DC power over Cat cable alongside network data, eliminating separate power supplies for IP cameras, VoIP phones, wireless APs, HDBaseT receivers, and AV control devices.
PTZ — Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera
Motorized camera with independent pan, tilt, and optical zoom motors for remote framing control in conference rooms, lecture halls, and broadcast studios.
RS-232 — Serial Control Interface
RS-232 is the most common wired control interface in AV — used to control displays, projectors, PTZ cameras, and DSPs from control processors via simple ASCII or binary command strings.
SIP — Session Initiation Protocol
SIP is the signaling protocol for VoIP and video conferencing — understanding SIP is essential for integrating telephone interfaces, paging systems, and SIP-based video conferencing endpoints with AV systems.
UCC — Unified Communications and Collaboration
Integrated platforms combining video conferencing, voice, messaging, and content sharing for seamless hybrid communication — Teams, Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet.
VISCA — Video System Control Architecture
VISCA is the dominant PTZ camera control protocol — a binary command set sent over RS-232 or UDP/TCP that commands pan, tilt, zoom, focus, iris, and preset recall on virtually every professional PTZ camera.