LOGITECH RALLY BAR FOR MICROSOFT TEAMS
ROOMS ON WINDOWS RUNS THE ANALYST'S
GAUNTLET
Frost & Sullivan's Analyst Gauntlet is a structured program wherein participating vendors and service providers give industry analysts deep dives and demonstrations of their collaboration solution. The analyst then uses the collaboration solution over a period of time and provides candid feedback based on his/her user experience with the specified tool.
The Frost & Sullivan Connected Work research team has evaluated the new Logitech Rally Bar video conferencing device. Rally Bar, which began shipping in February 2021, is an all-in-one video bar incorporating cameras, microphones, speakers and processing software. Rally Bar fills the mid-range of the new Logitech Rally intelligent endpoint family, with
Rally Bar Mini addressing small rooms and Rally Plus for large rooms.
Logitech positions Rally Bar as a state-of-the-art solution that tightly integrates with popular video conferencing services in three deployment modes:
" Appliance mode, a standalone Android-based solution
" USB mode, connecting with in-room Windows PCs and Macs
" Bring your own device (BYOD) mode
In this review, we detail our experiences configuring, installing, managing and using Rally Bar in USB mode with a dedicated in-room PC for
Microsoft Teams. We are remote users without technical training and without local IT support. Our setup was comprised of Rally Bar, a Logitech
Tap touch-based meeting room controller, an Intel NUC running Microsoft
Teams Room software on top of Windows 10, and a 42 Samsung 4K
television as the room display. We placed the Rally Bar, display and NUC
on a standard-height shelf approximately 7' from the meeting table. The
Tap controller was placed on the meeting table. We required no extension microphones or additional speakers in our midsize meeting space. Our shipment containing Tap, Rally Bar and NUC was well-packaged with all components and cables boxed firmly with packing material for protection
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LOGITECH RALLY BAR FOR MICROSOFT TEAMS
ROOMS ON WINDOWS RUNS THE ANALYST'S
GAUNTLET CONTD.
Highlighted components of our evaluation included:
Rally Bar unit dimensions are 6.46 H x 2.99
W x 5.14 D; lens depth is 1.13
" Weight is 15.6 lbs.
Rally Bar
" Integrated AI viewfinder and PTZ camera
" Embedded audio includes 2 speakers and 6
beamforming microphones with 15' pickup range
Remote control
