Wireless Display 101

Wireless Display 101
What is wireless display technology, and how it benefits any meeting room or classroom
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This course discusses how wireless display technology simplifies displaying
information in any meeting room or classroom. Whether the presenter is a business
leader, educator, or mobile worker, wireless display technology saves time and
money, eliminating all the typical frustrations of connecting to a display or projector.
Introduction
Wireless technology comes in many forms, but standards-based wireless display is
optimal for enterprise deployments. This course also introduces the Miracast
standard for wireless display, explains its benefits and provides actual use cases.

Sections
1. Understanding wireless display
2. Understanding the Miracast standard
3. Difference between wireless display and
consumer media players
4. Who uses wireless display?
5. Future proof wireless display investment
6. 5 things to remember

Understanding Wireless Display

Wireless Display Introduction
In any meeting or classroom,
being able to project information
onto a large display or projector
is a critical activity.
If you think about it, collaborating
or making decisions without
being able to share content,
ideas or knowledge is nearly
impossible.

Wireless Display Introduction
But connecting to a display or projector
from a laptop, tablet or a smartphone is
often an exercise in frustration, and
collectively wastes huge amounts of time.

Have any of these scenarios happened to you?
Your meeting gets delayed because:
User device
ports are
incompatible
Incorrect or
missing cables
and adapters
(forgot to bring
your cable!)
Incorrect
display
settings
Devices lack
display ports

What Wireless Display Does
Wireless display lets users wirelessly duplicate content
from a laptop, tablet or smartphone to a display or
projector without any cables or adapters.

The Payoffs of Wireless Display
No more worries about:
• Missing or incorrect cables or adapters
• Whether the presenter’s device has a
VGA, DP or HDMI port
And the benefits:
• Ability to move freely around the room
while presenting, and seamlessly switch
presenters
• More natural engagement and
collaboration with audience members
leads to better outcomes
Wireless display technology eliminates
connectivity issues and boosts
collaboration in meetings and
classrooms….

Understanding the Miracast Standard

Why Are Wireless Display Standards Important?
It is only through the use of global standards that basic IT requirements of
interconnectivity and interoperability can be met, and avoid:
incompatibility issues across
a broad range of user
hardware and displays
requiring special
hardware
for transmission
No Standards:
Expensive Problems
using proprietary radios that
may reduce the organization’s
Wi-Fi performance
STANDARDS

What is Miracast?
Miracast is a technology standard – not a device – that enables
wireless display connectivity. The standard has been ratified by the
Wi-Fi Alliance and is native in millions of modern devices worldwide.

Why Miracast
It has broad support
across global OEM’s
and vendors. It’s not
tied to any specific
hardware.
It supports Windows 10,
8.1 and Android (4.2 and
later) devices, and older
Windows devices can use
an adapter to use
Miracast.
Built into modern Windows
devices means compatibility
across a broad range of
devices. Users are not
forced to install and run
applications.

And Even More Benefits…
Miracast sets up a
direct connection
between a device and
the Miracast Receiver
(peer-to-peer) to
wirelessly mirror
everything from one
screen to another;
creating its own in-room
Wi-Fi network.
Miracast does not rely on
an existing network, and
doesn’t need a wireless
access point. This is a
huge advantage for
commercial and education
environments because it
allows heavy video traffic
to be moved off the
network.
Peer-to-peer connection
provides superb user
experience with nearly
zero latency.
Miracast will allow
DRM protected
digital content
because it’s
security features
allow for it.

Wireless Display vs. Consumer
Media Players

Commercial Solutions vs Consumer Devices
We get asked this question a lot because on
first glance, some consumer devices such
as Google Chromecast, appear to be a
viable wireless display option.
However, unlike Miracast, these consumer
devices are simple dongles that plug into
HDMI ports on TVs and use your network to
access the Internet.
While a great option for streaming of
entertainment in the home, there are big
challenges and risks in business and
commercial environments.

Consumer Devices Come with Big Limitations
Simply put, these devices can create
serious issues in enterprise environments.
They lack enterprise-class security. The
devices don’t support WPA2 which is widely
used by schools and businesses to
authenticate devices.
Potentially putting wireless networks at risk
for denial-of-service attacks and other
potential security risks.

Consumer devices do not include device
management capabilities.
Imagine an impossible situation where IT is
responsible for managing hundreds of
consumer devices across campuses or
meeting rooms without the ability to control
these devices centrally.
Doesn’t it make better sense to invest in
solutions designed to scale and grow with
the addition of new services and features?

Last point is consumer devices rely on an Internet
connection to stream content. This can cause interference
with Wi-Fi data and a poor user experience.
In contrast, Miracast does not rely on an
existing network, so there’s no impact on
company bandwidth.
Best of all, Miracast wireless display technology is natively
supported across a broad range of device types including
Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Android 4.2 and later.
Older Windows 7 devices can take advantage of wireless
display with the additional of a Miracast-enabled USB
dongle, such as the ScreenBeam USB Transmitter 2.
Learn more at What is Miracast?

Who Uses Wireless Display?

Modernize Meeting Rooms to Increase Productivity
When “modern” conference room
technologies started taking over in the
late 80s and 90s, they brought with them
wires, wires, everywhere.
Today, one of the best pieces of
wireless tech you can incorporate into
your conference room is wireless
display technology.

Modernize Meeting Rooms to Increase Productivity
With wireless display technology,
business professionals gain:
• Fast and easy wireless content sharing
• Freedom to move around the room
• Ability to actively engage and collaborate
with audience
• Capacity to quickly switch from one
presenter to another
No more wasted time looking for the
right cable or shuffling seats to sit near
the projector.

