Cisco Desk Series vs. Poly Studio Series

Cisco Desk Series

Cisco Desk Series

113 Reviews and Ratings

Poly Studio Series

Poly Studio Series

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Desk Series	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	A whiteboarding, videoconferencing and a second laptop display in one single device. The Cisco Desk Series delivers a collaboration experience to desks, in shared spaces, or small huddle spaces. Models include the Desk Pro, Desk, and Desk Mini. All Desk devices have advanced audio intelligence built in for distraction free meetings, a USB-C connection to pair devices wirelessly or dock a laptop.	N/A
Poly Studio Series	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Poly Studio series are meeting room / video conferencing hardware solutions. The Studio X series, through Poly's collaboration with Appspace, aim to improve employee communications with a digital signage solution.	$2,200 one-time fee

Pricing

Cisco Desk Series

Poly Studio Series

Editions & Modules

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Poly Studio X30: $2,200
one-time fee
Poly Studio X50: $3,500
one-time fee
Poly Studio X70: $7,499.95
one-time fee

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Desk Series	Poly Studio Series
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Cisco Desk Series	Poly Studio Series
Considered Both Products	Cisco Desk Series Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series As I said, we are a reseller of a wide range of Cisco products in the enterprise market. So the bread and butter product is Cisco Meraki, Cisco SD-WAN for security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Series, Cisco Board Series, Cisco Desk Camera and Cisco Headsets Incentivized Helpful? Wayne De Nardi Senior Manager SA Digital Telehealth Network Chose Cisco Desk Series Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series We also have Zoom softphone that we use. We also have our Cisco IP communicators, which act as just a softphone of that desk phone, but we have Zoom, and we used to have Skype for Business. So those are the ones that we've dealt with in the past. I'd rather have Cisco over the … Incentivized Helpful? EB Eric Breeden Sr VoIP Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series Small form factor, personal video experience, professional grade equipment. The Webex Control Hub does an outstanding job managing software updates and user policies for the device. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series The Cisco Webex Desk Pro is a built-for-purpose device. As such, it simply works better than those systems that don't have similar, built-for-purpose devices. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series It’s integrated in Control Hub Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series Deskpro Incentivized Helpful? Dainius Brazdzionis Business Unit Manager Chose Cisco Desk Series Tried HP monitor AiO, Polycom device, and Logitech devices. Tried AiO monitors, and the sound was not sufficient. Tried the camera, microphone, speakers, and dock and it was very messy with too many wires, and the configuration needed a desk. Pro has a big benefit in that can … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Jackson System Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series At first, it was picked because it could work with several other conference tools. While the Room gadgets are indeed remarkable, the Webex ecosystem as a whole is still immature and could use some fine-tuning. We looked into other options, including Cisco Unified … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series Zoom UI is complicated. It has many features but it is difficult to identify the what is where. It's all included in one big screen which makes it less convenient to use. Whereas in the case of the cisco webex desk pro, it's pretty simple and convenient. The immaculate loading … Incentivized Helpful? IM Ian Measures Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series Dependent upon customer requirements and price threshold. All have different benefits within their chosen sales spheres. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series Organisation decided to went ahead with Cisco Webex Desk Pro becase of these following key differences: 1.- Microphone: Advanced noise-canceling microphone array vs Built-in microphone with Logitech MeetUp. 2.- Speakers: Superior Sound system vs Built-in speakerphone with … Incentivized Helpful? Amritansu Sahoo Co-Founder Chose Cisco Desk Series Cisco Webex Desk Pro provides better features more so than Zoom Events but Zoom Events had much lesser pricing and was pocket friendly. Cisco Webex Desk Pro is more sophisticated and more professional it also provides better audio and video quality during virtual meetings. All … Incentivized Helpful? TC Thomas Chowdhury Teaching Assistant Chose Cisco Desk Series Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Incentivized Helpful? CC chirag chhatbar Senior Advisor Chose Cisco Desk Series The Cisco Webex Room Phone has been widely used in the company where we have folks from the technical support team, resolving the technical issue for the client on the call and making them understand some features of our products as per the scheduled time and availability … Incentivized Helpful? Pratham Radadiya Full Stack Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series NICE Employee Virtual Assistant (NEVA) Incentivized Helpful? BA Balthasar-Max Althaus Business Trainer & Business Coach Chose Cisco Desk Series I have been using Webex Board and it simply does not fit into my room at home, where I [have mainly worked] since the pandemic. Desk Pro meets all requirements and can do the same things the Webex Board can do and more. So I don't miss a thing when I use Desk Pro. Incentivized Helpful? JS Jens Schneider Architecture Lead Collaboration Chose Cisco Desk Series The DX80 is no a little bit outdated. We were happy with it but needed a replacement. The Webex Desk Pro was the obvious successor. We also tried to use standard webcams with monitors. But this was hard to manage and troubleshoot. And it has a poor user experience. Incentivized Helpful? Stefano Rodighiero Customer Support System Engineer - Network, Data Center, Collaboration Chose Cisco Desk Series The Cisco Webex Desk Pro is an advanced collaboration device that integrates a strong artificial intelligence component through the cloud, which the DX80, for example, does not provide. Cisco Webex Desk Pro also provides a superior audio system to the DX80 and advanced … Incentivized Helpful? MA Mostafa Awad Senior Genesys System Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series Actually, I heard and read about Cisco Webex DX80, but from my experience and usage of Cisco Webex Desk Pro, there is no comparison between them from my point of view especially in the features, capabilities, improvements, and enhancements that are being done with Cisco Webex … Incentivized Helpful? TA Tomas Aguerrebehere Supplier Relations Manager LATAM Chose Cisco Desk Series I don't find a competitor for what Cisco Webex Desk Pro can provide to the organization and to the employee. An all in one solution like the one provided is not comparable to any other solution out in the market. We've selected Cisco Webex Desk Pro because we needed a solution … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Desk Series Rich in features, better camera and sound quality, powerful. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Martella Tier 3 Engineer Chose Cisco Desk Series It's incredibly versatile and easy to use and fabulous for home-usage. Incentivized Helpful? AA Aisha Agivetova Graphic designer Chose Cisco Desk Series High quality screen. Build in microphone, camera and whiteboard. Competitive price. Incentivized Helpful?	Poly Studio Series No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Cisco Desk Series	Poly Studio Series
Small Businesses	Lifesize Video Conferencing Score 10.0 out of 10	Lifesize Video Conferencing Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued) Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Desk Series Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued) Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Desk Series Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco Desk Series	Poly Studio Series
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Desk Series	Poly Studio Series
Likelihood to Recommend	The other advantage of the product is that you could use it as a conference system as well as a screen for your PC. So I'm working with three screens and one of these screen is the Desk Pro, so I do not need another screen. So it's saving space in my desk and it's high quality. So this is the plus function. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great devices if you need to hold small conferences. If there is a need to hold a conference for several dozen people, I would recommend using older models. Incentivized VK Vitalii Kopievskii Network Engineer Read full review
Pros	It gives the added function of having multiple lines we can set up called pickup groups or music on hold, so that way it best suits whatever facilities need to have. We can set that up and it works for them on different types of phones. We also have, since Covid, everyone has gone home to work from home and we have our knock who needs to reach out in case of anything. So they needed to have VPN capabilities. So our older models of the 7942s have VPN capabilities for them to be able to also work from home. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Connecting as an external USB device Component quality Convenience and ease of use Incentivized VK Vitalii Kopievskii Network Engineer Read full review
Cons	Training Center, Event Center, and Support Center are separate products from Webex Meetings which should be one Mac Outlook Plugin has some issues while syncing Google calendar synchronization seems to be an issue while using it as clients do have google suite on the business side Incentivized CC chirag chhatbar Senior Advisor Read full review	It is necessary to make a PoE interface on the video codec itself, for convenient connection of PoE tablet control (TC-8) Simplify the first launch of the device in terms of network (external DHCP required) Incentivized VK Vitalii Kopievskii Network Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	The device it self is incredible, but not allowing us to plug a computer devices such as mouse & keyboard direct in USB ports is a penalty. We'd like to bring up the laptop, open it, and start working. Incentivized JG Jaime Gomes Solutions Architecture Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Easy to use, feels like an apple phone Incentivized JG Jaime Gomes Solutions Architecture Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I have not had to use support yet as our use of Webex Desk Pro is so new, but all the questions that I have had have been answered with such promptness and clarity that it is clear Cisco has a passion about this device and about providing high quality in all that they do. Their support is top notch and you will never need to fear when reaching out to them. Incentivized Joshua Baever Sr. Systems Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Implementation was very easy through webex cloud services Incentivized JG Jaime Gomes Solutions Architecture Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The Cisco Desk Pro is better than Poly Studio and Neat Bar with its AI-driven video and audio enhancements, cross-platform compatibility, and integrated 4K display with whiteboarding. It doubles as a collaboration hub with USB-C laptop connectivity and strong enterprise management tools. Overall, it delivers a more complete, professional experience out of the box. Brad Hacker Practice Lead Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	For team work, projects are completed sooner and you can make a profit Saving time and this means the possibility of more profit If the number of projects is large, the investment will return quickly The software license fee is too high Incentivized Bahram ilman zadian Special Events Coordinator Read full review	The devices showed good performance; there are no complaints about reliability The devices allow you to save several thousand dollars a year on renting the necessary equipment Incentivized VK Vitalii Kopievskii Network Engineer Read full review
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