Discover Lightware & Our Target Market Solutions

The Beginning of Something Greater

Lightware Is Going to Be 25 Years Old This Year

Being on the market for 25 years now, we have always been strongly focused on expanding the horizons of what is possible within the realms of signal management, delivering numerous world-first technologies along the way. During this time, we grew from a small niche venture into a global enterprise and industry leader, serving clients all across the globe in over 30 countries, and it has established itself as one of the leading AV corporations on the global market.

Our Mission,

has always been to deliver reliable and versatile, yet simple and consistent AV solutions that make life easier and that ensure that technology is not an obstacle but a powerful tool. We focus on customers’ needs and deliver viable solutions over expectations with an uncompromising level of customer service and support.

Corporate

At Lightware, we firmly believe that AV technology must support and encourage collaboration instead of causing unnecessary distraction.
Our solutions unlock ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ capabilities and room automation features for a more enhanced meeting experience.

After the pandemic, organizations of all sizes were wrestling with serious issues, especially related to their changing workforces. Many employees are more tech-savvy and flexible than ever before as they are working on their own time, from anywhere. The time has never been better for collaborative spaces with integrated technology for hybrid in-office and work-from-home schedules.

Zoom Room Native Control of Taurus UCX

Lightware products have a proven track record of seamlessly integrating with industry-leading 3rd party devices from network switchers to USB webcams, audio systems and other AV or IT infrastructures. This demo featuring collaborations with Zoom Room and Logitech products will present the followings:

• • The Zoom Room functions can be expanded with additional sources like USB-C laptops with the possibility to use in Zoom call and via USB passthrough.
• • Zoom Room can be configured over the Zoom cloud to have the native control for Taurus UCX video and USB switching.
• • The integration gives access to connected laptops and tablets through the Room Control section, through the Logitech TAP without video signal sensing.
• • The demo enables the BYODs to use the camera, speaker and microphone installed in the room.
• • With JSON configuration, room control and peripheral control is possible as well.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Native Control of Taurus UCX

Lightware products have a proven track record of seamlessly integrating with industry-leading 3rd party devices from network switchers to USB webcams, audio systems and other AV or IT infrastructures. This demo featuring collaborations with Microsoft Teams Rooms, Barco and Poly products presented the followings:

• • Barco ClickShare button press can switch room peripherals (display, camera, speaker, mic) from MTR to ClickShare.

Cisco Webex Room Integration with Taurus UCX using LARA

Lightware products have a proven track record of seamlessly integrating with industry-leading 3rd party devices from network switchers to USB webcams, audio systems and other AV or IT infrastructures. This demo featuring collaborations with Cisco and Shure products will present the followings:

• • The Cisco Webex Room Device functions can be expanded with additional sources like USB-C laptops with the possibility to use in Webex call and via USB passthrough.
• • The integration gives access to connected laptops and tablets through the Share Screen menu on the Cisco touch panel with video signal sensing.
• • Room control and peripheral control will be shown as possible options.
• • The demo contains light control and mute LED ring sync with the Shure table microphone unit.

Monitoring Solutions for Lightware Units

Lightware’s successful cooperation and interoperability with Utelogy and TAD makes it possible to monitor our products in the cloud as well, which is presented by this setup the following way:

• • Both Utelogy and TAD uses a PC / Virtual machine to collect data from configured Lightware units on the local AV network, then the local collector / monitoring server pushes these data to the cloud.
• • Device name, version, signal status can be monitored live via the cloud.
• • Alarms can be set for any specific reason to trigger message to the operator, like overheating, signal loss, ethernet connectivity loss, or an unplugged cable for example
• • This setup uses only Utelogy and TAD drivers, so there is no need to use or involve Event Manager or LARA in this scenario.

TAURUS UCX - The Power of USB-C

Meet our powerful UCX switcher that improves productivity in hybrid collaboration and presentation. With a USB C + Taurus UCX, it only takes a few seconds to connect, join your meeting and share your presentation. Stay charged and enjoy the benefits of the wired internet.

Education

Lightware offers intuitive and automated room control solutions for educational institutions allowing students and educators to focus on the task at hand.

Today’s classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art AV equipment; multiple high-resolution displays, built-in room PCs and everything else needed for seamless training, and Lightware offers the technology to help future generations connecting and collaborating more easily than ever before.

