Video Conferencing Specialist Partners and Accreditations

As experts in video conferencing and audio visual installation, Internet Videocommunications prides itself on being at the cutting edge of the newest solutions available and in holding the highest credentials possible in terms of implementation. This allows us to ensure the best possible service to our customers in meeting and surpassing their video conferencing goals.

Our partnerships with the leading brands such as Yealink, Poly and Crestron allow our skilled systems designers to create the perfect video conferencing system to suit any need, while our relentless commitment to the highest possible standards of service ensure that the company continues to deliver the best-of-breed solutions through its best-in-class staff.

Prestigious Framework Awards

Internet Videocommunications prides itself on delivering world-class video conferencing services and deploying industry-leading expertise. In recognition of their award-winning service credentials and our commitment to quality Internet Videocommunications has been awarded supplier status on The Crown Comercial Service and NHS national frameworks. Invitation onto these frameworks highlights our trusted excellence in our field along with providing great value for money.

Trusted Accreditations

Avixa APEx

Avixa is the global trade association for the audio-visual and information communications industries. After many years of running the Certified Audio-Visual Solutions Provider (CAVSP) programme (for which Internet Videocomunications continually achieved the highest level of accreditation), Avixa has launched APEx, which is intended to be an even more rigorous examination of an AV provider’s methodologies, capabilities and qualifications.

Internet Videocommunications has now confirmed its place in an elite group of professional AV companies dedicated to upholding industry excellence by delivering world class services and technical expertise to clients.

AVIXA CTS / CTS-D

AVIXA has offered its certification program for more than 30 years and every year certifies more qualified AV professionals than anyone else in the industry. Individuals, companies and customers have always recognized the CTS® certification for its credibility and integrity. AVIXA’s CTS certification program assesses individuals against peer-developed standards and competencies and provides a credential that is time limited for three years. For those certified, continued competency is enhanced through ongoing renewal requirements and adherence to the CTS Code of Ethics and Conduct.

A Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) performs general technology solution tasks by:

Creating, operating, and servicing AV solutions
Conducting AV management activities that provide for the best audiovisual resolutions of the client's needs, both on time and within budget.

A Certified Technology Specialist ― Design (CTS-D) is an AV systems designer who:

Assesses client's needs
Designs AV systems
Prepares AV design documents
Coordinates and collaborates with other professionals to create AV systems that satisfy client's requirements

Cyber Essentials

The Cyber Essentials scheme addresses the most common Internet-based threats to cyber security — particularly, attacks that use widely available tools and demand little skill.

The scheme considers these threats to be:

Hacking — exploiting known vulnerabilities in Internet-connected devices, using widely available tools and techniques
Phishing — and other ways of tricking users into installing or executing a malicious application
Password guessing — manual or automated attempts to log on from the Internet, by guessing passwords

The Cyber Essentials certification shows that Internet Videocommunications protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data stored on devices which connect to the Internet. Such as:

Desktop and laptop PCs
Tablets and smartphones
All types of server and networking equipment

ISO's

ISO 9001:2015 – Quality management systems

This standard sets out the requirements for a quality management system. It helps businesses and organisations to be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction. The standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.

ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management

This sets out the criteria for companies looking to manage their environmental responsibilities and maps out a framework to follow that sets up an effective environmental management system. This certification provides the assurance to our customers that Internet Videocommunications’ environmental impact is constantly being measured and improved.

ISO 27001:2017 – Information Security Management

The international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). Achieving accredited certification to ISO 27001 demonstrates Internet Videocommunications is following information security best practice, and delivers an independent, expert assessment of whether your data is adequately protected.

Poly Expert Certification

As trusted Poly partners and Beta test partners it’s crucial that Internet Videocommunications credentials are at the pinnacle when it comes to the knowledge of their product portfolio and expertise in implementing their solutions. It’s how Internet Videocommunications ensures the best quality of service and expertise that has led to us being one of the most trusted independent providers of Video conference and audio-visual solutions for over 35 years.

The Poly Expert program has now replaced the former Polycom Certified Videoconferencing Engineer (PCVE) that Internet Videocommunications also held for a number of Years.

It provides a portfolio of learning and certification opportunities and assess’ individuals and organisations who are operating, supporting, installing and designing Poly communication solutions.

The syllabus ranges from fundamental understanding at Specialist level, through to advanced technical skills at Expert level and to acknowledge technical competency with an industry recognised certification from Poly.

