Managing modern meeting rooms at scale is a complex challenge for IT departments. As collaboration devices continue to become essential extensions of the network, the need for deep visibility and intelligent automation has never been greater. At Cisco, we are redefining this experience through Webex Control Hub, turning complex management into a streamlined, AI-driven process.
Webex Control Hub serves as the central command for your collaboration ecosystem. By providing a unified view of your meeting rooms, it allows IT teams to monitor critical metrics, ranging from air quality and temperature to call quality and occupancy all in one place. With integrated insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and Cisco Spaces, Control Hub gives you the complete visibility required to ensure that every meeting space is performing at its peak.
Optimize your environment with Workspace Advisor
We are excited to highlight the General Availability of Workspace Advisor in Control Hub.
Workspace Advisor creates a digital replica of your physical room live inside of Control Hub to unlock deep visibility into your room dimensions, services, and hardware setups. Alongside this visibility comes new insights:
- Is everyone picked up by the camera(s)?
- Is the microphone coverage broad enough to pick up every voice?
- Is the meeting zone configured correctly?
- Is the room accessible?
Workspace Advisor doesn’t just report data; it provides actionable, intelligent suggestions to improve your room configurations. By visualizing coverage for video, audio, and displays, it ensures that your meeting rooms are perfectly optimized for the best possible end-user experience. These insights help you create high-performing spaces that people love to use, right from the start.
The Future of Management: AI Agent Integrations
As we integrate AI into our daily lives, we’ve grown accustomed to using natural language to retrieve information and solve problems. IT administrators are no exception, and they increasingly expect that same consumer-grade experience in their professional tools. Earlier this year we introduced AI Agent Integrations, an industry-first approach to AgenticOps, that allows you to extend the power of Control Hub into your favorite conversational AI tools. Imagine moving from 10 clicks to a single prompt to retrieve device insights or workspace analytics. By using natural language, IT administrators can ask specific questions and receive lightning-fast, targeted answers. Control Hub workspaces and devices data will be integrated with the Control Hub AI Assistant, Amazon Quick, and Microsoft Copilot. As of now, you can experience this within Control Hub with the general availability of Control Hub AI Assistant – with Amazon Quick and Microsoft Copilot coming soon.
You can soon find our MCP on the developer portal – allowing any organization to use our MCP with whichever agentic interface they want to use to create a custom agent!
Whether it is the immediate, data-driven optimization provided by Workspace Advisor or the upcoming efficiency of AI Agent Integrations, Cisco is committed to reducing IT overhead and empowering teams to manage workspaces with unprecedented ease. As industry experts continue to recognize Cisco as a leader in smart collaboration devices, we remain focused on one goal: ensuring that your technology works as hard as you do.
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