Polycom RealPresence Group Series

Polycom RealPresence Group Series

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Polycom RealPresence Group Series	Score6 out of 10	N/A	The Polycom RealPresence Group Series is a video conferencing codec that connects to a standards-based video conferencing infrastructure to allow users to make video conference calls. There are three products in the series – RealPresence Group 300, RealPresence Group 500, and RealPresence Group 700. It is certified to use with Office 365 and Skype for Business.	N/A

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	Polycom RealPresence Group Series
Considered Both Products	Poly Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Polycom Group Series was very good for what it used to do for its time, however newer technology that provides a more simpler method to configure, join and host video conference meetings has come in the form of Zoom and [Microsoft] Teams which is hard to go back from and … Incentivized Helpful? Curt Sminkey Network Engineer in Information Technology at Southco (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series When I started at one of my jobs, they already have Lifesize VC equipment. It was nice, they worked and they were less expensive. But once we started transitioning things to Polycom it was a night/day difference. Some of our large conference rooms had audio issues that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Poly has outlasted other competitor's products. I have reviewed Lifesize as one alternative. Ironically, I was impressed with the overall quality over Poly, however, the product did not last as well as Poly units. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series The Polycom RealPresence Group Series was top of the line. It had a lot more features as well as the ability to integrate with Microsoft Teams. With Highfive, you had to pay to keep the device running and it was more like renting it. Although we pay maintenance with Polycom we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Polycom is the most flexible video conferencing hardware solution on the market. They provide a fantastic infrastructure but also have the option to directly register or convert to a cloud service endpoint! Incentivized Helpful? Brian Coyne Unified Collaboration Engineer in Information Technology at Signet (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series We have used Microsoft Teams Rooms in some of our smaller huddle rooms that still require video, and this was due to the lower cost of the Microsoft Teams Room systems over the Polycom Presence Group series. The Microsoft Teams Rooms are perfect for small, less-used rooms, as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Conference room systems do not seem to be commonly integrated with Skype for Business, so limited usability. Lifesize looked attractive, but the lower cost and local support of Polycom put it ahead. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series I have reviewed Skype and Skype for Business previously, and while I have enjoyed the use of those systems, the video and audio quality of Polycom RealPresence Group Series is far superior. Polycom Real presence Group Series has more functions and capabilities, and experiences … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Went for Polycom due to the INTERNAL quality of HD room to room quality. If we were only looking for external audio or web meetings an external partner and platform seems to be a better choice. But a web provider cannot match the internal COS high-speed WAN quality (I believe). Incentivized Helpful? Damon Black Area IT Manager Network/Telecommunications in Information Technology at Sappi North America (Paper & Forest Products, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series We compared Polycom against Cisco and the potential need for Skype for Business was a deciding factor. Incentivized Helpful? David George Senior Vice President - Enterprise Services Services Excellence & Performance at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Insurance, 10,001+ employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series I have not used other formal VC software rather used WebEx Video and FaceTime which are more intuitive to use. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Bruneau North America Audio Video Support Specialist in Corporate at Analog Devices (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series As a previous AV installer, the Polycom line of product always superseded other hard codecs due to the reliability. Other expensive codec's don't supply the same features for the price of Polycom. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series The quality and flexibility of the GS still wins...but not by a big enough margin to justify it as often as we used to. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series The video & audio quality is superior. Incentivized Helpful? Danny Dunn Technology Engineering Lead - Conferencing and Collaboration Services in Information Technology at Ascension Information Services (AIS) (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series With our investment in the RealPresence infrastructure it just makes sense to use a RealPresence endpoint. The other endpoints integrate with additional work, but the group series just work. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Other departments have been testing and using them. I am unaware of there opinions at this point. Incentivized Helpful? Chad Rolfes Regional Director of Quality and Food Safety in Quality Assurance at Mars Petcare (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Polycom works better for groups 2-5, but Skype is much easier/simple for 1 to 1 connections or multiple connections as long as there is only 1 person from each site Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series Polycom is a great company that is always on the edge of new and improving technology. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series We are still evaluating more about the differences between the two devices and how they handle audio and video within a call. Along with bandwidth, flexiblilty in meetings, and security features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Polycom RealPresence Group Series The GroupSeries has performed much better than all the alternative solutions we have tried. We have been a Lifesize shop for a long time, but their direction was cloud only and more proprietary so we wanted a more open solution. We also use Skype For Business and there is … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Polycom RealPresence Group Series
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (4 ratings)