VINX – AV over IP for Classrooms’ Gigabit Networks

Our education demo presented how to share students’ computers with the teacher and room displays:

• • 6x5 Virtual Video Switching Matrix simulating a classroom environment
• • KVM Switching
• • Signal previews can be viewed on the touch panel
• • Controlling can be done via buttons (RAP) and touch panel (LARA)
• • Command injection is available for camera control
• • Audio Routing can be demonstrated with microphone announcements
• • With a visualizer, live camera feed is available from the lectern

VINX - Video Network Extender

VINX series devices were designed for 1G Ethernet networks and can also operate in point-to-point configuration with diverse application possibilities. We recommend VINX for applications where scalability, flexibility and rapid deployment are in focus. They are simple to install and to operate, and have numerous built-in services most other manufacturers only provide for an extra cost.

Imagine an education environment where teachers can prepare the room for their next class remotely using their own mobile device, and by the time they get there everything from lights to displays are up and running. Once in the room, they can then simply connect their own laptop to gain complete control over the room’s integrated AV system and start sharing their content right away or alternatively, easily access any individual student’s screen and assist them thanks to Lightware AV -over -IP solutions.

Lightware Education Audiovisual Developer

In our commitment to offering the best for education, we introduce the Lightware Education Audiovisual Developer (LEAD) program. It is dedicated specifically to our highly esteemed education partners committed to Lightware audiovisual products in their standards. LEAD was established to support the specific needs of educational institutions where reliable and consistent, campus-wide solutions are needed.

Defense

Deployed to challenging and often highly-classified environments, Lightware is proud to support mission-critical systems across land, air and sea domains. In this market we had the challenges ahead of us like the different classification levels within the networks, the demand for the highest level of security, and no signal latency is acceptable due to mission critical operations. We came up with the following solutions.

UBEX - AV over IP Flight Simulator Training Setup

• Using 2x10GbE aggregated links for lossless and uncompressed 4k@60 4:4:4 signal transmission will be presented on the wall display monitors.
• The video signals from the image generators will be streamed over the UBEX platform to extend the three parallel video signals with almost zero latency and full sync - this is mission critical in-flight simulation.
• Multiview mode, which is a new PoC feature will also be presented, this allows meshing the signal from 4 different streams into a customizable layout.
• In the redundancy simulation demonstration, the loss of one of the 10GbE links will be solved with the down-sampling or down-scaling options, so the signal will still fit into the remaining 10GbE connection.
• UBEX units will be set to operate in Transmitter and Receiver mode as well.

UBEX - Be Mission Prepared

Lightware’s UBEX AV-over-IP supports standalone operations or can be linked with multiple trainers for collective training to simulate the specific environments aircrew will encounter on their mission. Whether it be, Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground, Surface-to-Air, Close Air Support, or Forward Air Controller missions, you can train with confidence knowing that only the most reliable, resilient and best immersive AV technology with build in redundancy is provided to ensure there is never a gap in training. This means more effective, realistic and repeatable training before the mission ever begins.

Imagine an education environment where teachers can prepare the room for their next class remotely using their own mobile device, and by the time they get there everything from lights to displays are up and running. Once in the room, they can then simply connect their own laptop to gain complete control over the room’s integrated AV system and start sharing their content right away or alternatively, easily access any individual student’s screen and assist them thanks to Lightware AV -over -IP solutions.

Lightware Advanced Room Automation

Our main vision is to create the multitude of solutions, which provides background for all our users to bring out the most of their meeting rooms.

LARA’s mission is to provide a future-proof room automation platform for system integrators so they can seamlessly and invisibly support people’s collaboration to make the most put of their virtual or in-person meetings all over the world.

LARA Operating in Meeting Room Environments

At Lightware, we firmly believe that AV technology must support and encourage collaboration instead of causing unnecessary distraction. Our solutions unlock ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ capabilities and room automation features for a more enhanced meeting experience. With this demo, many of LARA’s features is presented live, like:

• • Switching laptop inputs with LARA user panel (iPad in the demo), the Tablebox buttons and the Room Automation Panel (RAP) interfac
• • Turning on a ceiling projector, operating a motorized screen and the room lighting system.
• • Showing parallel operation of the Lightware’s RAP button/knob input device and LARA touch panel (e.g. changing volume level of the display)
• • Further room automation events where LARA can help out system integrators.

Configuration Flexibility

LARA’s aim is to create value for system integrators who are not comfortable with programming or want to develop their programming skills as well as for experienced programmers. One of LARA’s key goals is to allow integrators to create room automation:

without deep programming knowledge due to continuously expanding pre-written driver module-set

by writing modules and configurations in JavaScript

by mixing the two approaches, do part of the configuration with wizards and templates, do part of it by programming

Let LARA seamlessly and invisibly support your corporate and education life. Integrated in Taurus UCX and MMX2, LARA can ensure that devices are ready to use by the start of the meeting and lessons and manage device behavior all along even after them.

Focus fully on your personal or hybrid meetings and let LARA set up the technical space for you

Optimize costs and reduce environmental impact by not having to add an additional controller unit