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EST. 2015 DTEN founded in San Jose by Wei Liu 2017 D5 ships - the first all-in-one Zoom device 2018 D7 invents the Windows all-in-one appliance 2021 Zoom makes strategic investment in DTEN 2024 Best of Show at InfoComm for Dual 75" wall NOW Certified for Zoom Rooms & Microsoft Teams Rooms EST. 2015 DTEN founded in San Jose by Wei Liu 2017 D5 ships - the first all-in-one Zoom device 2018 D7 invents the Windows all-in-one appliance 2021 Zoom makes strategic investment in DTEN 2024 Best of Show at InfoComm for Dual 75" wall NOW Certified for Zoom Rooms & Microsoft Teams Rooms
Company Profile · Collaboration Hardware · San Jose, CA

DTEN

The company that made the meeting room just work.

All-in-one video devices with 4K cameras, microphone arrays, and touch whiteboarding - built for hybrid teams and certified for both Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Founded 2015 HQ · San Jose, CA ~80 Employees Backed by Zoom
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DTEN, INC. — Video-first collaboration devices, engineered in San Jose since 2015. One touchscreen, one plug, no cable spaghetti.
By The Desk · Technology & Workplace
Filed: San Jose, California
Category — Company

In 2015, an engineer named Wei Liu kept watching the same small failure repeat itself: people walking into a conference room and losing the first five minutes of a meeting to cables, remotes, and the question of which input to select. Conference-room technology was unreliable, overly complex, and disconnected from the collaboration tools people actually used. His fix was not more software. It was a single piece of glass.

DTEN, the San Jose company he founded that year, builds all-in-one video conferencing and collaboration devices - large touchscreens with the camera, microphones, speakers, and whiteboarding built in - that aim to make joining a meeting as simple as touching the screen. Working closely with Zoom from the start, DTEN shipped its first product, the D5, in 2017, then went on to define an entire category of hardware for the way people meet now.

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What DTEN does

One device instead of a rack of them

A traditional meeting room is an assembly project: a display, a separate camera, a soundbar, a mic pod, a mini-PC or codec, a tangle of cables, and a control tablet - each from a different vendor, each a potential point of failure. DTEN's premise is that all of it belongs in one appliance that ships ready to run.

The company's flagship D7X folds a 4K camera, a 15-microphone array, stereo speakers, and a responsive touchscreen into a single unit. Walk up, tap once, and you are in a call. Draw on the screen and you have a whiteboard the remote participants can see and save. There is no separate box to configure and, ideally, no reason to file an IT ticket.

That simplicity solves a real and expensive problem. Rooms that are hard to use get avoided; meetings that start late waste the most costly resource in any company - people's time. And in a hybrid world, the person who is not in the room is the one who suffers most when the camera can't find the speaker or the whiteboard is a smudge on a webcam. DTEN designs for that remote participant as much as for the people around the table.

For the IT teams that own hundreds of these rooms, DTEN pairs the hardware with cloud-based device management: remote monitoring, health checks, diagnostics, and updates across an entire fleet. The buyer of a meeting device is rarely the person who sits in the meeting - and DTEN builds for the admin as deliberately as for the user.

DTEN designs innovative collaboration technology to make every connection meaningful. — DTEN, company mission
Products & services

The lineup

2017

DTEN D5

The breakthrough first product: touch, 4K resolution, and seamless Zoom integration in one all-in-one device.

2018

DTEN D7

The first Windows-based all-in-one video conferencing appliance - a category DTEN says it invented and still leads.

2022

DTEN D7X

Flagship display in 55", 75", and Dual 75" - 4K camera, 15-mic array, touch whiteboarding; Windows and Android editions.

2023

DTEN D7X AI

AI-enhanced edition adding smart framing and AI audio optimization for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms.

2024

DTEN Bar + Mate

All-in-one video bar for small and huddle rooms with the 10" DTEN Mate controller; certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms.

2021

DTEN ONboard & Cloud

Dedicated digital whiteboarding plus a cloud platform for remote device management, health monitoring, and support.

