Ashton Bentley, a Kramer company, has launched its ABMX Display Mount range, expanding its portfolio of meeting room solutions for Cisco collaboration technology. The range is designed to provide a structured upgrade path for organisations moving from legacy Cisco MX Series deployments to next-generation collaboration spaces built around Cisco Room Bar and Cisco Room Kits.
ABMX systems are based on Ashton Bentley’s Cisco Certified Display Mount Chassis platform, available in single and dual display configurations supporting displays from 43in to 115in. The systems are compatible with Cisco Room Bar, Room Bar Pro, Room Kit EQ and Quad Camera, and include integrated mounting brackets, cable management, region-specific power distribution and magnetic front panels for service access. The tool-less systems are intended to be assembled in hours without structural building work, reducing deployment time and complexity compared with traditional AV installations.
The architecture supports floor-to-wall, freestanding and mobile configurations, with structural load carried by the floor rather than the wall, allowing deployment in glass-walled offices, listed buildings and other environments where wall loading is restricted.
The platform is also approved for Cisco deployments with Microsoft Teams Rooms in accordance with Microsoft’s Express Install solution guidelines. The latest Cisco Room devices, based on RoomOS 27, support Webex, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet environments. Optional AV infrastructure is available through Ashton Bentley’s TX2/DX2 two-box system, which replaces traditional rack-based AV equipment with a simplified architecture supporting uncompressed 4K video, USB-C and HDMI extension, BYOD connectivity and integration with the Cisco Room Navigator.
Tom Richards, senior director of strategy and GTM at Cisco, said: “Our collaboration with Ashton Bentley enables enterprises to manage upgrades to their collaboration investments in a scalable way. Customers with old, end-of-support TelePresence MX systems now have a simple and repeatable upgrade path to the latest Cisco Room systems that provide agentic AI powered collaboration experiences, intelligent device management tools, actionable workplace analytics, and up-to-date, multi-layered enterprise security.”
Roger McArdell, chief technical officer at Ashton Bentley, said: “Our certified mounting solution established a new level of engineering alignment with Cisco. We are extending that collaboration further by delivering a globally consistent platform that removes much of the traditional complexity of AV upgrades.”
Tony Leedham, chief commercial officer at Ashton Bentley, added: “Together with Cisco, we’re redefining how organisations approach collaboration upgrades. By enabling partners to package displays, Cisco Room Bars and Kits, and AV infrastructure within a modular platform, we’re helping establish a new benchmark for meeting room standardisation.”
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