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Wireless Display

ScreenBeam Special Edition

by Brian Underdahl


Wireless Display For Dummies®, ScreenBeam Special Edition

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Introduction 1


Introduction

The world has become a highly mobile, fast-paced, and con-nected place where sharing information quickly and easily is vital. People and organizations need the ability to connect

to displays and projectors in meeting rooms and classrooms seamlessly. Mission-critical work depends on it. Teachers need to present lessons and interact with their students in time-limited class periods. Business professionals must be able to share reports, conduct sales presentations, and collaborate on the fly in a seamless, professional manner, all without being held back by technical limitations and cable connectivity problems.

Business meetings, like classrooms, run on content. A great meeting leader focuses participants’ attention on the topic and provides everyone with the information they need to better under-stand what they are saying. Today, content is no longer a canned bunch of printed slides, but rather can be full multimedia shows shown on large displays or projected through a digital projector.

Unfortunately, the transition to digital has sometimes been a bit of a hassle with incompatible ports, incorrect or missing cables and adapters, and time wasted while the audience impatiently waits for things to begin. Wireless display technology comes to the rescue by eliminating these issues and making digital con-tent presentation easy and efficient. And, wireless display has no content restrictions and no limitations like some media players. If you can see it on the small screen, you can see it on the large one. Wireless display is a true display, not just a way to show slides.

Wireless display solves the lost productivity problem and makes a big difference to the bottom line. But more importantly, it frees participants from the physical limitations of cables, allowing them complete mobility and interaction. Now they have the free-dom to connect, project, display, and collaborate from anywhere in the room. Productivity can soar!

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About This BookWireless Display For Dummies, ScreenBeam Special Edition, dis-cusses how wireless display technology can help your organization by making life a lot simpler for business leaders, educators, sales people, and other presenters. This book shows you how standards-based solutions can save money and reduce wasted time. It helps you see how the right technology can open doors by making it pos-sible to share information effectively without requiring presenters to even worry about complex and difficult connections. In short, this book shows you how to simplify a common task so you can get down to business!

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Understanding Wireless Display

Sales presentations, classroom talks, seminars, and lectures are just a few of the many ways that people present infor-mation to groups of people. One of the most effective tools

used by these various presenters is a large display or screen where the information can be shown to a number of people clearly. But using such a display has often been an exercise in frustration caused by numerous connection issues.

This chapter shows you how wireless display technology can greatly reduce or even eliminate the problems involved in giv-ing a presentation to a group of people. By using standards-based wireless display equipment, your organization can increase pro-ductivity, enable collaboration and innovation, and improve effi-ciency, thus solving the problems of wired displays.

Seeing What Wireless Display Can DoHow many times have you attended a meeting where there was a ten-minute (or longer) delay while the presenter tried to get the presentation up and running at the front of the room? You had to sit there as people rushed around trying to find the right cable,

Chapter 1

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» Introducing wireless display

» Seeing why standards are important



the correct adapter, or the proper display setting to make the presentation appear on the screen. Unfortunately, it’s a scenario that’s repeated far too often, even in organizations with dedicated conference room staffs (and it’s even worse when no one under-stands the equipment).

The wired display problemThe confusion and wasted time isn’t going to go away any time soon if you continue to rely upon making wired connections to front-of- the-room displays. The reason is simple: There are too many vari-ables in wired connection options. A display might require a VGA, DVI, DP, HDMI, or some other type of connection. But your presenter probably doesn’t have the required connection option on his or her laptop, tablet, or smartphone. And even if the presenter somehow manages to have the correct type of connector, the required cable will likely be missing. No wonder meetings are delayed!

As devices become thinner and lighter, manufacturers are elimi-nating many display ports and other physical connectors. In some cases a wired connection may simply not be possible, no mat-ter which cables and adapters you have available. Some newer devices, of course, have multi-function ports such as Thunderbolt or USB-C, which is capable of outputting to a display if you have the correct adapter.

