Best IT Company of the Year

PeopleLink won the Best IT Company of the Year category at the Time2Leap Awards, presented during the second edition of the MSME Innovation and Start-Up Summit.

Behind a recognition like this is a simple idea: an organisation that wants reliable collaboration should not have to assemble it from a dozen unrelated suppliers. PeopleLink is built to be the one company that owns the whole picture.

One OEM for the Whole Collaboration Stack

PeopleLink designs, assembles and manufactures the full range an organisation needs to meet and collaborate, the cameras, the audio, and the room conferencing endpoints, and builds the software that runs them. Because the parts are engineered together, the experience stays consistent from one room to the next.

The practical payoff is accountability. When a meeting room has a problem, there is one support path and one platform to update, not several vendors pointing at each other while the room sits idle.

Why Single-Vendor AV Wins for IT Teams

IT teams do not want to spend their week troubleshooting mismatched hardware. A single-OEM estate means a standard build they can repeat, firmware that stays aligned, and a predictable path when a room needs service or expansion. That is time the team can spend on its actual roadmap instead of AV firefighting.

It also makes budgeting and procurement cleaner, because the organisation is buying a coherent platform from one provider rather than stitching a solution together part by part.

From a Single Room to an Estate

The same approach scales. Define a room template by size, deploy it, and repeat it across floors and sites. A repeatable standard is easier to support and gives every employee the same experience whether they are in the head office or a branch. PeopleLink’s room endpoint range is built for exactly this kind of rollout.

What to Look for in an AV Technology Partner

When the field narrows, four questions separate a supplier from a partner. Does one company own the hardware and the software, so accountability is clear? Is there a repeatable standard build, or is every room a custom project? How aligned is firmware across the estate, and who keeps it current? And when a room fails, is there a single support path or a chain of vendors to chase?

PeopleLink is built to answer all four the same way: one OEM, one standard, one platform, one support path. That is what turns a purchase into a partnership an IT team can plan around for years, not just for the next room. Explore the collaboration platform behind it.

The Total Cost of a Single-OEM Estate

Sticker price is only part of the cost of a meeting-room estate. The expensive parts are usually invisible at purchase: the hours an IT team spends reconciling mismatched firmware, the meetings lost while vendors argue over whose component failed, and the cost of re-specifying every new room from scratch.

A single-OEM estate compresses those hidden costs. One standard build is cheaper to deploy and document, aligned firmware means fewer faults, and a single support relationship removes the coordination overhead of a multi-vendor stack. Over a few years, that predictability often matters more to the budget than the line-item price of any single device.

It also makes expansion a known quantity. Adding a room or a site follows a recipe the team already knows, instead of becoming another integration project to scope, price, and troubleshoot.

Frequently Asked Questions

It means PeopleLink designs, assembles and manufactures its own cameras, audio, and room endpoints and builds its own software, so an organisation can source the whole collaboration stack from one company with one support path.It gives a repeatable standard build, aligned firmware, and one point of accountability, which reduces support overhead and makes rollouts and expansion predictable.Yes, from small huddle spaces to large boardrooms and auditoriums, with the camera and audio matched to each room size and run on a common platform.