Polycom CX5100 Prospecto

Follow these best practices to ensure that your 
CX5100 system effectively tracks speakers and 
participants during conference calls.

● Make sure there are no items between your 

mouth and the microphones. For example, move 

your laptop so that it does not block you when you 

speak.

● Face the CX5100 system, not the whiteboard or 

the wall, when you stand at the front of a small 

conference room to speak. Facing the wall can 

cause echoes that interfere with the active 

speaker tracking.

Red

Microphone muted

Flashing 
red

Ringing with microphone muted, call on 
hold

Flashing 
green/red

Software update in progress

Off

Not in a call, no video in a 
call 

Green

In an active video call

Flashing

Privacy cap is closed

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October 2014

For more information about setting up and using the system, refer to the Support pages at 

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The Polycom CX5100 Unified Conference Station lets 
you use the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft 
Lync voice, video, and content while automatically 
tracking the flow of conversation to enable richer, 
more interactive communication.

The following figure shows the parts of the CX5100 
system that includes the cameras, microphones, and 
speakers.

1

Camera Cover 

2

Cameras

The indicator lights on the CX5100 system let you 
know when the system is sending audio or video in 
video calls, the microphones are muted, or the 
system is updating. See the following tables for 
information on the microphone and video indicator 
lights.

3

Active video indicator

4

Microphones

5

Speaker

6

Microphone mute buttons and status 
indicators

7

USB 3.0 Type B connection to computer

8

USB 2.0 connector for USB flash drive

Off

Not in a call 

Green

In a call

Flashing 
green

Ringing

Slow 
flashing 
green

System is starting up