The Need: A Cluttered Table Sends the Wrong Message
Walk into most meeting rooms today and the table tells a story, just not the one the organisation intends. A speakerphone in the centre. Microphones scattered across seating positions. Cables snaking to floor boxes and wall plates.
The problem isn’t just sound quality. It’s clutter and clutter has a cost.
It undermines first impressions. Clients and stakeholders read a messy table as a sign of an under-managed space, before a single word is spoken.
It shrinks usable space. Laptops, notebooks and collaboration material compete for room with equipment that shouldn’t be there in the first place.
It slows meetings down. Passing a mic, hunting for a cable, or fighting audio dropouts breaks focus and wastes time that should go to the discussion itself.
It complicates hybrid collaboration. As more meetings mix in-room and remote participants, tabletop audio setups struggle to deliver consistent pickup across the whole space.
Organisations don’t need another speakerphone. They need meeting-room audio that disappears, technically capable, but invisible to the eye and effortless to use.
The Answer: Move the Audio Up, Not Around
Air CSD is an all-in-one ceiling Dante speakerphone. Instead of adding another device to the table, it moves microphone pickup and audio output overhead, freeing the table entirely while covering the full room.
A 32-element MEMS microphone array covers up to 60 m2 from a single ceiling unit, with AI-driven noise reduction, echo cancellation and beamforming built to keep conversations clear even when several people speak at once.
The result: no need to lean toward a device, no passed-around microphones, and a conference table that looks the way it was meant to.
Why Dante: The Technology That Makes It Work
Putting audio overhead only works if the infrastructure behind it is just as simple and that’s where Dante comes in.
Dante is an Audio-over-IP standard: one network connection carries audio, control and power together, in place of separate audio cables, control cables and power runs. That single idea drives everything else that follows.
Simpler installation. One cable type instead of multiple dedicated runs, less material, less install time.
Software-defined flexibility. Audio routing is configured through Dante Controller software, not physical rewiring, so changes to the room don’t mean pulling new cable.
IT-native scalability. Because Dante rides on standard IP networking, AV systems integrate naturally with existing infrastructure and expand as rooms are added, with support for cascading across the network.
Dante is also supported across a wide range of audio brands rather than being tied to one manufacturer, giving AV and IT teams more flexibility in how they design and manage room audio at scale.
Built for How Rooms Are Actually Used
Every meeting room behaves differently, so Air CSD is designed around configurability rather than a single fixed pattern:
Four independently configurable pickup zones with mute-zone isolation, so integrators can define exactly where the system should — and shouldn’t — listen.
Built to work with existing tools, from Teams, Zoom, Webex and Google Meet to API-based central control and camera voice-tracking.
Picture a 12-person boardroom where people sit wherever they land. Instead of positioning microphones around the table and routing cables to match, Air CSD defines pickup zones from the ceiling, the table stays clear, and voice pickup stays consistent no matter where someone sits.
The Value, at a Glance
Cleaner rooms — no tabletop microphones, speakerphones or cable clutter.
Better meetings — consistent voice pickup across the room, in person or remote.
Simpler deployment — one network cable, configured through software.
Easier scaling — add or reconfigure rooms without re-wiring.
Air CSD doesn’t ask organisations to choose between a beautiful room and professional-grade audio. It delivers both, by taking the technology off the table, and letting the conversation take its place.
If a table full of cables is quietly working against the rooms your teams and clients meet in, the fix doesn’t require a full renovation, just a different approach to where the technology lives.
Request an Air CSD room assessment and get a deployment plan, timeline and cost estimatebuilt around your specific space
