AV in Education: Business School Trading Rooms Mirror Wall Street AV

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June 6, 2007 | A Penton Media Publication

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Business School Trading Rooms Mirror Wall Street AV

Global Nomads Group Launches "Project Uganda" with Polycom Video Systems

Upgraded Yamaha LC2 Plus Music Lab Offers Enhancements

Stereo Audio Goes the Distance with TV One-Task Cat-5 Extender

Extron Introduces the ISM 824 MultiSwitcher

New Digital Classroom Sound System

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Business School Trading Rooms Mirror Wall Street AV By Linda Seid Frembes

As Ansel Adams once said, "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." In the higher-education market, business school trading rooms offer the experience of a real-world financial services setting in a learning environment. Trading rooms often mirror the high-tech video and digital signage capabilities currently seen on Wall Street with the hopes that graduates exposed to this technology experience will move into successful careers in the financial services industry.

The huge popularity of trading rooms is a benefit to students, universities, and the AV integrators who specialize in creating those environments. Rise Vision of Shawnee, Kan., was founded in 1992 in a partnership with Reuters to provide real-time news and financial quotes on large LED wallboards to financial services trading rooms. "We have always specialized in large-format electronic signage. Historically, we worked with financial trading floors but, over time, we migrated our software platform to all the different digital signage uses," says Ryan Cahoy, vice president of Rise Vision. "As our traditional financial clients began giving back to the community and supporting higher learning, they started funding mock trading labs at business schools. It wasn't long before the digital signage expanded into message boards in the hallways across campus." more>>

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Global Nomads Group Launches "Project Uganda" with Polycom Video Systems

Global Nomads Group (GNG), an organization dedicated to fostering cross-cultural dialogue and understanding among youth, and Polycom recently launched Project Uganda. This project is a 10-part videoconferencing series connecting more than 25 schools throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to interact with students in Uganda over videoconferencing to increase awareness and understanding of Ugandan culture and examine the challenges youth face living in a conflict zone. Project Uganda is made possible through a challenge grant from Polycom, a new campaign to challenge corporations, individuals, and foundations to match Polycom's commitment to the program. more>>

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Upgraded Yamaha LC2 Plus Music Lab Offers Enhancements

Yamaha's new ready-made LC2 Plus Music Lab represents a breakthrough in educational and digital technology by offering several premium enhancements and by making previously optional items standard. New features on the model, which debuted at Winter NAMM, include Yamaha CM500 headset microphones, MIDI Illustrator software and intuitive installation and operation guides. more>>

Stereo Audio Goes the Distance with TV One-Task Cat-5 Extender

The popular Cat-5 series in the TV One-task line has added the 1T-VGAST-CAT-XL video conversion product. The new unit has similar capabilities as the 1T-VGA-CAT-XL but adds the ability to include either PC audio or external microphone audio in the Cat-5 signal. This unit can send both stereo audio and a 1280x1024 VGA resolution image to a maximum distance of 1,000ft. more>>

Extron Introduces the ISM 824 MultiSwitcher

Extron Electronics is pleased to introduce the ISM 824 MultiSwitcher, a unique modular matrix switcher that allows for simultaneous video/RGB scaling and wideband switching in a single, compact enclosure. It combines the powerful signal routing capabilities of an eighti-nput, eight-output, wideband matrix switcher with the versatility of four customizable outputs. The Extron ISM 824 can be equipped with any of the available scaling or scan conversion output boards for initial project requirements, and then upgraded at any time in the future with additional boards as system needs evolve and expand. It is ideal for applications such as boardrooms, auditoriums, and classrooms that require high-performance signal routing with flexible, onboard signal processing. more>>

From The Briefing Room

New Digital Classroom Sound System

Frontrow introduces the Frontrow Pro Digital—a classroom sound system the company believes will simplify daily use for teachers and decrease troubleshooting calls for technology staff. As the world's first such product to use digital signal processing and digital command and control, Pro Digital invisibly handles details that could be distracting or impossible for school staff to manage, such as suppressing feedback and optimizing power usage. Also thanks to the digital platform, teachers need touch only one button all year—a unique advantage in this category of technology meant to improve communication in the classroom. more>>

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