Microsoft announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 that Teams Meetings have been made available on Cisco Meetings Devices.
Teams meetings will be available natively across Cisco meeting devices, allowing customers to make Teams their default meeting platform.
Microsoft Ignite is an annual Microsoft conference geared towards IT professionals. It showcases the company’s latest products and services, as well as provides training, insights and networking opportunities This year, Microsoft Ignite is taking place live from the Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington, USA) on October 12 – 14.
Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM, Security & Collaboration at Cisco, said: “Interoperability has always been at the forefront of our hybrid work strategy, understanding that customers want collaboration to happen on their terms — regardless of device or meeting platform.
“Our partnership with Microsoft brings together two collaboration leaders to completely reimagine the hybrid work experience.”
Teams Meetings on Cisco Meeting Devices
To begin with, Cisco’s six most popular meeting devices, as well as three peripherals, will be certified Teams meetings devices. Microsoft says more certified devices will be coming.
The first devices will be certified by early 2023, which include devices designed for small-to-large meeting room spaces: Cisco Room Kit Pro, Cisco Room Bar, Cisco Board Pro 55-inch and 75-inch.
The first peripheral to be certified is set to be the Cisco Desk Camera 4K; an intelligent USB webcam, which will be available by November.
Although these devices will have Microsoft Teams Rooms as their default setting, they will continue to support WebEx meetings.
The newly certified Cisco devices will be able to be managed from the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal.
Cisco is also providing the optional extra of using its Cisco Cloud Control Hub, from which users will be able to manage their devices.
Jeff Teper, President, Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft, said: “Our vision to make Teams the best collaboration experience for physical spaces is brought to life by our incredible ecosystem of hardware partners.
“By welcoming Cisco as our newest partner building devices Certified for Microsoft Teams, we are excited to bring leading collaboration hardware and software to market together for our joint customers.”
Teams Meeting-Enabled Devices
Current Microsoft Teams Rooms integrations include devices by Microsoft, Poly, Neat, EPOS, Crestron, HP, Jabra, Bose, Logitech, Yealink, Yamaha, Lenovo, and AudioCodes.
Here is a rundown of the devices currently available on the U.S. market.
Microsoft: Surface Hub 2S
Poly: Studio room kits, Studio X series
Neat: Board, Bar + Pad,
EPOS: EXPAND Vision 3T
Crestron: Flex smart soundbar & camera, Flex series, Flex advance series
HP: Presence small space solution, Elite Slice G2
Jabra: PanaCast 50 Room System (coming soon)
Bose: Videobar VB1 with Lenovo ThinkSmart Core + Controller
EPOS: EXPAND Vision 3T,
Logitech: Tap with Rally, Rally Bar Tap room systems
Yealink: MeetingBar A20 with CTP18 touch panel, MVC intelligent speaker, systems, MeetingBar series, MVC series 2021, MeetingBoard (coming soon), MVC 940 with QSC and Sennheiser audio
Yamaha: ADECIA wired tabletop solution with AVer Camera and Lenovo Core + Controller, ADECIA Solution with AVer Camera & Lenovo Core + Controller
Lenovo: ThinkSmart Core full room kit, ThinkSmart Hub Gen 2 rooms systems
AudioCodes: RXV100 with RXVCam50L (coming soon)
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