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.
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 …
We were using Polycom group series and poly studio earlier for P2P meetings but after covid scenario totally changed, we are using MS Teams as a main platform for meetings & messaging. Now, the challenge for us to join teams meeting from VC devices. Gradually online meetings …
Compared to its competitors, Cisco equipment stands out due to the quality of the components it consists of. Absolutely any of their devices is the Rolls-Royce of video conferencing equipment. I would also like to note the extreme ease of setting up the devices. Cisco's …
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We have used many of the older range of endpoints from Cisco and Polycom. The Room Series, being newer hardware are much more capable devices and support many newer features.
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I haven't had a lot of exposure with other teleconference systems. They've all just been little custom jobs with a camera and a computer. So yeah, not much of a comparison.
They provide quality and superb after-sales support. The durability and reliability of the solution are very commendable, especially in the corporate. High impact technology where company can easily scale up when they start entry-level products of Cisco.
It's not the fairest stack up, since Logitech MeetUp or Rally are not autonomous devices but accessories to a computer or similar device. Besides, the user experience is not even close to any Cisco device.Logitech really becomes an alternative as a cheaper tool, particularly …
The video quality is superior to that of the poly studio, the way of operating the devices is very different since the room kit series are professionals compared to the poly studio since it is only like a PC peripheral.
The Cisco Webex Room Kit definitely has higher-quality audio and video. The integration with our Control Hub has allowed us to customize much of the experience and get valuable insights via analytics. The Webex Assistant has been great as well, as we can say various …
The Webex Room Kit is without a doubt a much higher quality experience with audio and video. Especially with the recent enablement of USB passthrough mode in certain models, there is almost no comparison. Cisco has committed to the Room Kit being an open solution that will …
Being a Cisco focused company where we use Jabber, Webex, and other Cisco hardware, the WebEx Room Series fits well into our environment and provides the seamless user experience we would need using the least resources to host and join meetings within the company, as well as …
Lifesize units were clunky and not efficient. Logitech Rally Kit works well for one solution at a time but does not allow users to join ANY meeting other than the hardened MS Teams solutions
The operation that it has is very similar, the reason why it is decided to acquire the room kit is that our company manages the Cisco portfolio which makes it easier to acquire and renew all our equipment every 3 years but we could use a cop if we do not have everything …
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When it comes to compatibility with other systems, the Cisco Webex Room Series offers the most leeway. Without an additional Cisco license, the Room Series can connect to Zoom and Microsoft Teams rooms. When compared to our product, the alternatives from other manufacturers …
The Cisco Webex Room Series is the most flexible in terms of interoperability. The Room Series can join both Zoom and Teams rooms without requiring any extra Cisco licensing. The other vendors either don't work at all or require extra licensing in some cases
We tend to purchase the Cisco Webex Room Series for larger rooms with the dual-screen option (ie: 55 or 70-inch dual screens). We're able to duplicate the output on each screen for local presentations and if on a video call the participants will show up on the left screen …
CWRS stacks up against mentioned software as it provides a full experience on communication and real-time collaboration. Other software commonly present the following issues that CWRS does not:
Session 30min limit.
No bilateral control request.
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The Cisco room kits it a cut above the rest of the competition, the interface is easy to use and intuitive. The video quality is best in class. I would recommend that you get one or more if you run any sort of remote training or town halls
The interface of Cisco Webex [Room Series] is far better than the rest [of the] three mentioned above. The clarity of sound and voice is also good, which makes communication easy and simple. It is a professional product that is widely being used by mostly all the customers …