AVer Large Room Video Conferencing — Built for the Long Table
The seats at the far end of the table have been missing from your calls for months. Not because the people in them go quiet — because the camera cannot reach them, the microphone cannot hear them, and nobody on the remote side knows they are there. This page matches room depth to camera architecture in numbers: the optical, audio and signal-path reasons a video bar stops working beyond a certain distance, the depth ladder that maps the right AVer system to each room band, and the components that solve the long room from Dubai stock — camera units from AED 4,900 to 8,900, the VB350 bar from AED 7,900 to 11,000, and full ceiling-audio rooms project-banded at survey. IT managers with a failing boardroom, facilities leads pricing a training hall and AV integrators building a BOQ all read it for the same reason.
Vector Digital Systems has supplied and installed AV systems across the UAE since 2009 and is the authorised AVer distributor for the country, holding the USB conferencing line — CAM570, CAM550, FONE700, VC520 Pro3, VB350 — in Dubai stock and designing long-room camera coverage against room dimensions, not brochure adjectives.
Three reasons the back row disappears — and what fixes each one
Depth defeats a video bar three ways.
First: pixels. A fixed wide-angle lens crops digitally when it zooms — it enlarges the existing image rather than moving glass. A face twelve metres away on a digital-zoom bar is enlarged noise, not a close-up. Optical zoom moves the lens elements, so a 12x optical camera delivers real resolution on a face at that distance.
Second: pickup. A video bar's built-in microphone array reaches four to eight metres reliably. Beyond that, voices arrive at the capsules having already bounced off walls and ceiling. The remote side hears room echo before the talker's voice, and the platform's noise cancellation suppresses both.
Third: the USB run. Standard USB cabling is limited to roughly five metres before the signal degrades. A room where the camera mounts at the display wall and the meeting PC sits at the AV rack is not served by a longer cable — it needs a dedicated extender carrying the full USB 3.0 bandwidth across the real distance, which AVer's UE1 does over CAT cabling to roughly 100 metres.
Depth decides the camera class. The bar that works in a six-seat room fails in a twelve-seat room not because the brand changed, but because the physics did.
Find your room depth first. Everything else follows.
The table below ladders from a six-seat huddle room to a twenty-four-seat long boardroom. Find the row closest to your room's camera-to-far-seat distance before looking at models or prices.
| Room depth | The architecture | What decides | UAE band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to ~6 m | Standard video bars and USB kits — the room shape a bar was designed for | Seat count and platform, not reach; start on the general VC systems page | Quoted per model |
| 6–9 m | VB350 dual-lens bar — one unit with genuine optical reach | Optical hybrid 18X zoom and 120° view keep one-box simplicity working | AED 7,900–11,000 |
| 8–12 m | CAM570 or VC520 Pro3 with extended table audio | 12x optical zoom holds facial detail; speakerphone coverage extends to the room | AED 4,900–8,900 camera; kits quoted |
| 12 m+ · one angle | CAM570 + FONE700 ceiling chain — voice-steered lens, ceiling audio field | Talker located to 10 m; audio chain covers roughly 40 m of room | Project-banded at survey |
| 12 m+ · two angles | Dual CAM550 + FONE700 — the ceiling system steers two cameras | Two tracked views cover opposite sides of one long table | Project-banded at survey |
| Multi-zone / partitioned | Matrix-routed multi-camera design | Covered in full on the divisible meeting room page | AED 55,000–110,000 |
Bands are planning ranges, wide to the high side — a quotation confirms exact numbers against current Dubai stock. Runs past ~10 m may add UE1 or HUB35-EXT35 USB extension.
Two mistakes appear every year. Under-buying looks like a long-table bar that seemed adequate until the fourth week — the far rows go quiet, the remote side stops acknowledging the people at the back, and the IT manager is back at the same problem with less budget. Over-buying looks like a four-camera matrix in a twelve-seat room that combines once a quarter; the system performs perfectly and nobody learned how to operate it. Depth does most of the deciding.
When one box still works — the VB350 for six to nine metres
If the table runs between six and nine metres, check the VB350 before specifying a component build. The VB350 is AVer's own dual-lens 4K video bar, built for medium and large rooms rather than huddle spaces — optical hybrid 18x zoom, 120° field of view and simultaneous USB, HDMI and IP output in one unit.
For rooms where the camera-to-far-seat run sits inside nine metres, the VB350 is the simpler answer: one box, one cable to the meeting PC, no ceiling audio to commission. Conversation View frames a two-person exchange automatically, Audio Framing+ recomposes the group as it changes, and the bar can be configured to ignore people shown on the room's own display so a face on screen is never framed as a participant.
Where the VB350 stops earning its keep: past nine metres, or in rooms where the far end regularly fails to be heard. At that depth the jobs separate — lens, ceiling audio and signal path — which is what the next section covers. The VB350 ships from Dubai stock.