To achieve an expert accreditation, Internet Videocommunications staff first had to meet the requirements to achieve the specialist and professional accreditation level which was done with flying colours in the areas of integration and video.

Poly Video specialist and professional certification

The Poly Video Specialist and Poly Video Professional programs focus on deploying, supporting and operating Poly video endpoint solutions and how to achieve the best collaboration experience with your Poly Video devices.

Poly Installation specialist and professional certification

Provides an advanced training and certification program for support staff, technicians and systems engineers who are responsible for the installation and support of small-to-medium Poly infrastructure deployments and best practice techniques for managing RealPresence Clariti deployment.

Poly Expert Certification

The Expert level program provides a certification program for senior support staff, technical consultants, systems architects and solution designers who are responsible for the design, deployment and support of complex Poly solution deployments and systems integrations. At this level successful applicants show how to design complex solutions and how to integrate multiple Poly solutions, as well as integration with third-party platforms.

Achieving this certification demonstrates that Internet Videocommunications is adept at handling more complex technology subjects, including security, quality of service and installation excellence.

So when it comes to implementing Poly solutions across your organisation you can feel at the ease that you are in expert hands.

Chas Accredited Contractor

Not only is Chas a trusted advisor on health & safety compliance, it is an authority on it. The accreditation shows that Internet Videocommunications follows industry benchmarks for health and safety as set by Chas, providing assurance and reassurance, that we will complete any jobs with the upmost of safety and quality.

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Yealink

Yealink offers a comprehensive set of one-stop communication products for a wide variety of work scenarios, working as Microsoft Platinum Partners on Microsoft Teams’ devices and helping joint customers realise the vision of intelligent communications.

With a broad, high-quality, yet cost-effective product portfolio as well as fast and effective technical support, Yealink has successfully established itself among the leading brands in the global endpoint market. For its strong overall performance, Yealink has earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 Global Growth Excellence Leadership Award and is well positioned to leverage its strength for continued success.

Founded in 2001, Yealink is a multinational corporation that dedicates itself to developing video, voice and content collaboration as well as communication technology. Yealink has transformed the market with their focus on high-productivity and easy collaboration. Currently, Yealink is providing services to customers in more than 140 countries.

Yealink’s Core Offering for Microsoft Teams

Yealink offers a full portfolio audio and video devices solution for Microsoft Teams that allows different professionals to work the way they want in meeting rooms, in-the-office, and on-the-go, as well as working remotely.

Yealink offers a full portfolio video devices solution for Microsoft Teams covering from huddle to extra-large meeting spaces, including MTR system, collaboration bar and video phone. To meet different requirements of customers, Yealink not only provides the MeetingBar A20 and A30 collaboration bar for small and medium spaces, but also provides the MVC range of room systems that can meet the needs of extra-large rooms.

With the Yealink Microsoft Teams Room video solutions, users can enjoy the premium video and audio experience, easy deployment and remote management via Yealink Device Management Platform, all of these bring the consistent and seamless Teams experience to every space.

Key Solutions:

Yealink MeetingBar A20: Huddle / Small Room

The Yealink MeetingBar A20 is an all-in-one video collaboration bar for small and huddle rooms featuring a 20MP camera and 133° super wide-angle lens delivering outstanding video quality. Together with the electric lens cap, its AI technologies including Auto Framing and Speaker Tracking allows users to experience a smarter video conference coupled with the CTP18 Touch Panel. Simple and flexible deployment but powerful features deliver excellent video collaboration performance.

Yealink MeetingBar A30: Medium Room

The Yealink MeetingBar A30 Teams Edition is an all-in-one video collaboration bar for Medium rooms. Featuring an 8MP camera and 120° super wide-angle lens delivering outstanding video quality.

Yealink Microsoft Teams Room for Windows

Yealink MVC series are native and easy-to-use video conferencing solutions specially designed for Microsoft Teams rooms. The MVC series provides a full-scene video conference solution to cover small to medium sized meeting rooms. The MVC series features the native Microsoft Teams user interface that is easy to operate with close-to-zero learning curve, you just walk into the meeting room and start your scheduled Teams meeting with one-touch join.

Simple to Deploy, Easy to Use

At the heart of the system is MCore, which is a PC specially designed for the video conference room so that deployment can be easily extended. At the same time, its all-in-one design with the feature of cable management ensure the stability of the wired connections, and the most appropriate deployment can be achieved according to the layout of the meeting room. One CAT5e is required to connect from the TV area and the conference table area and to complete the data transmission and power supply, no additional power supply or extension cable is needed, which not only simplifies the deployment but also effectively reducing deployment costs.

