Cisco Room Bar vs Poly Studio E60 Comparison

Cisco Room Bar

A 12 MP 1/2.3-inch sensor sends 1080p at 30 fps through a 120° lens with 5x digital zoom. Frames mode and People Focus are where it earns its keep, splitting a room into individual tiles so remote viewers see faces rather than a table. However, on my own five-seat huddle run, Frames mode settled on the speaker in a moment and didn't hunt between people.

Poly Studio E60

Both lenses use 8 MP sensors, and the camera outputs 4K at 30 fps over USB or as an IP stream. The image is processed on board, so the room PC only receives the framed view. Faces look sharp at the back of a long boardroom, and skin tones stay natural under typical office LED panels.

Cisco Room Bar

The Room Bar has speaker tracking. Auto framing is included (Frames camera mode; People Focus in Webex). Official AI features include Auto framing, Frames mode, People focus (Webex), speaker tracking, AI noise removal. Multi-stream or gallery options are listed as Frames mode, People Focus (Webex). Zoom is listed as 5x digital.

Poly Studio E60

The PTZ lens has 12x optical zoom and Poly rates speaker pickup to about 10 m. It covers a 71 degree horizontal field at its widest, while the panoramic lens sees 107 degrees. In practice, optical zoom keeps a presenter at the far end of a training room sharp, rather than the soft crop a fixed-lens bar produces.

Cisco Room Bar

Four beamforming mics plus front-facing tracking mics cover about 3 m. Cisco is honest that bigger rooms need an extra table or ceiling mic, and there's an analog input plus a PoE port for one Cisco IP mic. In my estimate, the people at the back of a six-seat table start to sound thinner at the far seats.

Cisco Room Bar

It runs Webex natively on RoomOS, joins Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls through interop, and can run Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android. A USB-C BYOD mode lets someone bring their own laptop. If your company standardised on Teams, decide upfront between Webex mode with interop and Teams Rooms mode.

Poly Studio E60

The camera is certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms and Google Meet. Poly Lens handles firmware updates, settings and fleet monitoring. For IT teams, Lens lets you push framing modes and updates across many rooms from one console. That consistency matters more than any single feature once you manage dozens of spaces.

Cisco Room Bar

Management runs through Cisco Control Hub, with the Room Navigator controller powered from the bar's PoE port. Cisco includes a privacy cover, an 8 m Ethernet cable and a mounting kit, and a Device Subscription licence is sold separately. Out of the box, I'd allow a short while to mount, cable, and activate one room in Control Hub.

Poly Studio E60

The E60 connects by USB-B to a room PC, or over RJ45 with PoE+ power and data on one cable. A 12 V DC input is available, and Poly includes a 5 m Ethernet cable and a wall mount. PoE+ means a single cable run from the switch, which installers appreciate on ceiling or wall mounts.