January 2022
White Paper
Windows or Android in the Meeting Room
Choosing the right operating system for your organization's group video systems.
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Traditional Video Conferencing
Video conferencing has evolved from an expensive and complex technological curiosity into a costeffective, highly reliable, core business tool used by hundreds of millions of people every day.
Traditionally, most meeting room (a.k.a. group) video conferencing systems spoke the same language
a language called communication standards. By adhering to standards such as SIP and H.323, video conferencing systems could communicate with each other and connect to back-end video conferencing platforms (meaning calling services, video bridges, gateways, registration systems, and more).
Customers purchasing these video systems didn't worry much about interoperability or compatibility with video conferencing platforms because almost all video systems adhered to the same standards.
Also, customers didn't think about the operating system or software running on these video conferencing systems for one reason they had no choice in the matter. When they purchased a video system, it came with that vendor's hardware, that vendor's chosen operating system, and that vendor's collaboration software.
Today, things are very different.
It's All About the Platform
Countless organizations have made feature-rich communication tools including video conferencing available to their workers on their desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.
For various reasons (scalability, ease of use, feature-set, and more), most companies expanded their communication and video conferencing deployments to their workers using cloud platforms.
Over time, users became comfortable with the communication software provided by their platform providers, and now they expect the same experience (look, feel, workflow, etc.) in their meeting rooms.
In response, some cloud service providers created meeting room friendly versions of their communication software. To make their software easy to deploy, the providers designed their meeting room software to be compatible with third-party hardware running Windows and Android.
Organizations worldwide are video-enabling their meeting rooms using Windows and Android software from communication platform providers like those listed in the table below.
Meeting Room Software
BlueJeans Rooms
Dialpad Meetings
GoToRoom
Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)
Pexip Room
RingCentral Rooms
StarLeaf Room
Tencent Meeting Rooms
Zoom Rooms (ZR)
Windows
