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Solstice Pod Quickstart Guide

 

 

 

 
The Solstice Pod connects to a meeting-room display and leverages existing WiFi/Ethernet networks to facilitate wireless 
content sharing and collaboration. This document provides technology managers with instructions for evaluating, 
deploying, and managing one or more Pods.  
 

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Using Solstice: 

If you are already in a Solstice-enabled room and looking for information on how to use Solstice to 

share content and collaborate, please go to our 

Quickstart Guide

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Security Guidelines: 

For information on deploying Solstice in a security-conscious environment, please refer to the 

Solstice Pod Baseline Security Standard (BSS) 

document.  

 

Specs and Reference Info: 

For hardware specifications and a detailed list of configuration options and other 

reference info, check out th

Solstice Pod Specs and Reference Material

. 

 

Deployment Overview:

 See all the components of a Solstice deployment and find documentation in our 

Deployment Overview

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Table of Contents  

Scenario 1: Trying Out the Pod for the First Time

 

Scenario 2: Your Initial Rollout

 

Scenario 3: Large-Scale Deployment

 

Scenario 4: Long-Term Deployment Management

 

 

 

 

Pod Quickstart Guide 

Updated January 25

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, 2019 

Summary of Contents for Solstice Pod

Page 1: ...laborate please go to our Quickstart Guide Security Guidelines For information on deploying Solstice in a security conscious environment please refer to the Solstice Pod Baseline Security Standard BSS...

Page 2: ...ith both the wireless access point enabled and Ethernet ready to support DHCP You ll have a chance to change these settings based on your deployment plans later Notice that the welcome screen instruct...

Page 3: ...obile app For full rollout and deployment Pods should be deployed on internet enabled networks See Scenarios 2 and 3 in this guide for more information Although Solstice users don t need to download t...

Page 4: ...he Enter IP option and type the IP address visible on the Solstice Pod welcome screen To learn more about setting up SDS see the Make Pods Available for Discovery section in Scenario 2 or refer to the...

Page 5: ...second device available connect to the Pod from that device too and share something to see how different users are represented on the shared display Step 5 Control your Posts By selecting Layout in t...

Page 6: ...siderations However it s also important to think through each rollout consideration within the context of your organization and involve the appropriate stakeholders such as the IT department for attac...

Page 7: ...e in the deployment space To attach the Pod wirelessly to the host network go to the Network tab of the configuration panel select the correct network and enter the network credentials Dual Networks M...

Page 8: ...ce Address field Universal SDS Override with DNS Entry With this option users will not be required to enter the SDS host IP address in order to leverage the non broadcast discovery that SDS provides F...

Page 9: ...eds of Pods so ongoing long term management is important In this section we ll cover the tools and resources available to support long term deployments The Solstice Dashboard The Solstice Dashboard is...

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