Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 User Guide

Guide
Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832

Introduction
This deployment guide outlines the best practices for using a conference room environment with the Cisco®IP Conference Phone 8832.
This guide is intended primarily for site planning of the Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832. Installers, network administrators, and facility maintenance personnel may also find this document useful.
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Overview of Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832
The Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 enhances people-centric collaboration by delivering easy-to-use audio conferencing with astounding voice quality and clarity. Newly developed microphones and loudspeakers provide the richest sound of any conference phone on the market. Our unique acoustic design includes a “studio-monitor” full-range speaker. This loudspeaker architecture provides a dynamic, detailed sound with low distortion and low-frequency clarity, making conferencing an in-person experience with exceptionally clear and natural audio quality. (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 and extension microphones

The Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 is a simple, flexible, scalable solution that meets the challenges of most types of rooms. It provides flexible deployment expansion by using an optional extension microphone kit (wired or wireless) and an optional daisy chain kit. The wireless extension microphone kit uses Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) technology.

Depending on your region/country, different versions of the 8832 base unit are available (for compliance with country-specific wireless spectrums).

Table 1. 8832 base product IDs and corresponding regions/countries

Table 2. Available optional 8832 kits

For more detailed specifications, please refer to the datasheet for the Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 at:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/unified-ip-phone-8800-series/datasheetc78-739624.html

Room considerations for the Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832
Table 3 lists the maximum recommended room sizes for optimal 8832 audio coverage. Every conference room has different acoustic characteristics. Conference rooms with high-reverberation acoustics will drastically decrease these numbers. Acoustic reverberation is caused by hard surfaces such as glass walls and hard-surface flooring. If you suspect that your conference room has high-reverberation acoustics, then you must test with the 8832 and
optional wired or wireless microphone kits and/or secondary base kit to determine maximum optimal audio coverage. For best results, testing should be done by adding and subtracting the wired or wireless microphone kit and/or the secondary base kit. The recommended maximum room sizes in Table 3 assume a rectangular room and a rectangular table located in the middle with a maximum conference room ceiling height of 10 feet.

Table 3. Maximum recommended room sizes

Table 3.1 SKUs for different deployment scenarios

Room diagram examples for optional coverage
Figure 2 shows the maximum optimal coverage of a 20- by 34-foot room with an 8832 base unit and a wired microphone kit.
Figure 2. Maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 34-foot room with 8832 base unit and wired microphone kit

Figure 3 shows the maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 40-foot room with an 8832 base unit and a wireless microphone kit.
Figure 3. Maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 40-foot room with 8832 base unit and wireless microphone kit

Figure 4 shows the maximum optimal coverage of a 20- by 36-foot room with two 8832 base units and a daisy chain kit.
Figure 4. Maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 36-foot room with two 8832 base units and daisy chain kit

Figure 5 shows the maximum optimal coverage of a 20- by 50-foot room with two 8832 base units, a daisy chain
kit, and a wired microphone kit.
Figure 5. Maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 50-foot room with two 8832 base units, daisy chain kit, and wired microphone kit

Figure 6 shows the maximum optimal coverage of a 20- by 57-foot room with two 8832 base units, a daisy chain kit, and a wireless microphone kit.
Figure 6. Maximum optimal coverage of 20- by 57-foot room with two 8832 base units, daisy chain kit, and wireless microphone kit

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