Native Microsoft Teams User Interface, Smooth Conference Experience

Native Microsoft Teams-tailored user interface offers a one-touch meeting join. Designed with the idea of multi-function all-in-one, the MTouch II touch panel allows you to easily perform call control, camera control, content sharing and other functions. At the same time, MTouch II has a built-in Human Motion Sensor so that the conference system can be automatically waken up and you can immediately start the conference.

Yealink MVC840: Large Room

The Yealink MVC840 includes two or three tabletop microphone arrays (up to 6 units can be connected) and a 4K HD PTZ camera with 12x optical zoom to meet the requirements of large meeting room.

Poly

Before Polycom merged with Plantronics to become Poly, Internet Videocommunications was awarded the world’s first Polycom Platinum Reseller all the way back in 2002 and we still hold top ranking accreditations to this day with our Poly Expert certification.

With links going back to the headsets used in the moon landing, Poly create beautifully designed and engineered audio and video products that let you be seen and heard with incredible clarity, wherever you work. Backed by the software, artificial intelligence, analytics and insights to take you far beyond mere connectivity.

Key Solutions:

The Poly RealPresence G7500

An industry-leading videoconferencing platform which delivers the most versatile user experience allowing you to choose whichever video app or cloud video service you want (including Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, Amazon Chime and Zoom) and bring this into the conference room.

The Poly G7500 is a modular system for video conferencing that enables you to configure the system you want, while giving people an easy way into the rich collaboration experiences they need. Loaded with features, yet simple to use.

4k Ultra HD delivers a truly lifelike picture and supports new applications with its super-high resolution. NoiseBlockAI and Acoustic Fence keep audio distractions such as background noise and side conversations to a minimum.

Help teams share ideas and express themselves clearly in Ultra HD 4K. No ideas get left behind, because anyone can share wirelessly, annotate and capture content for later use. With detailed visuals and rich audio, people feel like they’re together in the same room. With noise cancellation built-in, audio distractions like background noise and side conversations are a thing of the past.

POLY STUDIO X50

The Poly Studio X50 video bar delivers radical simplicity in a small, elegant

package. In small- and medium-sized rooms, connect easily with whatever video collaboration software you may use. Experience full boardroom-quality audio, advanced camera capabilities, and quick wireless content—all in one sleek video bar. And say goodbye to unnecessary pucks, cords, and cables, along with the PC or Mac to drive the meeting, since the Poly Video OS runs the show. Easy to install, easy to manage.

Crestron

For over 50 years, Crestron has been designing software and hardware solutions across government, military, lecture halls, and boardrooms, as well as the most discerning residential properties around the globe.

They create automation solutions that transform the way people live their lives, making their day-to-day tasks easier and improving efficiency and productivity. Crestron strive to be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, constantly offering faster, better solutions that address the needs of customers the world over. With Crestron, you aren’t just buying top-of-the-line electronics, you are investing in scalable and customised solutions, gaining 24/7 global service and support.

Key Solutions:

Crestron Flex

One platform that supports Microsoft Teams on every device, everywhere. Natively.

The Flex series provides one consistent Microsoft user experience from desktop to boardroom and delivers exceptional audio and visual quality. It simplifies the installation, deployment management, monitoring, and evolution of workplace technology locally and globally via a cloud–based management solution hosted on the Microsoft Azure IoT platform.

Activate calls, presentations, videoconferencing-just about anything Microsoft Teams offers-with one touch simplicity that Integrates with room scheduling to check room availability, book a meeting with a single touch. It also features a Flex button that integrates with advanced video controls and any smart building ecosystems so users can lower the shades, adjust lighting, and even change the temperature.

P SERIES

Initiate a conference call on your mobile phone then with one touch move the call to your desktop to free your computer. Search contacts. Check status of your projects. Find your next meeting. It’s not a phone, it’s a hub for collaboration between peers, and between devices. The P series delivers the Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business experience to users of desk-top phones. It features a large touch screen that provides convenient tools that connect you to your calendar and colleagues, right at your desk.