Two components, two jobs — the answer past nine metres
The CAM570 and FONE700 pairing separates two jobs a single bar cannot handle at the same time: seeing the far end in detail, and hearing everyone above the ambient noise.
CAM570 carries dual 4K lenses and 12x optical zoom inside a 36X total reach. Built-in directional voice sensors locate the active talker up to ten metres and turn the lens without an operator — no keyboard shortcut, no IT involvement between one person speaking and the camera responding. Three simultaneous outputs sit on one installation: USB 3.1 for the meeting platform, HDMI for a confidence monitor or recorder, RJ45 for RTSP or RTMP streaming with PoE+ power and VISCA-over-IP control. A line-in reference input keeps the lens from tracking the room's own speakerphone when the remote side speaks. One distinction worth fixing before anything else: the voice sensors steer the lens only. Meeting audio — what Teams or Zoom actually hears — travels through the FONE700, not the camera.
FONE700 covers the audio field above the table. Up to four ceiling speakerphones daisy-chain across roughly forty metres of room with full-duplex audio, noise suppression, double-talk detection and de-reverberation. When paired with a CAM550, the ceiling system adds 3D audio tracking: it locates each talker's position in the room and steers the camera to them rather than simply reacting to the direction of sound.
That configuration runs in two modes. App Mode connects camera and speakerphone over USB and supports one or two CAM550 cameras — two independent angles covering opposite sides of a long table, or the presenter wall and the audience simultaneously. Camera Mode connects over the network, is configured once and does not require software running during the meeting; it also accepts steering from selected third-party ceiling systems already installed in the room, including Nureva, Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling 2, Shure MXA and Yamaha RM families.
One confirmation before specifying: at the top resolutions and frame rates, some CAM570 output combinations are mutually exclusive — picture-in-picture, the HDMI output and 4K IP streaming cannot all be assumed together. The design confirms which outputs the room needs at the same time — USB call, HDMI confidence monitor, IP stream or maximum resolution — and that is resolved at survey, not assumed from a spec sheet.
Both the CAM570 and the FONE700 ship from Dubai stock as one order.
One line on the BOQ — VC520 Pro3 and VC550 room kits
If the BOQ should carry one line rather than four, the VC520 Pro3 and VC550 are the answer. The VC520 Pro3 and VC550 bundle camera and speakerphone as complete kits — one SKU, one delivery from Dubai stock, one installation day.
VC520 Pro3 is a camera and speakerphone set for medium and large rooms with 36X total zoom and speakerphone coverage that extends to match room size. VC550 is the CAM550-based premium variant, with 3D ceiling-audio tracking when the FONE700 system is added.
The kit choice fits: one room, standard rectangular layout, procurement that needs a single line on the quotation. The component build fits: depth past twelve metres, existing ceiling microphones the camera needs to integrate with, multiple zones in one space, or simultaneous HDMI and USB output required at the same time. That distinction is worth confirming before the order rather than after the first call.
What voice tracking does down a long table
A twenty-seat boardroom has one problem a wide-angle bar cannot fix: the remote side watches a wide shot of distant heads rather than the person currently speaking. Voice-steered PTZ changes that. The CAM570 locates the active talker within ten metres and turns the lens to them — optical movement, not a software crop — so the remote participant sees a properly framed face.
Preset positions reinforce the behaviour. The head-of-table holds a fixed position for the chair; named presets cover the left flank, the right flank and the full-room overview; each fires automatically or on command without an operator in the room.
The equity effect matters. Framing the current speaker makes remote attendees participants rather than observers. A person who can see who is speaking and read their expression engages differently from one watching a static wide shot.
One line to carry forward: the lens turning is the camera's job. The audio that Teams or Zoom hears is the FONE700 speakerphone's job. A camera problem and an audio problem present differently, and knowing which component owns which signal is the first step in resolving either.
When this page is the wrong page
Three types of room start elsewhere.
A moving presenter — walking a stage, working a whiteboard, taking questions from an audience — is the venue-tracking camera class: Presenter Mode, Zone Mode and Hybrid Mode on AVer's PTC and TR range. The auto-tracking camera page covers that in full, including the depth ladder for venue sizes.
A room with a movable partition wall that creates two independent spaces or one combined space needs multiple cameras, a matrix routing box and preset-based mode switching. The divisible meeting room page addresses that architecture, what is confirmed, what needs site validation, and the three reference levels matched to combining frequency.
A standard six to sixteen seat room with normal ceiling height and no unusual depth is usually best served by an all-in-one video bar at a simpler price point. That comparison starts on the USB camera page. If none of those three apply, this is the right page.