Wireless display to the rescueFortunately, there’s some good news. Modern wireless display technology enables users to wirelessly extend or mirror con-tent from a smartphone, laptop, or tablet to a display or projec-tor without special cables or connectors. You don’t have to worry about whether a presenter’s device has a VGA, DP, or even an HDMI port. Lost cables are a thing of the past because wireless display frees users from the constraints of a wired world. Meet-ings can start on time and your people can go back to being pro-ductive. Isn’t that important to your bottom line?

Understanding the Importance of Standards

Solving business challenges requires understanding that you need business-class solutions rather than consumer-grade mashups.

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You need to be able to rely upon the equipment to deliver lag-free performance, avoid causing or being affected by Wi-Fi inter-ference, offer enterprise-level management and security, and be reliable so that you aren’t wasting time trying to support flaky installations.

Above all, you need a solution that’s designed for easy, intuitive operation and that’s compatible across a broad range of both user hardware and displays. One of the best ways to insure that your solution meets all these requirements is to make sure it complies with an accepted international standard such as Wi-Fi Miracast, which has broad support across global equipment manufacturers and vendors.

Miracast is the global standard for wireless display ratified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. It’s an industry-wide technology solution that works across brands and enables devices to immediately con-nect wirelessly — eliminating the need for complex configuration settings. Miracast is also designed for high performance and low latency to improve your results. See www.wi-fi.org/discover- wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-miracast for more information.

Miracast wireless connections are peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connec-tions between devices, meaning they don’t use your Wi-Fi net-work. This direct, in-room connection means that you don’t need a network connection, your organization’s network isn’t over-loaded with traffic, and the connections are fast and secure.

Avoiding proprietary problemsProprietary solutions that aren’t based on global standards pres-ent many problems you’ll want to avoid. For example, some such solutions require special hardware for transmission, use propri-etary radios that may reduce your organization’s Wi-Fi perfor-mance, or even force users to install and run applications that have limited compatibility across hardware brands and models.

Such proprietary solutions put your organization at risk because you’re at the mercy of a single vendor with an option that may not be supported in the future and probably won’t work on a broad range of user equipment. And good luck getting the necessary applications when users upgrade to newer hardware or operating systems!

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Wireless display versus consumer media playersAt first glance, it might seem as though certain consumer-level devices such as Apple TV and Google Chromecast could work as wireless display solutions. Unfortunately, these devices are just simple media players encumbered with many limitations that make them unsuitable for real business applications. For exam-ple, these types of devices have limitations such as:

» Limited compatibility: Companies such as Apple often ignore devices made by other companies, so you’ll find little or no support for smartphones, laptops, or tablets of other brands.

» Poor security: Because these devices are intended for home use, no effort to include enterprise-level security features has been made.

» No management features: You’ll find none of the business management features you need to control devices centrally.

» Network interference: These consumer devices may not cooperate well with the rest of your networked equipment.

» Lack of room to grow and scale: Commercial devices need to be designed to scale and grow as new services and features are added.

Miracast wireless display technology is natively supported across a broad range of device types including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Android 4.2 and later. In addition, Windows 7 devices can also take advantage of the benefits of wireless display with the addi-tion of a Miracast-enabled USB dongle.

Some Miracast receivers, such as the Actiontec ScreenBeam 960, offer a video pass-through so that legacy and proprietary laptops and tablets can still connect using a wired connection. Users of these legacy devices won’t enjoy the benefits of a wireless con-nection, but they will still be able to use their device to make a presentation.

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Seeing Who Uses Wireless Display

Lots of people have already discovered the benefits of using wireless display technology. They know that the increased productivity, ease of use, and freedom associated with wire-

less display are great paybacks.

This chapter shows you how people and organizations are using wireless display to be more competitive, efficient, and forward thinking.

