Cisco_Webex_Meetings vs. MSFT Microsoft_Teams_Meetings

In today's world of digital transformation where 90% of the industry giants are moving away from legacy infrastructure and traditional old way of working towards more robust and digital cloud networks, and during this transition what they need the most is the digital workspace collaboration tools for teams, employees, clients for enabling and powering them with the tools they can used for unified communication whether they are in office or collaborating remotely. Luckily consumers has variety of futuristic collaborative unified communication tools available at their disposals. The standout products are from two tech giants in the industry today i.e Cisco and Microsoft ..Cisco Webex Meetings and Microsoft Teams (known as MSFT meetings or MS Teams), they both provide very nice and awesome ways to communicate and collaborate in VoIP industry today. Because of this, it become very hard for consumer to decide which option to choose - whether to go for Webex or try MS Teams and why?, So i tried helping out you guys by doing neck to neck comparison between Webex Meetings and Microsoft Teams features and compatibility they offer (as of today). It is a great comparison between MSFT meetings and Webex. Now Let us deep-dive into the discussion and overall comparison of both. Below i will show you the matrix with the hyperlinks as well (if you want more details regarding the same).

Capabilities Matrix of Cisco Webex Meetings vs. Microsoft Teams Meetings (MSFT meetings):

 

	Cisco Webex Meetings                                              Microsoft Teams (MSFT meetings)
Deployment	Cloud and Hybrid Deployments	Cloud and Hybrid Deployments (with limitations)
Meeting Capacity	Up to 1000 Participants	Up to 300 Participants Microsoft announced to let as many as 1000 participants in a meeting soon
Webcast Capacity	100,000+	Up to 100,000 Attendees with Live Event in Microsoft Stream
Video Layout	Up to 25 video attendees are shown (5X5 Grid View)	Up to 9 video attendees are shown (3X3 Grid View)                Microsoft announced Large Gallery view (up to 49 participants) is coming by Aug 2020.
Desktop/ Application Sharing	Yes	Yes

 

File Sharing	Yes	Yes, with limitations. Only ppt file can be shared
Whiteboarding	Yes	Yes
The ability to draw/ annotate on top of the content being shared	Yes	No
Record Meetings	Yes	Ye s
Support local and cloud recording	Yes	No, Only cloud recording is supported
Personal Room	Yes	No
Share web-based multimedia content (Share web pages or video content that might be difficult to view with standard screen sharing or application sharing due to bandwidth or hardware limitations)	Yes	Yes VBSS (high speed content sharing)
Meeting controls for hosts (Mute or unmute participants/ Add or remove participants)	Yes	Yes

 

Breakout Sessions	No (In the roadmap)	No (In the roadmap)
Chat	Yes	Yes
Notes	Yes	Yes
Raise hand	Yes	Yes
Polling	Yes	Yes
Meeting Lock/ Unlock	Yes	No
Recording transcriptions	Yes	Yes
Ability to assign alternate hosts	Yes	No
Allow others to schedule meetings on behalf of the host	Yes, it support the feature	No
Customizable Meeting site URL (Creating customizable URL)	Yes, it support the feature	No

 

End-to-End Encryption	Yes, it support the feature	No As per recent NSA guide, E2EE is not available in teams: Link to NSA Guide
Standard Based Video Interoperability	Yes Native support for SIP, H323 and IP Dialing	No It’s only possible using 3rd party CVI Gateway
OBTP with Cisco video devices	Yes, it support the feature	No Once released the Cisco CVI cloud gateway solution will support OBTP for Cisco devices
One Touch Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms	No When Microsoft will release WebRTC access from the Microsoft Teams Rooms to Webex Meeting then One Touch Join will be supported as well	Yes, it support the feature
SIP Trunk for VOIP audio dial-in to the meetings	Yes (Webex Edge audio)	No
Wireless Proximity with Cisco Endpoints	Yes, it support the feature	No
Proximity with Microsoft Room System	No	Yes, it support the feature
External Streaming	Yes (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.)	No
Export the list of users who attended a meeting	Yes (The list can be exported only post meeting)	Yes (The list can be exported only during the meeting)   Work in progress to enable download after a meeting has concluded. Release date was not announced.
Virtual Background	Yes Supported on MAC and iOS only. Windows support is pinned in roadmap.	Yes, it support the feature
Artificial Intelligence	Yes (WebEx Assistant)	Yes (Cortana)
Remote Desktop Control	Yes, it support the feature	Yes, it support the feature

 

This is the complete list of MSFT Meetings and Cisco Webex meetings comparison that provide in-depth understanding and knowledge to easily compare the two products that are rising in popularity day by day and fighting hard on features and inter-operatability . I would say this really helped the consumer base as they have very nice options to choose from for their digital workspace and that can help them in their overall organisation digital network transformations.

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