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Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by parasubvert »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #57
ryanSrich wrote: post #36

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You're right in that 99% of them are complete garbage. However I was pleasantly surprised when my company switched to Zoom[1]. A company I had never heard of before. In terms of call quality I've never experienced anything better. Beyond that their mobile experience is almost better in terms of raw features than their desktop app (which is still very good in its own right). 1.) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…

I refuse to use anything that requires proprietary plugin/app. AFAIK so far the only thing that works natively in the broswer is Hangouts.

The power drain from Hangouts/Chrome is astounding. I admit it's convienent but native does have its benefits it you need a lot of video conferencing (like all day pairing)

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by parasubvert »

therealmarv wrote: post #39

I really do not like conference systems which do not work on Linux. Not everybody is using a Mac or Windows. Microsoft is also ignoring Skype and Skype for Business on Linux. This is all crap.

We are mostly Mac and Linux at my company.. give Zoom a shot, it's worked out well for video, audio, and sharing... (Europeans in this post have had latency issues though)

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by monk_e_boy »

jason_pomerleau wrote: post #209
ryandrake wrote: post #50

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Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…

Most of my customers are located in a different city than the one I live and work in. You'd think videoconferencing would be perfect for someone like me. But no, once or twice a month I rent a car and drive ~225km to meet with them personally. I supplement these in-person meetings with phone calls. I'm not sure I've ever had a videoconference call go perfectly smoothly, and I found that these kinds of calls added all…

Do you think a video wall would help? I often wonder if it is the size of the screen that makes people feel 'distant' when using video conferencing.

Super high def full wall screen, so they can see every hair on your head with minimal lag -- I think this would work, the only thing they'd miss was a handshake.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by dmurdoch »

parasubvert wrote: post #213
therealmarv wrote: post #39

I really do not like conference systems which do not work on Linux. Not everybody is using a Mac or Windows. Microsoft is also ignoring Skype and Skype for Business on Linux. This is all crap.

We are mostly Mac and Linux at my company.. give Zoom a shot, it's worked out well for video, audio, and sharing... (Europeans in this post have had latency issues though)

I can vouch for this, used it daily for most of last year.. And we didn't have much of any latency issues with our team in Canada and 2 others in Turkey.

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Post by EduardoBautista »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #201
pmontra wrote: post #80

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Don't know about Skype for business but they are rewriting the normal Skype client for Linux. https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/bd-p/Linux I didn't try it out. The old client still works. The only missing feature is screen sharing in multiple parties video calls. I'm using TeamViewer for that. Desktop sharing is much smoother with TeamViewer anyway. The real plus of Skype over Hangout or Webex is the chat: the his…

Skype for Business only shares a logo and the name, everything else is Lync-as-usual: Windows-only, and sometimes not even Windows.

macOS also has Skype for Business

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Post by JacobDotVI »

newscracker wrote: post #160
Jaruzel wrote: post #93

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What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business. Despite it being Microsoft, I've found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I've used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space. Combine Lync/SfB with one of those nice mul…

Anecdotal, but our company uses SfB and it has been anything but good. We always have problems in voice calls (which forms the majority of use) - doesn't matter if we're all sitting on the same LAN with wired connections or on very good Internet connections away from the office. The number of disconnects, breaking audio, unable to hear someone, and of course, SfB deciding to crash sometimes after some updates - it's…

Having been on the other side of a Skype for Business installation I can tell you that it is extremely variable and can scale anywhere from a self-contained single server set-up[1] to a multi-region, multi-fail-over-cluster, highly available, extremely complicated set-up[2]. We had a few issues post initial install but spent the time to track them down to the point where our system was reliable and more usable than web ex and it's ilk. This is the crux of Lync, so much depends on your required set up and how well that was done.

[1] - http://bressner.com/ucbox-express/ [2] - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=550989

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by jquast »

m-app wrote: post #89
hrayr wrote: post #20

Are they competing with WebEx, Skype, or Slack? Looks like a compelling B2B offering from Amazon. I bet they'll have an accompanying hardware to go with this in the coming months.

Looks to me a bit more akin to Cisco's Spark, although without the video endpoints, digital whiteboard and end-to-end security. https://www.ciscospark.com/products/overview.html D: I work at Cisco and use Spark daily.

so cisco employees don't use webex? no wonder it sucks ...

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Post by cpr »

parasubvert wrote: post #207
ryanSrich wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right in that 99% of them are complete garbage. However I was pleasantly surprised when my company switched to Zoom[1]. A company I had never heard of before. In terms of call quality I've never experienced anything better. Beyond that their mobile experience is almost better in terms of raw features than their desktop app (which is still very good in its own right). 1.) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…

We (2300 employees or so) use a mix of - Zoom (larger meetings where we need it to be rock solid), - Hangouts (for smaller / quick meetings since we are in Gsuite), and - WebEx (for external tech support / keyboard sharing) - Slack / Screenhero (internal chat and keyboard sharing) Zoom has been a revelation especially with large videoconferences. Rock solid global performance.

When is Slack going to release Screenhero as part of their standard product? They swallowed the latter well over a year ago, and nothing's come of it.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by drited »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #57
ryanSrich wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right in that 99% of them are complete garbage. However I was pleasantly surprised when my company switched to Zoom[1]. A company I had never heard of before. In terms of call quality I've never experienced anything better. Beyond that their mobile experience is almost better in terms of raw features than their desktop app (which is still very good in its own right). 1.) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…

I refuse to use anything that requires proprietary plugin/app. AFAIK so far the only thing that works natively in the broswer is Hangouts.

Adobe connect allows participants on desktop to enter in the browser without software downloads aswell (http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/meetings.html).It's expensive though. Anyone know any more inexpensive options that work natively in the browser? Would be nice to get a little list going.
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