Microsoft Teams Rooms vs. StarLeaf (discontinued)

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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StarLeaf is good because it is allowing our Company and global teams to create and conduct meetings and video calls. However, the mic often has issues as well as connection problems. The mobile app is excellent for joining the video conf calls.

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

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• Integrating teams around the world.
• The connection from StarLeaf to IBM Lotus Notes calendar is very useful.

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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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• The microphone has lots of issues, specially in the beginning of calls.
• Quality of the sound sometimes is not the greatest.

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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

Never used the StarLeaf support team.

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Cisco Webex, Zoom

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Microsoft Teams, when I used, was far better than StarLeaf, on video, sound, and feature connections.

Incentivized

• 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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• The capability of creating meetings with global teams.
• The connection with Lotus Notes calendar helps the team to manage the calendar and the meetings scheduled.

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