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We have a Polycom conferencing camera (CX5000), which seems to be something originally designed by Microsoft and called Roundtable. It works well, including for international calls — we have regular calls using Skype without issue to Canada and Taiwan from Europe, and irregular calls elsewhere.

It does have an essentially perfect 1Gb/s Internet connection.

This is the current version: http://www.polycom.com/products-services/products-for-micros...

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sigh Polycom - such good hardware with such awful software.

We have Polycom VVX VOIP phones, and the call quality blows the socks off any of the competition. However, we also have to maintain a TFTP provisioning server that feels like it was last updated in the 80s. I have a feeling that Polycom have only just discovered the internet. Hopefully they can overcome this last hurdle.

We have a couple of Polycom CX5000s too - the second one we had to source from eBay! We use Skype for Business for 100% of our voice and video communication, and have virtually no trouble with it.

Any problems in my experience stem from remote users' ISP bandwidth issues, or their inability to read instructions. No complaints about SfB.

I wonder if the author is using Skype for Business or the consumer Skype.

My experience is about the same.

Video conferencing/screen share is a huge part of how my company works - and SfB is extremely reliable for us. It 'just works', if it didn't we would switch to something else immediately.

We're using Skype for Business and it's a daily source of issues. Call quality is often terrible and - unrelated to the audio/video aubject - screen sharing is so laggy that it is literally unusable most of the time ("Please click over there. wait for visual update "Now do..").

Another fun issue is that you cannot directly paste stuff without starting a conversation. It will block your message as "too long" most if the time, unless you write something meaningless and short first. "Hey. Skype sucks. Incoming error I need your help with:".

it's the other way around, Polycom designed Roundtable for Microsoft.

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