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 estimate
built around your specific space
