Item: Cisco Meeting Server
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have Cisco WebEx and Zoom subscriptions, but these are cloud based meeting providers. We were looking for a product which can be used to host meetings at on-premise to keep the data on-prem for security. We researched, apart from Cisco Meeting Server, only Poly had a similar solution but it was quite outdated.

Pros and Cons

Video meetings
Webrtc
audio meetings
cisco call manager integrations

a bit difficult to implement
maintenance
requires a technical resource with enterprise or partner

Return on Investment

We used it for most of the Board and exec meetings, which are quite a few in our business. Reduced travelling and saved costs
Implementation is a bit tedious and thus requires experts/partner
Requires expert people too manage unlike Webex/Zoom which are cloud based and don't have anything on-prem

Alternatives Considered

Poly Clariti (RealPresence Clariti)

Apart from Cisco Meeting Server, only Poly offers full fledged on-premise meeting server. Their solution is called Polycom RealPresence
Collaboration Server. But there solutions are mostly outdated. Even though they have recently changes to subscription via Poly Clarity but servers are still very old. Whereas Cisco Meeting Server was recently updated and integrates well with WebEx and Cisco's other products.

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Meeting Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Meeting Server's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Meeting Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Meeting Server go as expected?

Would you buy Cisco Meeting Server again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Webex App, Webex Calling, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Webex Room Series, Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6000), Cisco Business Edition 7000, Cisco Unified Contact Center, Webex Connect, Webex Contact Center, Genesys Cloud CX, Mitel MiCollab, Avaya Cloud Office, Five9, RingCentral Contact Center, NICE CXone, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco AnyConnect

Likelihood to Recommend

For any customer who is looking to keep their video meetings data on-premise, Cisco Meeting Server is the answer for that. Most customers want their board meeting information/recording should be on-premise as it might include secret stuff such as earnings data. They should look at it. Moreover, there is a solution called Video mesh by Cisco, wherein it can be integrated be WebEx for overflow, this can also be implemented.

Best On-premise based Meeting solution in the market

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meeting Server