Room Systems

Cisco Room Kit EQ

  • Microsoft Teams Certified
Technical details

Platform compatibility

  • RoomOS 11.1.2 and later (for native Webex meetings and video interoperability for Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet)
  • Microsoft Teams Rooms (coming soon – also featuring native Webex meetings and other third-party meetings via direct guest join)

Available solutions

  • Cisco Room Kit EQ (featuring the Cisco Quad Camera)
  • Cisco Room Kit EQ PTZ 4K (featuring the Cisco PTZ 4K Camera)
  • Cisco Codec EQ Standalone

Default components in the Cisco Room Kit EQ bundle

  • Cisco Codec EQ
  • Cisco Quad Camera
  • Wall mount for Quad Camera
  • Power adapter
  • Ethernet cable

Optional hardware components

  • Cisco PTZ 4K Camera
  • Cisco Room Navigator table-stand touch control unit
  • Cisco Room Navigator wall-mount touch control unit
  • Cisco Table Microphone
  • Cisco Ceiling Microphone
  • Cisco Microphone Array
  • Wall mount for Cisco Codec EQ
  • Rack ears for Cisco Codec EQ
  • Cisco USB-C Cable with Laptop Charging
  • Cisco Multi-head Cable 4K
  • Network cable
  • Other cable and peripheral options

Camera overview (Quad Camera)

  • 4x 20MP CMOS image sensors with machine intelligent switching
  • The camera generates frames from the 4 sensors simultaneously to provide a single HD output at 1080p
  • Support up to 60 fps
  • 1/1.7 CMOS
  • 5x zoom
  • f/2.0 aperture
  • 83° horizontal field of view on wide lens
  • 50° horizontal field of view on 3 tele-lenses
  • Automatic group framing (audio + face detect)
  • Speaker tracking
  • Intelligent people framing for equitable views
  • 5056 x 3888 pixel resolution
  • Auto focus, brightness, and white balance
  • Focus distance 1 m to infinity

Bandwidth

  • Up to 6 Mbps point-to-point

Minimum bandwidth for resolution/frame rate

  • 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps from 2560 kbps

Firewall traversal

  • Cisco Expressway™ technology
  • H.460.18, H.460.19 firewall traversal

Video standards

  • H.264, H.265, and H.263

Video inputs

  • 1x USB-C input supports formats up to maximum 3840 x 2160 at 30 fps with USB-C port has 3A charging capability
  • 3x HDMI inputs support formats up to maximum 3840 x 2160 at 30 fps including 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps
  • Extended Display Identification Data (EDID)
  • Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) 2.0

Video outputs

  • 3x HDMI outputs support formats up to 3840 x 2160 at 60 fps
  • Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) 2.0

Encode and decode

  • Main video: 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps
  • Presentation channel: 3840 x 2160 at 15 fps

Audio standards

  • G.711, G.722, G.722.1, G.729, AAC-LD, and Opus

Audio features

  • High-quality 24kHz audio
  • Prepared for inductive loop (line out)
  • Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC)
  • Active Lip Synchronization
  • AI-Powered, Adaptive Noise Removal
  • Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
  • Full Duplex
  • Full-Band Audio
  • Self-Hear
  • Ultrasound Technology

Audio inputs

  • 3x external microphones via 4-pin mini-jack audio input
  • Embedded audio on 3 HDMI inputs and one USB-c input
  • Audio over IP using the Cisco Microphone Array: Extension option to add up to 8 microphones with AV integrator package (option key)

Audio outputs

  • 1 line out mini-jack (stereo) (Codec EQ)
  • 1 RCA output for subwoofer (Quad Camera)
  • Embedded audio on all HDMI output
  • HDMI input #1 supports Audio Return Channel (ARC): Audio output to Quad Camera

Loudspeakers (Quad Camera)

  • High-quality loudspeaker system with a single full-range driver and dual low-frequency drivers
  • Frequency response: 100Hz to 20kHz
  • Max output level: SPL 90dB

Camera modes (Quad Camera)

  • Group view: Automatically detects meeting participants and provides ideal group framing for the best view
  • Speaker view: Uses a dedicated, built-in microphone array to detect and provide a prominent view for the active speaker
  • Frames: Captures a condensed view of in-room participants and frames them individually or in smaller groups for more equitable meetings, on Webex and when using third-party meetings

Video stream layouts

  • Supporting available Webex video stream layouts and meeting features, including focus, grid, prominent, stack, and overlay
  • People Focus helps create an optimized view of every participant in Webex meetings via smart cropping to remove excess real estate

Speaker tracking (Quad Camera)

  • 8-element microphone array for accurate speaker tracking
  • Quad Camera can support group framing and intelligent people framing feature with 5x zoom capability
  • For an optimal speaker-tracking experience for people joining remotely, it is recommended that the furthest in-room participant is located within less than 9 meters from the video device. Please note that the best overview (automatic group framing) camera mode can support an extended distance from the Quad Camera.