Understanding Business SolutionsIn business, wasted time costs money. Meetings and presenta-tions are a big part of the typical business day, so it’s easy to see how having a bunch of employees or executives sitting around waiting while someone tries to get a device connected to a display can be a big, unnecessary expense. In large organizations, that sort of scenario might be repeated several times every day.

Chapter 2

IN THIS CHAPTER

» Using wireless display for business applications

» Enhancing education with wireless display

» Helping mobile workers be more productive



A financial institutionOne of Europe’s largest financial institutions understood the magnitude of the problem and decided to take action. The solu-tion the company sought would:

» Have an active virtual private network connection to protect online data

» Be easy to manage

» Provide transparency and control across multiple locations

The institution looked at all the options and performed an analysis of their functionality, compatibility, and security features. The company was introduced to the Actiontec ScreenBeam 750 through a recommendation from a partner company. After the solution was installed, the transformation team immediately recognized that it was fulfilling the company’s needs very well. The ScreenBeam 750 was easy to configure and deploy, and provided enterprise-grade manageability with the built-in ScreenBeam Central Management System (CMS). From the comfort of a control room, the IT department was able to group receivers by location, push out firmware updates and security settings, and change group policies.

Since implementation, the company’s meeting dynamics have changed drastically. More productive and interactive, meetings with wireless display create a more collaborative environment, which has led to closer internal relationships between teams and across divisions. Presenters can be switched at the click of a but-ton so others can share their ideas with the rest of the room.

Miracast wireless display technology is built into Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 as well as Android 4.2 and later, so most Wi-Fi- enabled devices that come pre-loaded with one of these operating systems can take advantage of a wireless capable display.

A Fortune 50 giantAnother company that recognized the need to boost meeting pro-ductivity with wireless display was one with more than 2,500 conference rooms hosting up to 100,000 meetings a week. The company partnered with Actiontec, the co-engineering partner with Microsoft for wireless display technologies in Windows 10

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and 8.1, to develop a hassle-free wireless display experience that meets the performance, security, and reliability requirements of demanding enterprise environments. Actiontec’s enterprise-class wireless display solution lets users wirelessly project any content from a Windows device, such as a tablet, smartphone, or laptop, to a large-screen HDTV or projector. Each display is served by one ScreenBeam receiver, which provides peer-to-peer connection between the device and display. The convenient one-receiver- per-display arrangement eliminates unsightly cables from the meeting rooms. Content on the small screen is instantly mirrored onto the big screen with the swipe of a finger, making it easy to switch presenters on the fly so meetings continue without inter-ruption. The successful deployment of the devices has stirred an exciting change in how employees collaborate in meetings, sup-ported by employee training for effective use of wireless display.

Seeing How Education Uses Wireless Display

A pair of religiously-affiliated girls’ schools in Australia pride themselves on their excellence in innovative teaching and learn-ing. The schools are also recognized for their forward-thinking use of technology to empower teachers. But one of the greatest limitations of using technology is that teachers are tied to wher-ever their computers are placed — typically a desk at the front of the classroom. The schools wanted to untether their teachers and provide the freedom to use the entire classroom for teaching and learning opportunities.

The schools deployed projectors and whiteboards in each class-room and equipped the teaching staff with pen-enabled tab-lets. However, without a wireless display solution that allowed the teachers to project content from anywhere in the classroom, the whiteboards were glorified chalkboards at best. The teachers needed a better way to use the projectors in the classroom — and provide freedom of movement to engage with the entire class-room or incorporate one-on-one instruction time with students.

The schools conducted a secondary search and selected a wireless display solution that can project any content from a small screen such as a tablet, smartphone, or laptop to a large-screen HDTV or



projector. The receiver — one per display —provides a direct con-nection between the device and display without unsightly cables. Wireless display gives teachers more freedom and mobility in the classroom, allowing them to leave the stage in the front of the room and better engage their students, yielding better student outcomes.

