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
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
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.