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How good is the remote audio and video quality? Is it on skype level?

Skype sucks in audio and video quality and those are really important to my company.

We have a solution from Cisco which had excellent video and audio quality sadly it's just a Tv that can call another Cisco TV and share the screen including a very good webcam. No whiteboard features or something like that, no touchscreen. Except the small tablet to control the thing

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This uses Skype for Business, formerly Lync, which is different tech than Skype-the-consumer-app. Skype for Business connects though your own network infrastructure, and uses your own servers (or Office 365 hosted ones). Quality is about as good as it gets - depending on the latency and bandwidth of your network of course.

Cisco has PC based video conference and/or can make the Lync or Skype for business to work with it. So you can call other folks on PC and have the room join as well.

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