Adding Mobile ProductivityAlthough you probably automatically think of conference rooms when the subjects of meetings and presentations come up, you may want to broaden your viewpoint just a bit. Consider, for example, your mobile sales force. They also likely have many uses for doing presentations on the go.

Hotel rooms turn into highly productive workspaces when your sales people can use the in-room HDTV as a second monitor for their laptops. Client offices can be a handy place to do a quick, informal presentation. Most often they’re equipped with a large-screen TV that would be perfect to use to display a sales pitch — that is, if the display can be used to show the presentation. Fortunately, wireless display technology provides an answer.

Virtually all large screen TVs have at least one HDMI port, and wireless display receivers just happen to also have HDMI outputs. By equipping your mobile workforce with small, portable wire-less display receivers like the ScreenBeam Mini2, the large screen TV becomes the on-the-spot wireless display perfect for doing mobile presentations.

Another important part of mobility is enabling users to be pro-ductive off-campus without a lot of formal equipment setup. With wireless display, informal meetings no longer need advanced planning, so instant productivity is possible.

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Understanding Why Wireless Display is Great

Technology is constantly changing and you can be excused if you don’t jump on every new thing as soon as it’s announced. You need to know the benefits you’ll receive before spend-

ing your organization’s money. Otherwise, you could be spending all of your time and resources chasing “the next big thing.”

This chapter shows you how wireless display technology will help you reduce costs, have a more efficient workforce, and maybe make all those meetings just a bit easier to endure.

Looking at ROIReturn on investment (ROI) is one of those basic benchmarks of business. Any time someone wants you to invest resources on something, you probably do at least an informal calculation to determine the value of the proposal. If you didn’t think this way, you’d end up wasting a lot of time and money on foolish ideas. Wireless display has to pass the ROI test, just like any other new technology. Fortunately, that’s not a hard test for this technology.

Chapter 3

IN THIS CHAPTER

» Improving your ROI

» Giving presenters more freedom

» Opening up meetings



Let’s do some quick calculations. First, make a rough guess at how much an average employee makes in ten minutes. Next, figure out the average number of employees who attend most meetings. Now, multiply those two numbers by the number of meetings held in a conference room on an average day. Here’s an example:

1 employee at $80,000/year for 10 minutes = $6.50

Employees per average meeting = 6

Meetings per day per conference room = 6

Total cost of 10 minutes wasted per daily meeting = $234

If your conference room is booked for six meetings daily for the year, that ten minutes of wasted time could add up to more than $57,000 for the year!

Now you may be asking how wireless display works into all of this. I’m glad you asked.

Setting up for a presentation typically requires connecting what-ever device a presenter is using to a projector or other type of large display. This setup includes things like finding the right cables, making sure the connections are correct, and locating any necessary adapters. Then, after the physical connection is made, adjusting the device to display on the remote monitor must be accomplished. And, of course, nothing happens if the laptop or tablet doesn’t have the correct video port or the proper cables and adapters are missing. The whole process can easily burn through ten minutes or more. And don’t ignore the costs of installing and replacing all those cables, either!

Now, imagine a different scenario where wireless display tech-nology has been installed in the conference room. To connect to the wireless display, the presenter clicks the Connect button on their device, chooses the wireless display, and in about ten sec-onds, they’re ready to begin. There’s no hunting for cables, look-ing for obscure adapters, and no more wasted time waiting for the meeting to begin.

The ten minutes-versus-ten seconds comparison demonstrates that wireless display technology really does offer a huge ROI! Even if your wasted time costs are lower, it’s still clear that going wireless will quickly pay back whatever you spend to upgrade.

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Freeing Up SpeakersWireless display also benefits speakers because without being tied down by cables, the presentation can be given from anywhere in the room. It’s no longer necessary for the speaker to sit next to a projector at the front of the room in order to present their mate-rial. This freedom to move around also means that speakers are free to take their laptop or tablet into the audience. For example, a teacher or lecturer can bring his or her device to a participant’s location to provide extra assistance or to allow the participant to provide some input.