M SERIES

Hours of preparation goes into every meeting. Hundreds of hours of engineering expertise go into making those meetings flawless. Last minute meetings, global team huddles, boardroom strategy sessions start with a touch. Every element is heard and seen–every participant, every piece of the richest content. This tabletop solution allows instant collaboration from you desktop, whether that be calling, presenting, sharing or conferencing using Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, or Zoom Rooms software. All with an included 4K high-definition camera and incorporated four-microphone 360-degree array.

B SERIES

Set up your next meeting for success, with audio and image quality performance that really performs. Pick up on every word, important piece of content, visual cue and gesture with perfect clarity.

The Crestron B-Series and Smart Soundbars are how meetings get seen. Heard. And done. The beam forming microphone array provides crisp audio and an integrated 4K high-definition camera that provides auto-zoom, people counting, and lifelike image quality

C SERIES

A company-wide annual meeting in the auditorium. Sharing content with shareholders in the boardroom and stakeholders around the world. Pre-existing configurations and solutions. Complicated spaces with high expectations. Crestron Flex C-Series makes the complicated simple. Giving you the flexibility to build a system customized for your space, designed for your success. Easily, quickly and efficiently.

This flexible, integrated UC kit that brings one-touch join to even the most custom spaces. It natively supports Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, or Zoom Rooms.

Evoko

Evoko is a Swedish tech company who develop, market and sell innovative products that help modern meeting spaces to become more efficient. Their mission is to make meetings magnificent and want their products to bring a sublime experience for people who use them

Key Solutions:

Evoko Naso

Evoko Naso is a purpose built room manager. The software and hardware have been designed from the ground up to ensure a best-in-class experience. Use the touch screen to quickly find a room for your spontaneous meetings. Small icons represent the room’s equipment so you can pick the rooms that serve your needs. You can also report broken or missing meeting equipment directly on the screen.

A room booking system should be more than a list of features. It must be easy to use and it should look sublime in any office. Evoko Naso has the trademark intuitive light signals to guide you to the right room. The proximity sensor unfolds a new layer of information as you approach the screen to show you everything you need to know.

Thanks to the analytics tool you get valuable insights to help you increase efficiency, optimise resource usage and improve the meeting culture of your company. If you’re interested in taking a step towards complete workspace coordination, there are three packages that you can choose and combine to fit every need imaginable.

If your organisation utilises hot desking, the Pepper package can help you locate and book free desks. Finding a free desk, which is a major time stealer for many activity based offices, is now a walk in the park. Find and book a desk with the smartphone app where you also can see where your collegues are scheduled to work for the day. The collected data shows how your workspaces are being used and helps to optimise your floorplans for maximum productivity and cost efficiency.

For those needing more sophisticated functionality our Rose package is the ideal solution. It offers time-saving features, such as automatic check-in when entering a meeting room or full catering options when booking your room. It also has the option to add maps to guide you to the meeting room and use sensor connections. There is also a user-friendly mobile app where users can quickly find and book meeting rooms on the go.

Wouldn’t it be great if a visitor walked up to the front desk and was instantly recognised, greeted and got relevant information about their planned meeting? It’s totally possible with the Guava package. Handling the flow of people in and out the office building has never been easier than this. The meeting organiser gets a heads up as the visitor arrives and can prepare to give a warm welcome.

Barco

Imagine a way to see, sense, and share the intangible. It’s what happens when big data becomes knowledge. When images become insight. And when experiences come to life. That’s what Barco is all about.

In a world where data and rich content are expanding exponentially, we empower you with impressive visualization and innovative collaboration solutions to help you make meaningful connections.

Key Solutions:

Barco ClickShare C-10

With ClickShare C-10, you can start a meeting and get your content on screen within seconds. No matter the device you are using. Plug & Play with the ClickShare Button, that works perfectly on both PC or Mac. Go for workflow integration with the ClickShare App on laptop, mobile or tablet. Or enable full BYOD on a 4K canvas: screen mirroring with Airplay, GoogleCast and Miracast works flawlessly. Anyone, including guests, can share content wirelessly to the central room display with our one-click meeting experience. Two users can share side by side in full HD on screen. No cables, no software to download, no training needed.

ClickShare C-10 users can benefit from advanced interactive features including local view of the room display, decide what you share (either a full screen or a single window), annotation, blackboarding and touch back support that allows users to control the touchscreen in the room. Designed especially to make your meetings richer and more dynamic. C-10 makes hybrid collaboration flow in your creative meetings, brainstorms and discussion in one click.