Real Cost of Late Meeting Starts
Have you ever thought about the real
cost when meetings start late?
The ability to connect wirelessly
across devices improves productivity
and collaboration, reduces frustration
and lost time, and has real
measurable cash value to users.
Think about this:
If each meeting begins by spending ten minutes working out the
connectivity— and each meeting is attended on average by five
employees—that’s 50 minutes of lost productivity per meeting.
Multiply that by the total number of meetings a day, and it adds
up to a very significant number.

Real Cost of Late Meeting Starts
Wireless display eliminates time lags that cut into the first few
minutes of your meetings because of compatibility issues.
These few minutes saved, compound into hours of
productivity year-round.

It’s Broken
If there are 4 meetings in a
meeting room a day, and it takes
5 minutes to start a meeting with
five people*, the costs add up:
The COST OF LATE
MEETING STARTS
Calculate your wireless
display ROI
1 Meeting Room* 100 Meeting Rooms*
$84 lost per day $8,334 per day
417 hours lost per year
416,667 hours lost
per year
$20,834 lost per year $2,083,334 lost per year
$104,167 lost over
five years
$10,416,667 lost over
five years
* Assumes average annual salary of $XX,XXX/year

Interactive Learning for the 21st Century Classroom
Untethering teachers has become the standard way of delivering
content in many of today’s modern classrooms. With mobility, the
teacher can walk around and interact with students instead of being
tied to a computer or a projector.

Improving the Learning Environment
Think about the typical
traditional classroom and
curriculum scenario
A teacher stands in front of a class
and lectures, possibly using a white
board or a projector.
Students are called on by the teacher
to answer questions, but many are not
engaged and are simply tuned out.
This scenario restricts meaningful
collaboration and learning in so
many ways.

Out with the Old, In with the New
Untethers teachers from
displays or projectors to
move freely around
classrooms
Allows teachers to provide
individual attention without
interrupting lessons
Enables proximity control
to more easily monitor
students and help off-task
students refocus
Supplements core
curriculum with
interactive online
content
Allows for student-led
and more
personalized
learning

Empower Teachers to Bring Curriculum to Life
ScreenBeam’s David Lopez and Jessie Boyce, Microsoft Innovative
Educator Expert share actionable ways teachers can amplify the
value of ScreenBeam to create authentic student engagement.
Watch the Webinar recording

Future Proof Your Wireless
Display Investment

Future Proof Wireless Display Investment
Making the right investments for
your organization is important if
you want solutions that will stand
the test of time. That’s why we
make the argument to invest in
commercial-quality standards-
based wireless display solutions.
Maybe your organization has
already considered whether to
allocate budget either towards
expensive “smart boards” or a
high-quality, touch-enabled
“dumb” display that costs much
less, but lacks intelligence.
ScreenBeam solves this
dilemma. Simply connect a
ScreenBeam receiver to a
“dumb” touch-enabled display
and make it an extension of
your intelligent device.

Even better, Windows 10 plus
ScreenBeam wireless display is the only
enterprise-class combination to natively
support UIBC (User Input Back Channel)
wireless touch and touch back.
Presenters now can be mobile while
still keeping the benefits of an
interactive touch screen display.
Consider how this fundamentally
changes the dynamics in both meeting
rooms and classrooms.

Classroom use case
The teacher instructs a student to display their Biology presentation onto the classroom
touch display so the entire class can view it for discussion. By using the digital ink tools
native in Windows applications, the teacher can annotate comments and questions from the
room’s touch screen directly back to the student device.
The transformative magic comes from the combination of Windows 10 + UIBC support in
ScreenBeam receivers.

Now, comments are
instantly captured and
saved onto the student
screen, even if the
student device is not
touch-enabled.
The student can
annotate a response
on their screen,
which appears in
real-time on the
classroom display.
One big benefit for
teachers is that a
student can share
content from their desk.
A second benefit is
that wireless display
enables front of room
collaboration for an
interactive experience.
Watch a teacher and student use touch and touchback
Read how ScreenBeam serves as a mobile document camera

Wireless display digitally
transforms meetings
where everyone is
organized, all ideas, notes,
images, and documents
are tracked and allows for
on-the-spot collaboration.
ScreenBeam takes care of the
connectivity and enables the
power of interactive touch for
real-time sharing and
collaboration.
Team members make their
annotations directly on the main
touch display, and touchback
sends all the data back to the
original device in real-time.
Meeting room use case

Office 365 Better With Wireless Display
Saving and sharing
are simple with
OneNote.
Everyone is
connected and on-
track because their
Windows 10 devices
are natively equipped
with the latest
Miracast technology
and their favorite
Microsoft applications
support digital inking.
Team members are
free to move about
the room, and there’s
no slowdown finding
and connecting cords.
Read How Windows
Ink & Interactive
Touch Are Digitally
Transforming
Meetings

5 Things to Remember About Wireless Display with Miracast
So whether you’re using wireless display with Miracast to enable workplace transformation or to
bring your classroom into the 21st century, remember these 5 key points:
Eliminates cables and adapters to wirelessly mirror what’s on the screen of one device onto another
screen for easy viewing and access1
Removes infrastructure costs and impact on network bandwidth of non-standard based solutions that
require Internet access network offload2
Provides a great return on investment by helping meetings start on time and keeping workforce teams productive
3
Gives presenters freedom to move around the room, engaging and collaborating with their audience members
4
Innovative features such as interactive touch help to future proof your wireless display investment
5

ScreenBeam Wireless Display
EASY to use
EASY to manage
EASY to deploy

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