Windows laptops and tablets that connect to a ScreenBeam wire-less display receiver offer a handy display option that’s useful for things like PowerPoint presentations. When connecting to the wireless display, the user can choose from several options, including one that allows the wireless display to extend rather than duplicate the desktop. When the Extend the Desktop option is selected, the PowerPoint slides can be shown on the wireless display while the monitor on the laptop or tablet shows the pre-senter view or the slide notes. It’s even possible to have com-pletely separate applications displayed on the two screens, so the presenter can do a web search in real-time for special help in answering an unexpected question from the audience.

Wireless display receivers such as ScreenBeam can connect to vir-tually any HDMI input, so you’re free to connect to projectors or HD panel displays (HDTVs). In addition, the ScreenBeam 960 has VGA output allowing you to get more use out of legacy displays and projectors.

Windows 10 devices also support Miracast user input back channel (UIBC) so that touch screens — or USB keyboards and mice — can be attached to the wireless display receiver to control the Windows 10 device, as shown in Figure 3-1. Now, the speaker can connect, display, and control their Windows 10 device from almost any-where in the room. A few Miracast receivers, such as the Actiontec ScreenBeam 960, support touch-enabled wireless displays. In the near future, you’ll start seeing media-agnostic USB (MA USB), which lets users access and interact with a large variety of USB peripherals that are plugged into the Miracast receiver.



Untethering ProductivityWireless display also makes it far easier for multiple people to quickly give presentations without setup delays. You don’t have to wait for one person to physically disconnect his or her device, move to a different seat, and then have a second person go through the entire setup process.

Miracast wireless display receivers also transmit any audio stream to the display via the HDMI connection. Thus it’s possible to present a complete multimedia presentation using Miracast. Also, ScreenBeam wireless display receivers provide nearly per-fect lip sync while delivering brilliant HD display, so you don’t have to worry about audio sync or video quality problems, either. No more annoying videos that look like they have poorly dubbed audio tracks with mouths completely out of sync with the voices!

It’s important to look for wireless display products that can be easily managed remotely by your IT staff using a central manage-ment tool. Central management enables you to use organizational resources more effectively. For example, IT can upgrade firmware, apply policies, change settings or configurations, customize the Ready to Connect screen, and provide remote help desk services.

FIGURE 3-1: Miracast with user input back channel.

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Considering the Future of Wireless Display

As useful as wireless display technology is already, the immediate future looks even brighter. This chapter briefly discusses some of the exciting things coming to wireless

display in the newest developments.

Using Wireless Touch and InkingWireless display technology certainly makes life a lot easier for presenters by doing away with the need to be physically tied down by inconvenient cables. Now speakers can be wherever they want in the room, and they’re free to move about as they speak.

As handy as that freedom may be, another new option is making wireless display even more interactive and intuitive — wireless touch and inking. If you’ve ever used a touchscreen smartphone or if you’ve used the touch inking capabilities in the latest versions of Windows 10, you’re already familiar with how natural both touch and inking feel. There’s no need to drag a mouse pointer across the screen when you can simply use your finger to point and tap.

Chapter 4

IN THIS CHAPTER

» Going full wireless

» Becoming truly mobile



Devices like the ScreenBeam 960 go a step further by enabling user input back channel (UIBC), which allows USB Human Inter-face Devices (HIDs) such as touch-enabled displays, to be fully enabled wirelessly. If you have a modern touch-enabled display, UIBC makes it possible for the presenter to control a laptop or tablet by touching the display in the front of the room. UIBC also means that the wireless display actually communicates with the device providing the content rather than simply mirroring it. See Chapter 3 for more information on UIBC.

Actiontec is Microsoft’s co-engineering partner for building wireless display capabilities into the modern Windows operating systems.

Carrying Your PC in Your PocketAs technology advances, people can carry ever more computing power in ever smaller packages. Windows 10 devices including desktops, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones already benefit from Universal Windows Applications that enable the exact same apps to run on the entire spectrum of Windows 10 devices. As a result, mobile workers can do everything they need to do with a single, pocket-sized device.

