The CONVERGE Pro product family represents a revolutionary advance in state-of-the-art audio technology for large-scale conferencing applications.
ClearOne introduced its first audio conferencing products to the market in 1990 under the brand name Gentner®. Today, ClearOne has over 80,000 installations worldwide in organizations ranging from the Fortune 1,000 to the federal government. ClearOne products are used in the most demanding conferencing applications, where they consistently deliver industry-leading audio quality and unsurpassed reliability.
ClearOne’s proprietary Distributed Echo Cancellation® (DEC) technology forms the foundation of the CONVERGE Pro product family, and provides optimal audio quality for today’s distributed conferencing environments. In addition to DEC, other ClearOne innovations – including noise cancellation, automatic gain and level control, advanced microphone gating, adaptive ambient, and ClearEffect™ wideband audio emulation – produce crystal-clear audio that is equivalent to conference participants being in the same room.
- USB connector on front panel for easy connectivity with a laptop or PC
- Dual RJ-45 Ethernet ports
- Dual RJ-45 expansion bus ports
- TDM (Time Division Multiplexed) mix/minus audio and control buses
- RS-232 serial port (up to 115,200 bps)
- Dual DB-25 control/status GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) Ports
- Mini-phoenix audio input/output connectors (color-coded by channel type)
- Differential inputs and outputs
- Feature Enhancements
- ClearOne’s next-generation Distributed Echo Cancellation—up to eight discrete digital signal processors (DSPs) improve full-duplex performance and remove echo in the most difficult acoustic environments
- New PTT (Push-to-Talk) microphone compatibility provides greater design and configuration flexibility
- Advanced noise cancellation reduces background noise caused by fans, HVAC systems, and other relatively constant background noise sources
- Up to eight independent signal processing blocks, each with 15 user-configurable filters (including all-pass, low-pass, high-pass, low-shelving, high-shelving, and parametric), delay, and compression. ClearOne’s unparalleled processing power enables you to use all of these features simultaneously in any combination, allowing you to create optimized audio configurations for every environment and application.
- Enhanced expansion bus (E-bus) capabilities—connect up to 34 CONVERGE Pro units together and use up to 96 microphones and 16 telephone lines in a single CONVERGE Pro installation
- Increased distance between units—up to 200 feet/60.96 meters
- Graphical, user-configurable routing matrix allows you to route any input channel to any output, processing, or fader channel (or combination thereof) on any CONVERGE Pro unit, or across the expansion bus
- Front panel control of mute and gain for all input and output channels
- Safety mute button on the Console™ software button bar instantly mutes all outputs
- ClearOne’s DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology ensures crystal-clear audio between conferencing sites
The CONVERGE Pro product family includes the following models:
- CONVERGE Pro 880
- CONVERGE Pro 880T
- CONVERGE Pro 880TA
- CONVERGE Pro 840T
- CONVERGE Pro TH20
- CONVERGE Pro VH20
- CONVERGE Pro 8i
- CONVERGE Pro SR1212
- Common Benefits
- Superior audio quality
- ClearOne’s next generation signal processing algorithms
- Field-proven conferencing technology
- Flexible configuration and expandability
- Improved configuration and management software
- Simplified programming
- Reduced installation times
- Best-in-class processing speed
- ClearOne’s world-class customer service, technical support, and field engineering services
- Common Benefits
- Boardrooms
- Training rooms
- Courtrooms
- Multimedia rooms
- Distance learning
- Auditoriums
- Houses of worship
- Sound reinforcement
- Large meeting venues