How it's different

Don't pick a side in the platform war

Dual-platform by design

Most buyers are torn between Zoom and Microsoft Teams. DTEN's answer is to ship one device certified for both Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms, letting IT choose - and change its mind later. Optionality is the feature.

  • Certified for Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms
  • Windows and Android editions of the D7X
  • Sizes from huddle-room bar to Dual 75" wall

All-in-one, not assembled

Rivals like Neat, Poly, Logitech, Cisco, and Yealink compete across cameras, bars, and boards. DTEN's distinct bet is the fully integrated touchscreen appliance - camera, mics, speakers, compute, and whiteboard in one plug-and-play unit.

  • Plug-and-play install, minimal setup
  • Built-in touch whiteboarding and annotation
  • Cloud device management for whole fleets

DTEN sits in the video-collaboration hardware market alongside the biggest names in unified communications - but reaches beyond the corporate boardroom. The same appliance that runs a Fortune 500 meeting shows up in K-12 and higher-education classrooms and in healthcare and telehealth settings, three very different worlds that share one problem: people who need to collaborate across distance.

Who uses DTEN

Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, schools and universities, and healthcare and telehealth providers - deployed globally across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.

  • Enterprise & government meeting rooms
  • K-12 and higher-education classrooms
  • Telehealth and clinical collaboration

The business model

DTEN sells hardware to businesses - direct and through channel partners and distributors such as CDW and Europe's DEKOM. Device sales across room sizes are complemented by management software, support and warranty services, and deep certification partnerships with Zoom and Microsoft.

The story so far

A decade of the all-in-one

2015

DTEN founded

Wei Liu starts DTEN in San Jose after seeing how unreliable and complex conference-room systems had become.

2017

DTEN D5 launches

The first all-in-one device combining touch, 4K resolution, and seamless Zoom integration ships.

2018

DTEN D7 debuts

The first Windows-based all-in-one video conferencing appliance - a category DTEN says it invented.

2021

Zoom invests in DTEN

Zoom announces a strategic financial and engineering investment to accelerate the product roadmap.

2022

DTEN D7X released

The flagship arrives with a 4K camera, 15-mic array, and multi-platform support in multiple sizes.

2024

Certification & awards

DTEN Bar with Mate earns Microsoft Teams Rooms certification; the Dual 75" wins Best of Show at InfoComm 2024.

Expertise & recognition

What DTEN is known for

Deep hardware craft

DTEN's roots are in touch-enabled hardware, and its edge is integration - fitting professional-grade optics, acoustics, and compute into a single serviceable appliance, then tuning the software experience on top with award-winning UI/UX.

  • 4K cameras with AI smart framing
  • Up to a 15-microphone array with echo cancellation
  • AI audio optimization and noise reduction

On the record

  • Invented the first all-in-one Windows video appliance (D7, 2018)
  • Strategic investment from Zoom, October 2021
  • Microsoft Teams Rooms certification across the D7X and DTEN Bar
  • Best of Show, InfoComm 2024, for the D7X Dual 75"
In 2015, founder Wei Liu recognized that conference-room systems were unreliable, overly complex, and disconnected from everyday collaboration tools. — DTEN company history
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Frequently asked

What does DTEN make?

DTEN designs all-in-one video conferencing and collaboration hardware - touchscreen appliances with built-in 4K cameras, microphone arrays, speakers, and whiteboarding - for meeting rooms of every size.

Who founded DTEN and when?

DTEN was founded in 2015 by Wei Liu, who serves as CEO. It is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Does DTEN work with Zoom or Microsoft Teams?

Both. Devices like the D7X and DTEN Bar are certified for Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms, so customers can choose their platform.

Is DTEN related to Zoom?

DTEN has partnered closely with Zoom since its founding, and Zoom made a strategic investment in DTEN in October 2021 - though DTEN remains an independent company.

Who uses DTEN products?

Enterprises, government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and healthcare and telehealth providers deploy DTEN devices globally for hybrid meetings.

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