The ClickShare C-10 can be used stand-alone or in combination with your existing conference room. It empowers hybrid meetings in existing Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Webex conference rooms with simple, one-click wireless content sharing. ClickShare completes the existing set-up and makes hybrid collaboration flow. Designed to fit your business perfectly and evolve with it. With flexibility for the future built in, it’s one of the smartest investments you can make in your meeting room or conference room ecosystem.

Extron

Every day, millions of people around the world are having their experiences enhanced by Extron audiovisual signal processing, distribution, and control products. their advanced technologies create better looking images, higher quality sound, systems that are easier to control and work more reliably. Their powerful asset management tools are helping technology professionals efficiently manage large numbers of audiovisual systems deployed throughout their enterprises and institutions.

Audio visual technology plays a crucial role for all types of organisations as they strive to improve the way they communicate. Well-designed AV technology systems make it possible to present high quality audio and video wherever it is needed to enable effective information sharing, whether you need to educate, make decisions, collaborate, monitor, notify, inspire, or entertain. Internet Videocommunications use a wide range of Extrons products such as scalers, amplifiers, extenders and panels to ensure that your video conferencing estate works to the very best of its potential.

Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of their DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born.

What is Cisco's mission statement?

Shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners.

Logitech / lifesize

Focused on innovation and quality, Logitech designs personal peripherals to help people enjoy a better experience with the digital world. Starting in 1981 with mice, which (new at the time) provided a more intuitive way of interacting with a personal computer. Logitech became the worldwide leader in computer mice, and have reinvented the mouse in dozens of ways to match the evolving needs of PC and laptop users.

Since those early days, Logitech has expanded it's expertise in product design beyond the computer mouse, with a broad portfolio of interface devices that are the “last inch” between you and your computer or your console game, digital music or home-entertainment system.

With products sold in almost every country in the world, Logitech’s leadership in innovation now encompasses a wide variety of personal peripherals (both cordless and corded), with special emphasis on products for PC navigation, gaming, Internet communications, digital music and home-entertainment control.

For each of their product categories, Logitech studies how customers use their digital devices, and then it's designers and engineers set their sights on how to create a better experience with those devices – richer, more comfortable, more fun, more productive, more convenient, more delightful.

Pexip

Pexip was founded on the idea that they could greatly improve and revolutionise the way people work and collaborate visually.

With Pexip Infinity’s virtualised and distributed software, unified communications for everyone is made possible in a realistic way. They believe by utilising industry standard IT tools, and looking at solving challenges through IT, everyone can have access to video, audio and data collaboration. Everyone can have their own Virtual Meeting Room that can be used simply and effectively.

Deployed on-premise, in a private or public cloud, or even rented as a service, Pexip’s Virtual Machine software enables organisations to deploy as much and as widely as needed, in minutes rather than days or weeks.

The Pexip culture is built on a strong foundation of solid values, and vast experience. They believe in the power of video communication, and working to enable people to communicate better visually.

Pexip is based in Oslo, Norway, with offices in the USA and United Kingdom.

Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans Network was founded in November 2009 with a passion to make video communications easy. Starting from the ground up, Blue Jeans was built as a cloud-based conferencing service to enable people to connect with each other any time, any place and from any device. Every phone call should be a video call and Blue Jeans are designing the technology to make that happen.

Vidyo

Vidyo is changing the way people connect. They focus on moving the business model for video conferencing beyond expensive legacy hardware and dedicated networks to provide a powerful, flexible and scalable software-based solution that is also affordable. Easy to use and manage, Vidyo™ technology innovations put HD-quality, multipoint video communications within reach of anyone using any device, anywhere. All that’s needed is an Internet, LTE or 4G connection to join in a lifelike and truly collaborative meeting experience. Today, Vidyo’s video collaboration solutions power new workflow applications that close information gaps and boost productivity in industries such as banking, education, government, healthcare, and high tech.

Vidyo Vice Chairman and Co-founder, Ofer Shapiro, led the design team that built the industry’s first commercially successful video conferencing system. He understood that driving mass adoption of video conferencing as a key business tool required a sharp departure from the norm. The team focused on quality, simplicity and value to create a better alternative to traditional room systems (high-quality, high cost, complex) and consumer solutions (low-quality, low-cost).

Among their critical breakthroughs are the introduction of high-resolution desktop and mobile video, and the world’s first software-based platform for video communications and collaboration to leverage the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard—developed in large part by members of the early team at Vidyo. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture allows customers in every sector of the economy to bring video conferencing technology onboard without overhauling or upgrading their networks.