Presenter tracking (PTZ 4K Camera)

  • AI-powered face and upper-body detection capability
  • Camera automatically follows the active presenter within a defined zone and helps ensure an optimized view

Content stream

  • H.239 (H.323) dual stream
  • Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) (SIP) dual stream
  • Support resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 15 fps and 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps

Wireless sharing

  • Webex App (up to 3840 x 2160 at 7.5 fps)
  • Cisco Intelligent Proximity client (up to 1920 x 1080 at 3 fps)
  • Miracast (1920 x 1080 at 30 fps) – Not available on non-radio version. Available in cloud-registered and Webex Edge for Devices deployments.
  • Apple AirPlay wireless sharing:
    - Screen mirroring up to 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps
    - Extended desktop (Mac only) - up to 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps
    - Video streaming from iPhone and iPad up to 3840 x 2160 at 30 fps
    - Video streaming from Mac (Safari) up to 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps

MultiSite features (embedded multipoint) (optional upgrade)

  • Adaptive SIP/H.323 MultiSite:
    - 3-way resolution up to 1080p30 plus content up to 4Kp15
    - 4-way resolution up to 720p30 plus content up to 4Kp15
    - 5-way resolution up to 720p30 plus content up to 4Kp15
  • Full individual audio and video transcoding
  • H.323/SIP/VoIP in the same conference
  • Support for presentation (H.239/BFCP) from any participant at resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 15 fps
  • Best Impression (automatic continuous presence layouts)
  • Encryption and dual stream from any site

Protocols

  • H.323
  • SIP
  • Webex
  • WebRTC
  • ISDN PRI/BRI using the optional ISDN Link

Embedded encryption

  • H.323 and SIP point-to-point
  • Standards-based: H.235 v3 and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  • Automatic key generation and exchange

IP network features

  • DNS lookup for service configuration
  • Differentiated services (Quality of Service [QoS])
  • IP-adaptive bandwidth management (including flow control)
  • Automatic gatekeeper discovery
  • Dynamic playout and lip-sync buffering
  • H.245 Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tones in H.323
  • RFC 4733 DTMF tones in SIP
  • Date and time support using Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) dialing
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  • 802.1X network authentication
  • 802.1Q Virtual LAN
  • 802.1p [QoS and Class of Service (CoS)]
  • Cisco Media Assure and ClearPath, including packet loss-based downspeeding

Call control

  • Native registration on Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
    - Requires CUCM version 12.5 or later with device pack for Room Kit EQ
  • Native registration with Cisco Expressway
  • Webex
  • Third-party H.323 Gatekeepers and standards-based SIP proxies

IPv6 network support

  • Single call stack support for both H.323 and SIP
  • Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 for DHCP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, DiffServ
  • Support for both static and automatic IP configuration (stateless address auto configuration)

Security features

  • Secure management using HTTPS and SSH protocols
  • End-to-end encryption for calls and meetings on Webex
  • Standards-based media encryption on all back-ends (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol [SRTP], using AES-128-GCM or AES-256-GCM)
  • Password protection to access administration available on Room Navigator controller
  • Network settings protection

Certificate management

  • Certificate Authority Proxy Function (CAPF) support for additional security
  • Manufacturer-Installed Certificates (MIC)
  • Locally Significant Certificates (LSC)
  • X.509 Digital Certificates (DER encoded binary); both DER and Base-64 formats are acceptable for the client and server certificates; certificates with a key size of 1024, 2048, and 4096 are supported

Other interfaces

  • 4x USB 3.0 ports, 1.5A charging capability per port for external USB microphones and future integrations
  • Micro USB port
  • Factory reset pinhole

Network interfaces (Codec EQ)

  • Ethernet (RJ-45) 10/100/1000 for LAN
  • 4x PoE++ (802.3.bt) Ethernet (RJ-45) 10/100/1000 with a total power budget of 90W for
    - Camera control
    - Room Navigator touch controller
    - PoE room peripherals (microphones including the Cisco Microphone Array
  • Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz also supported for LAN - not available in non-radio versions; Wi-Fi 6E support coming soon
  • 2x2 Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO)

Power supplies (2)

  • 100 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
  • Average 20 W
  • Quad camera must be used with power supply FSP FSP070-AHAN2 or AcBel ADF019.

Operating temperature and humidity

  • 0°C to 35°C (32°F to 95°F) ambient temperature
  • 10% to 90% Relative Humidity (RH)

Storage and transport temperature

  • 20°C to 60°C (-4°F to 140°F) at RH 10% to 90% (noncondensing)

Locking mechanism

  • Kensington security lock

Language support

  • Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, US English, UK English, Catalonian, Spanish, Latin-American Spanish, Finnish, French, Canadian French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian

Form factor

  • Cisco Quad Camera color options in First Light and Carbon Black (coming soon)
  • The Quad Camera supports flexible mounting on the wall or on the screen, either above or underneath the screen(s).
  • Codec EQ supports wall mounting, rack ear mounting, and custom placement as a free-standing unit.
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