HP’s Elite x3 smartphone is a great example of this kind of power. HP offers the Elite X3 Lap Dock, which uses Miracast and Con-tinuum to allow the Elite X3 to function as a laptop with a full keyboard and touchpad.

Microsoft is also set to enable legacy Windows applications origi-nally written in the .net platform to run on the ARM processors used in many smartphones. Once that update is released, many Windows 10 smartphones will be able to provide an even more complete Windows experience because they’ll be able to run many Windows 32 applications in addition to Windows Store apps. Imagine how useful wireless display will be when you can use virtually any Windows application on a large screen using only Miracast and your Windows 10 smartphone!

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Ten Things to Remember About Wireless Display

I’ve covered lots of material in the few short pages of this book, so you may be feeling like everything went by pretty quickly. Well, never fear, this chapter is intended to provide you with a

summary of the important information you really want to remem-ber about wireless display.

Understanding Miracast is the Standard for Wireless Display

Standards are a vital part of enabling products from different manufacturers to work together. Going with a standardized solu-tion rather than something proprietary provides many benefits, including knowing that you aren’t dependent on the whims and fortunes of a single vendor. By deciding upon the Miracast stan-dard, you can be sure that your wireless display solution will meet your needs now and in the future.

Standardization using Miracast for wireless display means

» P2P Wi-Fi Direct architecture eliminates heavy LAN traffic so you don’t overload your network.

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IN THIS CHAPTER

» Ten great tips



» Modern devices connect to displays easily.

» Wireless display is native to the operating system and supported directly in the operating system. There’s no training time and no software to learn; anyone can pick it up and use it.

Getting a Productivity DividendTime saved is productivity gained. This productivity dividend is real money back in your company’s pocket. In virtually all cir-cumstances, wireless display pays for itself almost immediately because very little capital investment is required to produce huge gains in overall productivity.

Some of the real, measurable productivity benefits wireless dis-play provides include:

» Meetings start in 5–10 seconds versus 5–10 minutes, so you aren’t wasting attendees’ time while presenters struggle to connect.

» Implementation has a very low cost but provides immediate payback and dividends.

Gaining MobilityThe world is becoming more mobile every day. People are no longer content to be tied down to a desk. In the new, mobile way of life, people expect to be able to be productive no matter where they are.

Meetings and presentations have to evolve to meet the new mobil-ity expectations. You need to adapt your meeting spaces to pro-vide users with a mobile-oriented environment where they can be more productive. The key is wireless display, which enhances mobility by enabling

» Connection to any display or projector from anywhere in the room.

» Better results from mobile devices because you’re no longer limited to a tiny, mobile display.

» Life without cables, adapters, and other technical roadblocks to quick connections.



Enhancing CollaborationWireless display fosters collaborative environments in meeting rooms and classrooms. It’s easy to switch from presenter to pre-senter, making sharing ideas quick and easy.

With touch capabilities, people can quickly converge at the screen, mark up documents, and make changes in real-time. If your dis-play offers touch, be sure that your Miracast receiver is one like the ScreenBeam 960, which supports touch.

Wireless display

» Makes it easy to switch from presenter to presenter.

» Enables real-time interaction so speakers can concentrate on the topic, not the technology.

Enabling Interactive TouchInteractive touch enables users to use the wireless display just as they would a native touch display on a laptop, so they can use inking to mark up content, emphasize important points, and update content directly.

With wireless support for a broad range of USB-connected devices, users have more freedom and resources when they give presen-tations so meetings can flow more naturally. Interactive touch means users can simply concentrate on what they have to say and not worry about the technology or be tied down to a fixed-location speaker station.

