Crestron Mercury vs. Polycom RealPresence Immersive Studio

It is well suited for small to medium sized conference room where video calls with your own device can be utilized. The Mercury essentially allows you to use any communication platform that you currently are using on your own devices. Works well as a stand alone speaker phone as well

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Polycom RealPresence Immersive Video Conferencing is perfect for an organization with different offices all over the world and this comes from first hand experience. It is well suited for an organization that relies on video conferencing to video chat with clients that also use Polycom. It would not be well suited for a company that could make do with a cheaper solution, i.e. Skype or Zoom.

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• The interface is simple to use and intuitive
• The speaker and mic provide ample coverage
• Everything you need for a basic conference room is included

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• Small Conference Rooms
• Ad-Hock Meetings
• Scheduler Room Reservation

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• Camera functionality
• there is no option for PTZ cameras

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• Affordable support package
• Though they are the best it's not easy procuring product
• All in one cloud solutions

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Ease of use and simple features. Intuitive user interface.

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It is fairly easy to set up and use both for the administrator and the end user.

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The Poly can use any video platform, but you have to pick only one. You do not have the ability to BYOD and use a different platform. Both the camera unit and the controller are connected to your network separately and sometime come un-paired and will not "speak" to each other and must be reset

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Polycom RealPresence is really only the preferred teleconferencing solution when using a purpose built room for a scheduled face to face meeting. For ad hoc video meetings, Hangouts, Skype, and Slack all provide fewer friction points for average use cases. In fact, as Google accounts are nearly ubiquitous at this point, Hangouts has almost become the de facto standard for ad hoc video conferencing amongst our users.

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• It has allowed us to continue with hybrid working with remote customers or workers still working from home
• being able to use my own device in a conference room for video calls help bring back together the workforce that has been able to return to the office onsite with those who are not.
• Reduced travel when fully functioning options like are a great solution for meetings.

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• It makes conferencing with our team members in Ireland, India, and Peru much easier and more cost effective.

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