Planning numbers, wide to the high side
The figures in the table below are planning bands, not shelf prices. They are set deliberately wide, weighted to the upper end, so a BOQ or budget estimate does not arrive short at quotation stage.
| What | UAE planning band | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| USB conferencing cameras — CAM520 Pro3 / CAM550 / CAM570 class | AED 4,900–8,900 | Camera unit; model inside the band confirmed against room depth |
| VB350 dual-lens video bar | AED 7,900–11,000 | Complete one-box answer for the 6–9 m band |
| VC520 Pro3 / VC550 room kits | Quoted against room size | Camera + speakerphone as one SKU from Dubai stock |
| CAM570 + FONE700 rooms | Project-banded | Camera, ceiling chain, cabling and installation specified together at survey |
| USB extension — UE1 / HUB35-EXT35 | Quoted with the run | USB 3.0 to roughly 100 m over CAT cabling where the PC sits far from the camera |
Room depth, mounting position, cable runs, ceiling height and the model mix all move the final number — both surprises are better discovered at quotation than at invoice. Send the room length, seating count and meeting platform on WhatsApp; the desk returns a quotation against current Dubai stock, typically the same day.
Long-room camera systems that ship beyond Dubai
Vector Digital Systems quotes large-room AVer systems for buyers outside the UAE as well, from Dubai stock and direct import. Three regions account for most of that reach.
Gulf & Middle East
Trading companies, government ministries and hotel groups across the Gulf order long-boardroom camera systems through this desk. Boardrooms of fifteen or more seats, majlis rooms needing optical reach to a wide table, and executive suites requiring ceiling-audio tracking all route from Dubai stock with export documentation handled on this side.
Recent long-room shipments and quotes cover Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Iraq and Jordan.
Export enquiryAfrica
Ministries, universities and corporate headquarters standardising large training rooms and boardrooms source through Dubai. Rooms where one USB camera covers twenty seats, or where ceiling audio replaces a passed-around table microphone, arrive as one consolidated shipment with commercial invoice and full customs paperwork.
Campus and head-office orders route to Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and South Africa.
Export enquirySouth & Central Asia · Caucasus
Corporate and government buildings across South and Central Asia and the Caucasus fit deep meeting rooms with optical-zoom cameras and ceiling-audio tracking. Orders consolidate through Dubai to reduce vendor count and freight complexity, with camera, ceiling audio and installation kit on one invoice.
Deep-room projects order into Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.
Export enquiryFrom buyers whose far seats came back
We had a fourteen-metre training room where the back three rows appeared as a blur on recordings. After the camera and ceiling speakerphones were installed, the far end is indistinguishable from the front rows on playback. Four months in, the training team stopped asking us to move anything.
An eighteen-seat boardroom where the remote side constantly asked people to repeat themselves. The lens turning to whoever was speaking — without a technician in the room — ended that pattern on day one. The first board meeting after installation ran forty minutes without a single “can you repeat that.”
The majlis was a long room with one microphone that got passed hand to hand. Two ceiling speakerphones now cover the full length and the camera follows the speaker. Three months later, nobody has touched a microphone or a camera control during a session.
Large rooms in the UAE — the working answers
What camera works for a 12 to 15 metre meeting room?
Why can't our video bar see or hear the back of the room?
CAM570 or VC520 Pro3 — which one for a long boardroom?
How far can the FONE700 ceiling microphones cover?
Do these cameras work with Microsoft Teams and Zoom?
Can one camera cover an L-shaped or very wide room?
What does a large-room AVer setup cost in Dubai?
Can the camera follow whoever is speaking without an operator?
Can we keep our existing Shure or Sennheiser ceiling microphones?
How long does installation take?
Which areas in the UAE does Vector Digital Systems cover for large room video conferencing?
Which countries does Vector Digital Systems export large room video conferencing systems to?
Where next, room planner?
AVer Video Conferencing Dubai
Six families mapped — the large room systems in full brand context with every depth class covered.
View the AVer Brand Guide →Auto Tracking Camera Dubai
When the presenter moves — ten tracking behaviours separated by venue type, from classroom to broadcast.
See Venue Tracking Cameras →Divisible Meeting Room Solutions
When the large room splits — matrix routing, camera reassignment and the survey questions that decide it.
See Divisible Room Designs →Camera & Ceiling Microphone Integration
Shure, Sennheiser, Nureva, Yamaha and ClearOne pairings — keeping the mics when the camera changes.
See the Pairing Map →AVer Boardroom Video Conferencing
Three boardroom compositions — the long table treated as an executive room, staged before handover.
See Boardroom Compositions →AVer CAM570
The voice-steered dual-lens PTZ at the heart of the large room architecture — full specifications and stock.
View the CAM570 Product Page →Send the room. Get the camera plan back.
Send the room length, the seating count and the meeting platform in use on WhatsApp, and Vector Digital Systems sends back a preliminary camera-coverage read — which depth band the room sits in, which architecture fits, and a planning band in AED, before any equipment gets quoted or a site visit gets booked. The first read costs nothing and commits to nothing.