Cisco Room Series vs. GoTo Room

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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It works really well in a one on one settings when teachers are coordinating with individual trainers or workshops. It can be helpful as well during a team setting Q&A for follow up training. However, it is a struggle to use in large group settings when one presenter is speaking to a large group of people for trainings.

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• 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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• Video conferencing is clear and precise
• Scheduling is emailed and easy to access.
• The ease of getting used to the program is quick for all of our teachers.

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• 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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• Learning how to work through multiple documents or presentations in a call can be tricky.
• Our rural setting does not allow for consistent internet connection, video is not always clear.
• Audio can be limited to a large room setting in workshops.

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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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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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Once the order was place we received very quickly

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Great product with a great user experience

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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.

Haven’t had a chance to need to connect with the service staff as we haven’t had to deal with any large issues beyond internet bandwidth restrictions. However, we feel like support would be very quick and efficient if we were to need it. The observations of setting up our doc cams and getting connected with workshop presenters has been smooth so far.

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Very easy to implement. Integration into our Unified Communications platform was simple and quick

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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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GoToRoom does a great job of video conferencing with multiple users, similar to Zoom, but has easier access to documents similar to Google Classroom or Google Hangouts. It’s a nice blend of these three pieces of software.

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The product and backend systems are designed to scale from small to very large organization seamlessly and easily

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• 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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• It has been helpful for us to connect with professional development consultants that are out of our region.
• It has provided opportunities for teachers to get training that otherwise would not have had an opportunity without driving long distances.

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