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BNP Paribas

Equipment Specification

BNP Paribas is a leading global banking and financialservices group with more than 190,000 employees worldwide. In 2025, the bank consolidated several of its Midlands operations into a new landmark office in the heart of Birmingham’s business district, designed to foster collaboration, attract talent and reflect BNP Paribas’s forwardlooking brand.
  • Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Scope: 25+ meeting environments across 2 floors
  • Room Types:
    • POD rooms (4–8 seats)
    • Large divisible boardroom (18–36 seats)
    • Clientfacing meeting / presentation suites
    • Allhands / townhall space (120+ standing) with overflow to social hub
  • Primary Technologies:
    Cisco Room Series video codecs, retractable USBC “singlecable” table interfaces, Biamp AVB enabled DSP, Wall mounted zoned loudspeakers, wireless microphones, 4K commercial displays.

 

Challenge 

Impact 

Requirement 

Consistent user experience across varied room sizes 

Reduced adoption & increased support calls 

Unified, intuitive interface & common connection method 

Visible table clutter & multiple adapters 

Poor aesthetics, confusion for guests 

Single, retractable cable; BYODready 

Hybrid meeting equity for global teams 

Inefficient collaboration & client perception risk 

Native Microsoft Teams experience with optimized audio/video 

Rapid reconfiguration of boardroom & townhall 

Timeconsuming changeovers 

Automated scene presets that “follow the walls” & flexible audio zoning 

  • Room Design Matrix

Room Type Seating Core Video Codec Display Tech Table Interface 
POD 4–8 Cisco Room Bar 55″ and 65” 4K LED Retractable USBC (Thunderbolt & DP altmode) 
Boardroom (combined) 26 Cisco Room Kit Pro + Quad Camera Dual 75″ 4K LED Dual retractable USBC in each table segment 
Client Suite 4–12 Cisco Room Kit Plus 55” and 65” 4K LED Retractable USBC + Wireless presentation token 
TownHall 100+ Cisco Room Kit Pro + PTZ 98” 4K LED display Floor pocket USBC & wireless stage box 

  • Unified “SingleCable” Workflow

  1. Retractable USBC Cable extends from flush desk module.
  2. User plugs into laptop – routes video, audio & USB data over one cable.
  3. Cisco codec autodetects BYOD and switches room AV to laptop.
  4. Upon disconnect, cable retracts, returning table to clutterfree state.

  • BYOD & Platform Interoperability

Although BNP Paribas is a Microsoft Teams house, external guests frequently host Zoom and Webex calls. The Cisco RoomOS platform, paired with USB passthrough and the singlecable interface, enables:

  • Native Teams meetings (direct guest join)
  • One button to push for Webex & Zoom
  • Full-bandwidth content share (4K @60 Hz) from any user device.
  • 99 % firsttime meeting start success (Cisco Cloud analytics, first 60 days).
  • 45 % reduction in AVrelated service tickets compared with legacy site.
  • 15minute boardroom reconfiguration (vs. 45 minutes previously) thanks to partitionaware presets.
  • Positive user sentiment: Postoccupancy survey scored 4.7/5 for “ease of connecting & presenting”.
  • Enhanced client perception: Visiting clients highlighted the clean aesthetic and swift meeting setup as differentiators.

The networkcentric design (all AV endpoints on a dedicated AV VLAN, Dante audio, and SIPregistered codecs) provides a scalable backbone for:

  • Expansion of townhall streaming to remote offices.
  • AIbased camera framing & voice isolation upgrades.
  • Spaceutilisation analytics via existing occupancy sensors.
  • User simplicity drives adoption. A single retractable USBC cured cabling chaos and confusion.
  • Standardisation doesn’t mean one-size-fits-all. Consistent UI married to roomspecific acoustics & display choices.
  • Plan for flexibility. Partition logic and audio zoning futureproof large spaces without additional hardware.
  • Prototype early. Realworld cablepull tests avoided enduser frustration postinstall.

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