Jabra PanaCast 50 vs Poly Studio E60 Comparison

Jabra PanaCast 50

Three 13 MP sensors stitch a 180° panoramic 4K image at 3840 x 1080. Virtual Director picks the active speaker, and Intelligent Zoom keeps the whole group framed as people come and go. However, with people pushed right up against the side walls during my session, the 180° view kept everyone in frame without the distortion of a fisheye.

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.

Jabra PanaCast 50

The PanaCast 50 has speaker tracking: Automatic Speaker Detection. Auto framing is included (Intelligent Zoom, Dynamic Composition, Virtual Director). Official AI features include Virtual Director, Intelligent Zoom, Dynamic Composition, Intelligent Meeting Space, PeopleCount, Vivid HDR, dual-stream whiteboard. Multi-stream or gallery options are listed as Single-stream and multi-stream Dynamic Composition (multi-stream on Microsoft Teams Rooms).

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.

Jabra PanaCast 50

Eight beamforming mics remove echo and static noise and work in full duplex. Jabra sizes it for rooms up to about 4.5 x 6 m. In my estimate, voices stay solid out to the far side of a typical table from the bar. Because the PanaCast 50 doesn't support expansion mics, longer rooms are better served by a Logitech Rally Bar with Mic Pods.

Jabra PanaCast 50

It's certified for Microsoft Teams, Teams Rooms, Zoom and Zoom Rooms. As a USB device, it works with any meeting app on the host PC. For Teams Rooms on Windows, pair it with a certified compute. Our Teams Rooms equipment guide lists the parts you'll need. Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms certification covers the two appliance paths most offices care about.

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.

Jabra PanaCast 50

A wall mount, 2 m USB-C to USB-A cable and power supply are in the box. Jabra Direct, Xpress and Sound+ handle configuration, and a Bluetooth LE remote controls manual PTZ. Mounting and cabling one room should take a short while. Run firmware updates before the first meeting, because Virtual Director has improved with updates.

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.