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    Cisco Room Series

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Room Series is a video conferencing solution that wakes up when users walk into a meeting room where it is installed and provides theater-quality voice and video, as well as content sharing from personal devices. For small to medium rooms with 6-8 people, there's Cisco Room 55, and for larger rooms of 7-14 people there's Cisco Room Kit (camera and codec in one device) and Cisco Kit Plus (separate codec plus and quad camera). Any of these systems can be run in the cloud or on-premises.N/A

    Crestron XiO

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACrestron, headquartered in New Jersey, offers Crestron XiO, an Internet of Things (IoT) device management platform which provides automated hardware patching and firmware updates, device connectivity and condition monitoring, and analytics platform for tracking device usage.

    $1

    Per Room Per Month

    Pricing
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    API Access
    $1.00
    Per Room Per Month
    Endpoint Management
    $3.00
    Per Room Per Month
    Support
    $4.00
    Per Room Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Crestron Electronics
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    80 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    72 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    66 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Cisco Room Series and Crestron XiO
    Feature
    Cisco Room Series
    -
    Ratings
    Crestron XiO
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Device Security00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (82 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.5
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (71 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (71 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Room SeriesCrestron XiO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    We had a conference room with a Radvision board that needed to be replaced. Our HQ is not fully Cisco but rather a mish mash of different products such as Rally bars, Poly, Radviison and Cisco. Putting Cisco into the conference room allowed us to have a single pane of glass for our needs.
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    Crestron Electronics
    XiO is definitely well suited for applications like ours where we have a large number of devices to manage. I like being able to see all my devices and locations in one place. It is very helpful to see if any devices are offline each morning and be able to troubleshoot before any customers realize there is a problem
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Captures everyone in the room with its wide angle camera automatically.
    • Counts the number of people in the video meeting.
    • Puts the camera focus on the person who is speaking.
    • Enhances the live meeting video experience with its AI features.
    • Removes the overheads of manually setting up cameras and adjusting them.
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    Crestron Electronics
    • Scheduled re-boots and updates
    • I like the way the hierarchy can be set up
    • individually customizable group settings within the hierarchy
    • I like the capability of setting up background images for brand promotion or employee information
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Perhaps any downside I might see is not necessarily with this product, it's more interoperability with other products. And I think these are all roadmap items that are being addressed. For instance, when you're in a Cisco meeting, it's not as feature rich as it might be as if you joined from a computer. However, as I said, these seem to be roadmap items which are coming along soon. Things like integration with the text or chat rather in a meeting, and also whiteboard integration.
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    Crestron Electronics
    • I would like the option to choose IP addresses as one of the viewable columns when looking at/sorting through all your available devices.
    • It would be nice to be able to link the IP address listed directly to their devices.
    • Sometime trying to reboot a device in XiO does not work for me and I need to go directly to the device's admin page.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    By the time we are up for an upgrade, this particular series of products might not even been in the market. The typical product cycle for such products in the market are about 5 years. More importantly, the codec supported by such devices may also change by the time we are up for an upgrade. Even so, getting this system to a level of functionality we require was a frustrating ordeal that I do not look forward to during the next cycle.
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    Crestron Electronics
    XiO is a necessity when managing the large number of device our company has
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    Usability
    Cisco
    A lot of the features are really easy. You can just click connect and you're in. But using all of these other integrations and all these other features that are there, it's kind of the blind leading the blind as to how we use it. So it's probably the downside of it.
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    Crestron Electronics
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Once the order was place we received very quickly
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    Crestron Electronics
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cisco
    Great product with a great user experience
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    Crestron Electronics
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco has always stood out for the excellent support and documentation on its products, this is one of the reasons why they are so well positioned. The means by which you can create a case and the response times are very good. I especially like the support through the Webex teams.
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    Crestron Electronics
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Very easy to implement. Integration into our Unified Communications platform was simple and quick
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    Crestron Electronics
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    As a partner, I always used mainly Cisco products and offered them to my customers. I have personal experience with Avaya, Team and polycom but non of them provided me with the Premium feelings which Cisco does. Even the product quality and look of the product by itself gives you the premium experience. But I want to mention that Polycom has some features and easy setup which Cisco lacks sometimes. It is mainly 3rd party integration.
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    Crestron Electronics
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Cisco
    The product and backend systems are designed to scale from small to very large organization seamlessly and easily
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    Crestron Electronics
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The Cisco MTRoA solution has reduced the time it takes for our users to join their meeting and spend more time concentrating on business rather than the technology.
    • It simply works.
    • Ease of support.
    • We also appreciate the great support we get from intelligent folks in Cisco TAC organization.
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    Crestron Electronics
    • being able to manage all my devices remotely saves us time/money
    • XiO reduces the need to have someone on-site/in person to manage my devices
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