LoopUp vs. Microsoft Teams Rooms

It's fantastic for folks who have conference calls with folks outside your organization throughout the day. It does not have a video option though, so if you need that, look elsewhere. After each call, I get an email "receipt" which shows the length of the call and all participants.

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We use Microsoft Teams Rooms across all of our main conference suites. This ensure our staff have consistent meeting experiences in out part of the education sector - meetings generally become hybrid fairly frequently and can even extend to pupils or staff working from home. We did try some of the poly equipment in a classroom environment but due to noise levels and the amount of pupils and staff it quickly became a non starter. We were advised to stick with participant numbers aligned to our purchased hardware before we tried this.

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• Easily connect and identify users
• Allows for Screen Sharing
• Moderator can manage those in the call

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• Video and audio recording.
• Sharing content.
• Stable connection.
• Webinar features.

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• The cost may be higher than a traditional conference line.

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• We would like to see a view which focuses on each individual and places them in a separate frame for an immersive experience.
• It should connect to the Teams app in laptop as soon as we enter the room using some medium like mic audio.
• Low bandwidth consumption codec to be developed to allow good quality video conferencing even in low bandwidth networks.

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Hardware dependance: important to have the right certified hardware such as cameras, microphones which can limit flexibility. User onboarding and learning curve of using the product as with any new integration takes time. Therefore, maybe thinking about a more intuitive approach could help on an easier ramp up for 1st time users

Loopup is a cheaper alternative than GoToMeeting. You do sacrifice some of the features, but for most staff requiring a dial in and screen sharing it does the job. If cost reduction is at the forefront, you may want to look more seriously at LoopUp as a screen sharing tool.

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Cisco Webex, Zoom

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• Everyone loves it and raves about the easy of use.
• Reliability, more than previous product.

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• Increase in Staff confidence to use meeting equipment
• less "device failures" during meetings
• More and more staff have reduced the need to travel to each of our sites for a meeting.

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