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Cisco Meeting Server (discontinued)

Score8.2 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Meeting Server (discontinued)?

Cisco Meeting Server was a conferencing solution for allowing the user to setup a conference any time using a wide range of Cisco and Jabber devices, and third-party solutions (e.g. Skype for Business). The product has reached its end-of-life, and is discontinued.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Cisco Meeting Server (discontinued) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 27 ratings of Cisco Meeting Server (discontinued)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Meeting initiation

    Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.

    Category average: 8.4

  • User authentication

    Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.

    Category average: 8.3

  • High quality audio

    High quality audio connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Record meetings / events

    Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Whiteboards

    Presenters or attendees can share notes or annotations they’ve made on a whiteboard/meeting space within the web conferencing UI.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Integrates with social media

    Integrates with social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn to promote meetings and webinars.

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Meeting Server (discontinued).
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Cisco Meeting Server - Seamless and Reliable Tool

Incentivized
Akshay K T
Associate Engineer Software in Engineering at SLK Software Pvt. Ltd (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Meeting Server is mainly used to interact with clients and product team. And is also used to track and get on with business opportunities. When on a call with client, it is important to listen and convey each others needs in a business point of view, that too without any delay or hindrance. Cisco Meeting Server addresses this issue seamlessly and provided us with the desired results. There was a time where we had to connect with internal team who were working remotely for a critical update on the product and it was difficult to gather everyone and convey the insights at a single point and other conferencing tools we had used earlier had failed us, but Cisco Meeting Server did great job in handling all the personnel in the meeting without any lags or disconnectivity.

Pros

  • Simple, yet intuitive user experience and user friendly.
  • Easier collaboration with other tools to enhance the experience.
  • Boosts overall productivity and cost effective

Cons

  • Add some of the features which are currently only accessible by API, this will reduce intervention of support team and downtime.
  • Bring some features to foreground. Some users find it difficult to navigate to certain buttons which are embedded in menus.
  • Allow easy access to some of the controls.

Return on Investment

  • Boosts productivity within the organisation with continuous collaboration within teams.
  • Saves on overall investment.
  • Gives a great outlook to potential customers.

Other Software Used

Atlan, Intelligence Node, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Seamless Meeting experience

Incentivized
Jian GroenewaldView profile
Service support analyst at NSC Global (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this internally for team/departmental huddles on a weekly basis to tackle issues that might arise or hamper project progress. It is very convenient as it integrates well with Cisco Webex and 3rd party devices easily.

Pros

  • Integrates well with other devices
  • More than 1 person can be on video call with minimal lag
  • Quiet cost effective for a company with many employees

Cons

  • Sound quality can improve, sometimes, you see people talking, and the words follow 2secs after
  • Would be fun if they could have fun emoticons that are interactive
  • Perhaps they can add a notepad section for meetings where you could save documents or have an audio transcribe or summarize a meeting

Return on Investment

  • Definitely cost effective if you use most of the services and are a partner
  • They are very supportive with any issues the business faces and offers great solutions
  • I would like to see a more user-friendly website

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams, Skype and Zoom

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype

Cisco Meeting Solution

Incentivized
Katarzyna Karwat
in Marketing at Private Webinar Hosting (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need tool to easily connect within our small organization and with external clients whom we are training and consulting in the field of digital marketing and transformation. Cisco's web-based solution makes it really easy for us to connect from different devices with various clients as it works with third-party devices. The tool was easy to implement and accepted by the team. UX is super intuitive. The license has a good price compared to competitors.

Pros

  • Video quality.
  • Chat function.
  • Working with external customers.

Cons

  • More flexible license selection.
  • Additional applications.

Return on Investment

  • Cost efficient.
  • Stable for daily business.

Alternatives Considered

Zoom and GoTo Meeting

Other Software Used

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Studio, FileZilla, Jira Software

An instrument not only for Video Call Meeting but also to remotely work

Incentivized
Giuseppe CuselloView profile
GRC Director in Professional Services at Cyber Partners S.p.A. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for supporting our customers and in remote project activity. In addition we use it for video call meetings.

Pros

  • esily to use
  • good quality of images
  • features available

Cons

  • there's nothing to hint

Return on Investment

  • more affidable than other systems

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams and TeamViewer

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams, TeamViewer

Usability

Best On-premise based Meeting solution in the market

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

  • Video meetings
  • Webrtc
  • audio meetings
  • cisco call manager integrations

Cons

  • 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)

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