Cisco Room Series vs. Extron Collaboration Systems

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Room Series
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The Cisco Room Series is a video conferencing solution that wakes up when users walk into a meeting room where it is installed and provides theater-quality voice and video, as well as content sharing from personal devices. For small to medium rooms with 6-8 people, there's Cisco Room 55, and for larger rooms of 7-14 people there's Cisco Room Kit (camera and codec in one device) and Cisco Kit Plus (separate codec plus and quad camera). Any of these systems can be run in the cloud or on-premises.N/A
Extron Collaboration Systems
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Extron, headquartered in Anaheim, has wired or wireless systems that are designed to make collaboration easy for huddle rooms, conference rooms and classrooms. . For stand-alone wireless collaboration the ShareLink wireless collaboration gateway allows small to medium size groups to work together with minimal wiring and AV infrastructure. For wired collaboration Extron TeamWork is a collaboration system that adapts to evolving collaboration needs in both corporate and education applications.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Room SeriesExtron Collaboration Systems
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Room SeriesExtron Collaboration Systems
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Cisco Room SeriesExtron Collaboration Systems
Considered Both Products
Cisco Room Series
Chose Cisco Room Series
Cisco Webex Room Series has the largest range of room options in a suite that is cohesive, global, and centralized. The hardware has a long service life [and] is quick to deploy, reliable, and easy to manage.
Extron Collaboration Systems

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User Ratings
Cisco Room SeriesExtron Collaboration Systems
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(87 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(76 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(75 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Room SeriesExtron Collaboration Systems
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
We had a conference room with a Radvision board that needed to be replaced. Our HQ is not fully Cisco but rather a mish mash of different products such as Rally bars, Poly, Radviison and Cisco. Putting Cisco into the conference room allowed us to have a single pane of glass for our needs.
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Extron
it is great for classrooms espically math and science when you need to collaborate quickly and have everyone see the difference in thoughts.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Captures everyone in the room with its wide angle camera automatically.
  • Counts the number of people in the video meeting.
  • Puts the camera focus on the person who is speaking.
  • Enhances the live meeting video experience with its AI features.
  • Removes the overheads of manually setting up cameras and adjusting them.
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Extron
  • wireless transmission
  • secure connection and limiting others who are not supposed to hook in to the system
  • works with lots of different technology types phones tablets ...
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Cons
Cisco
  • Perhaps any downside I might see is not necessarily with this product, it's more interoperability with other products. And I think these are all roadmap items that are being addressed. For instance, when you're in a Cisco meeting, it's not as feature rich as it might be as if you joined from a computer. However, as I said, these seem to be roadmap items which are coming along soon. Things like integration with the text or chat rather in a meeting, and also whiteboard integration.
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Extron
  • better interface
  • smoother way to switch out from different presentations
  • more customizable interface
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
By the time we are up for an upgrade, this particular series of products might not even been in the market. The typical product cycle for such products in the market are about 5 years. More importantly, the codec supported by such devices may also change by the time we are up for an upgrade. Even so, getting this system to a level of functionality we require was a frustrating ordeal that I do not look forward to during the next cycle.
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Extron
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Usability
Cisco
A lot of the features are really easy. You can just click connect and you're in. But using all of these other integrations and all these other features that are there, it's kind of the blind leading the blind as to how we use it. So it's probably the downside of it.
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Extron
it is easy to train teacher on how to use it and makes the teaching environment engaging for the students.
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
Once the order was place we received very quickly
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Extron
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Performance
Cisco
Great product with a great user experience
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Extron
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Support Rating
Cisco
Cisco has always stood out for the excellent support and documentation on its products, this is one of the reasons why they are so well positioned. The means by which you can create a case and the response times are very good. I especially like the support through the Webex teams.
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Extron
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
Very easy to implement. Integration into our Unified Communications platform was simple and quick
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Extron
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
As a partner, I always used mainly Cisco products and offered them to my customers. I have personal experience with Avaya, Team and polycom but non of them provided me with the Premium feelings which Cisco does. Even the product quality and look of the product by itself gives you the premium experience. But I want to mention that Polycom has some features and easy setup which Cisco lacks sometimes. It is mainly 3rd party integration.
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Extron
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Scalability
Cisco
The product and backend systems are designed to scale from small to very large organization seamlessly and easily
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Extron
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • The Cisco MTRoA solution has reduced the time it takes for our users to join their meeting and spend more time concentrating on business rather than the technology.
  • It simply works.
  • Ease of support.
  • We also appreciate the great support we get from intelligent folks in Cisco TAC organization.
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Extron
  • better learning environment
  • ease of use
  • inexpensive solution
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