Key takeaways:
- Most meeting rooms are designed for one platform and struggle to join another.
- This lack of connection results in frustration, wasted time, reduced productivity, and increased IT support demands
- Universal interoperability ensures uniform meeting experiences by reliably bridging meeting devicxes and platforms
There’s nothing seamless about a video meeting that won’t start.
We’ve all been there. You get a calendar invite for a meeting on one platform, maybe it’s Zoom, but your room is set up for another, like Teams. Someone plugs in a laptop, fumbles with an HDMI cable, and ten minutes later, you’re finally in the meeting, missing the first part of the discussion and frustrating everyone in the room.
Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare occurrence. It’s a daily reality for many. Video conferencing has become central to modern work, but the fragmentation between meeting platforms and personal or room devices has created a barrier to productivity. We call this an interoperability failure.
Why your meeting rooms don’t play nice
Today’s video collaboration landscape is dominated by a few major platforms: Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and Cisco Webex. Each works well in its own ecosystem but therein lies the issue. Most meeting rooms are designed for one platform and struggle to join another.
That means if receive a Zoom invite and want to join from your Teams Room or you want to take your Teams call from your Google Meet room, you're often left with a clunky experience...or no connection at all. IT teams can often, but not always, patch things together, but the result is rarely smooth or scalable. What should be a routine interaction becomes a source of delay, confusion, and cost.
And the impact goes deeper than the occasional meeting hiccup. For the professionals in the office, it erodes trust in the tools they’re given. For IT, it means supporting multiple platforms, devices, and workflows, all with different update cycles and support models. It’s an inefficient model that drains resources and hinders collaboration.
Bridging the interoperability gap with standards and flexibility
This is where the term interoperability becomes more than a buzzword. It’s a foundation for functional, flexible collaboration. And it’s something Pexip has spent years helping customers solve.
With bridging solutions like Pexip Connect, organizations can allow their existing video systems, whether designed for a specific platform or not, to join meetings across platforms. That means you can securely join a Google Meet or Zoom call from your Teams Room, or vice versa, without extra hardware or a poor experience.
Pexip is built on open standards with the reliability, security, and control required by public sector and enterprise customers alike.
The result?
Less frustration. More flexibility. And meeting rooms that actually work, no matter what type of meeting you need to join.
The future of enterprise video collaboration
As hybrid work continues to evolve, one thing is clear: organizations need video meeting solutions that don’t lock them in. They need universal, any-room-to-any-meeting interoperability solutions that provide the reliable meeting experience that end-users expect. The future of collaboration depends on choice, not just of platform, but of how and where people can connect.
Meeting rooms shouldn’t be barriers. They should be bridges.
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