{"id":12720,"date":"2019-06-12T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=12720"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:28:47","slug":"sennheiser-teamconnect-ceiling-lands-st-johns-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/unified-communications\/sennheiser-teamconnect-ceiling-lands-st-johns-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling Lands St. John’s University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Classrooms and enterprise meeting rooms have a lot in common so when St. John chose Sennheiser\u2019s TeamConnect Ceiling conferencing solution, we were intrigued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we look at an AV solution, it is meant to facilitate communication, whether inside or outside of the classroom,\u201d says Eric Alvarado, Director of Academic Technology, St. John\u2019s University.  \u201cTeaching is at the point where the traditional walls of a classroom are no longer a limitation; so, our spaces have to perform and be flexible.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before settling on the TeamConnect Ceiling solution, St. John\u2019s had already been utilizing Sennheiser wireless microphones across its campus. \u201cWe started installing the wireless mics in Manhattan around 2013 and we probably have well over 300 wireless microphones from Sennheiser at this point,\u201d explains Salvatore Frucci, Audiovisual Systems Engineer, St. John\u2019s University. \u201cI met our Sennheiser sales representative, Tom Conte, at InfoComm in 2015 and we set up time to demo the TeamConnect Ceiling system, and it was quite impressive. This was the catalyst that started the process of us installing them here on the campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe great thing about TeamConnect is that it really follows your voice around the room with the beamforming technology,\u201d Frucci continues. \u201cThis feature caught our attention pretty quick, and as we started deploying them, the difference in intelligibility was night and day.\u201d Currently, St. John\u2019s has TeamConnect Ceiling units in four locations: its St. Augustine Faculty Development Classroom has two of them in one of its larger spaces, and three other units are located in conference rooms across the University\u2019s main campus in Queens <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\u201cWe are using Control Cockpit to remotely check the battery levels of our microphones, as well as frequency placement of our wireless mics,\u201d says Frucci. \u201cWe have 80 rooms in one building, so you have to be very careful with frequency assignments. Control Cockpit helps us manage this and ensure that all our frequencies are aligned so we don\u2019t have any performance issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With TeamConnect Ceiling up and running, and as the University explores possibilities of rolling it out in other locations, Sennheiser\u2019s latest conferencing solution is helping St. John\u2019s stay at the cutting edge of learning communication. \u201cFor us, the notion is that everything has to be consistent from classroom to classroom,\u201d concludes Alvarado. \u201cIt makes the user experience more flexible and a lot easier. Also, the number of support calls have fallen off the table because it just works.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have to admit the slick look of these tiles and great technology make them a compelling choice for conferencing in many facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Classrooms and enterprise meeting rooms have a lot in common so when St. John chose Sennheiser\u2019s TeamConnect Ceiling conferencing solution, we were intrigued. \u201cWhen we look at an AV solution, it is meant to facilitate communication, whether inside or outside of the classroom,\u201d says Eric Alvarado, Director of Academic Technology, St. John\u2019s University.  \u201cTeaching is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2061,1813,2062,2027,1825],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12724,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions\/12724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}