Improving PerformanceScreenBeam commercial solutions are specifically designed to enable Miracast to work in dense radio frequency (RF) environ-ments. They provide near-perfect lip synch, extremely low-latency, and full-HD resolution. Unmanaged consumer solutions can’t provide the reliability you need, and may even interfere with your organization’s wireless network.



Actiontec’s latest ScreenBeam 750 and ScreenBeam 960 feature the ability for you to designate one or more wireless channels specifically for Miracast sessions. These devices allow you to bet-ter manage your Wi-Fi network by giving you more control over which channels and bands are used. Instead of sharing the same wireless band and channel as the wireless infrastructure, you can enable ScreenBeam to be the Wi-Fi-Direct group owner, commonly referred to as Autonomous Group Owner (AGO). Thus, you can reserve one or more clear 5GHz channels for ScreenBeam to oper-ate on, to assure a smooth and reliable Miracast wireless display experience for end-users.

Remember that Windows 10 devices support Miracast user input back channel (UIBC) and will soon be supporting media-agnostic USB (MA USB). With UIBC, shown in Figure 5-1, you can attach touch screens, USB keyboards and mice, and more to the wireless display receiver to control the Windows 10 device. As a result, the speaker can connect, display, and control the device from almost anywhere in the room.

FIGURE 5-1: Miracast with user input back channel.



Providing Enterprise Class SecuritySecurity is vitally important to all organizations. You simply can’t afford to implement a solution that either places corporate resources at risk or enables unauthorized access to your systems.

With custom access policies, a managed wireless display system doesn’t expose the corporate network to outside threats because no bridging occurs. You can enable access to the wireless display without compromising corporate resources. Because Miracast is peer-to-peer, wireless display traffic never accesses any of your confidential data.

Enabling Remote ManagementRemote management enables IT to maintain control of systems to ensure that resources are properly secured, maintained, and allocated. You need a wireless display solution that provides enterprise-grade remote management capabilities like the ScreenBeam Central Management System (CMS).

The CMS gives you complete IT control in the following ways:

» CMS is a must for all businesses and commercial implemen-tations, large and small, because you have better control over your systems.

» CMS allows you to optimize and tune your environment so you have stable, reliable connections that respect your organization’s Wi-Fi channel management policies. You now can control RF transmit power as well as manage channels and bands. You can even update firmware, or schedule an event to be performed at a particular date and time.

» You can customize the Ready to Connect screens for each room to show, for example, branding or instructions.

» You can apply initial provisioning on deployment.

» You’ll have better use of IT resources because CMS

• Provides remote helpdesk support of users in rooms.

• Pushes updates and refresh remotely.

• Accesses log data for telemetry and usage data.



Avoiding Consumer SolutionsAvoiding consumer-grade solutions protects your assets because consumer solutions aren’t designed with business needs in mind. For example, consumer solutions

» Lack enterprise-class security, are not remotely manageable, and are not designed for dense RF environments (where they may result in frequent dropped or failed connections).

» Provide poor user experience and performance.

» Can cause interference with Wi-Fi data.

» Lack the feature set and capabilities that you would find in a commercial solution.

Future ProofingMaking the right investments for your organization pays off. You want solutions that will serve your needs now and into the future.You need to remember:

» Invest in commercial-quality wireless display so that you aren’t stuck with an obsolete, proprietary system that depends on outdated technology.

» Allocate your budget toward high-quality, touch-capable “dumb” displays.

» You no longer need expensive “smart” boards with interactive touch. A “smart” board is an expensive and problematic choice because it is essentially a separate computer. ScreenBeam solves that problem; you simply connect to a touch-enabled display and make it an extension of your device. Your company thus can save money, time, and frustration. You can get a longer duty cycle out of touch screen investments because you don’t need to refresh touch screens as often as “smart” displays.

» Wireless display offers quick and easy installation. You don’t need to run more cables. Forget hiring expensive electricians to run in-wall wiring or making other expensive modifications.

» Displays keep up with your latest technology: As your user devices refresh, your conference room wireless display keeps up.


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