Our company is standardizing our conference-rooms across the enterprise. We have recently switched from Bluejeans to Zoom and I personally couldn’t be any happier because Zoom works very nicely and the quality of the calls has greatly improved over Bluejeans. On to my questions\\recommendation:<\/p>\n
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There is obviously not just one solution for setting up a Zoom-Room, but I am looking to see what others are using, recommending, advising, and why that particular system over another one. We want to keep things as simple as possible and obviously keeps costs low. All the conference rooms have either one or two large TVs. Some have Mac-Minis with decent Logitech cameras and iPads as a temporary Zoom-Room setups. Some have Tandberg or other conference room systems that are being also temporarily re-purposed until we have a final solution for the whole enterprise. I am not the primary tech working on this, but I have some say in the final decision and would like to hear what others have to say. I am not looking for anything too complicated and we don’t need too much functionality. Basic conference room functions with scheduling, internal\\external calls, HD video, good quality cam, etc. We have been looking at some Crestron soundbars (UC-B160-Z\\UC-M150-Z) and a few other systems that are Zoom-Room approved. The tech who has primarily responsible for researching this mentioned that while the Crestron device are great, they do require some considerable investment in terms of support, programming, resolving issues. If anyone has experience with these, I would love to hear what you have to say about these particular models!<\/p>\n
I am open to all ideas, so you are using something else altogether, be a proprietary Zoom-Room approved system or you just bought individual components and that works well for you, that’s totally fine with me.<\/p>\n
Our company is standardizing our conference-rooms across the enterprise. We have recently switched from Bluejeans to Zoom and I personally couldn’t be any happier because Zoom works very nicely and the quality of the calls has greatly improved over Bluejeans. On to my questions\\recommendation:<\/p>\n
There is obviously not just one solution for setting up a Zoom-Room, but I am looking to see what others are using, recommending, advising, and why that particular system over another one. We want to keep things as simple as possible and obviously keeps costs low. All the conference rooms have either one or two large TVs. Some have Mac-Minis with decent Logitech cameras and iPads as a temporary Zoom-Room setups. Some have Tandberg or other conference room systems that are being also temporarily re-purposed until we have a final solution for the whole enterprise. I am not the primary tech working on this, but I have some say in the final decision and would like to hear what others have to say. I am not looking for anything too complicated and we don’t need too much functionality. Basic conference room functions with scheduling, internal\\external calls, HD video, good quality cam, etc. We have been looking at some Crestron soundbars (UC-B160-Z\\UC-M150-Z) and a few other systems that are Zoom-Room approved. The tech who has primarily responsible for researching this mentioned that while the Crestron device are great, they do require some considerable investment in terms of support, programming, resolving issues. If anyone has experience with these, I would love to hear what you have to say about these particular models!<\/p>\n
I am open to all ideas, so you are using something else altogether, be a proprietary Zoom-Room approved system or you just bought individual components and that works well for you, that’s totally fine with me.<\/p>\n
I think a lot depends on the size and configuration of your conference rooms and your specific meeting needs.<\/p>\n
Most of our rooms are sized for 6-10 people, and our standard Zoom Room configuration for those is a TV, Logitech camera, Mac Mini, Polycom Trio 8800, and an iPad mounted at the door for signage. We used to use the Revolabs FLX UC 500 as our standard speaker phone, but prefer the additional functionality available with the Polycom Trio.<\/p>\n
For the larger rooms we have the same setup but add a couple of extension mics to the Polycom.<\/p>\n
For the smaller rooms we do without the Polycom and have the Logitech cameras with built in mics and speakers or, in some cases, just a Polycom desk phone as the speaker/mic.<\/p>\n
We also have a couple of meeting rooms w/o any equipment inside the rooms, just the iPad mounted at the door as a scheduler.<\/p>\n
The users have been very happy with our setup and we in IT have found it pretty easy to support and maintain.<\/p>\n
I’ve never used a Creston soundbar so can’t comment how what their quality/maintenance is like. They could very well be fantastic, but they seem quite expensive to me compared to other solutions, like the Logitechs and Polycoms we use, that work fine.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2019-12-12T17:24:01.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/zoom-room-recommendations/742957/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"kevin28","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/kevin28"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Thank you sir. Very informative.<\/p>\n
So is the Polycom has Zoom software on it? Trying to understand how it fits in with Zoom Room stuff. You’re still using the iPad\\MacMini to manage the Zoom Room stuff though?<\/p>\n
Since we just installed Zoom Room stuff, I am using an old Mac-Mini with an iPad. An older camera with a mic which is all temporary.<\/p>\n
