In 1992, we had 50 customers requesting training. The room is also capable of providing soft-skills training to multiple sites around the world. According to Gary Kayye, the company's vice president of sales and marketing, a fully integrated facility is what gives the AMX Arena its edge.
Every manufacturer has a training facility, but most fall short of complete automation.
Here, each student has the ability to control and program the entire arena from their workstation. Part of their test is to re-program the entire room. In addition to an investment of nearly a quarter of a million dollars, the arena was built with many hours of sweat equity from the AMX staff. It also benefited from several donations from vendors wishing to showcase their latest advancements in audio, video, videoconferencing, projection and computer-networking equipment. The arena's workstations are arranged in a U-shape pattern, providing a lot of open space for interaction.