Why is Google Hangout Meet Kit Gaining Massive Popularity?

It’s very uncommon nowadays to find someone who hasn’t used, or at least heard of Google Hangout –  It is second in line to the consumer video chat throne after Polycom, closely contended by Cisco, and all three of which have brought video calling to the masses. Cost Effective, Hangout Meet Kit.

Video gives people not only the information but also the experience of what an individual is all about.

Video conferencing world is experiencing colossal changes. The technology has become streamlined enough, to the extent that it's easy for average users to use, and the costs are falling dramatically, as new business models are taking off.

Here we are analyzing two gigantic video conferencing tools - Google Hangout Meet Kit and Polycom Video conferencing Tool.

Google Hangout Meet Kit - It is a video conferencing application from Google.

It’s web as well as mobile compliant and is a business-oriented video conferencing application. Scheduling and managing of meetings have become very easy with the help of this application.

Google has recently announced specialized hardware kit for enterprises. This app is designed both for Android and iOS devices.

Polycom Video Conferencing -They have entered video conferencing business in 1998. Since then, Polycom has acquired several video vendors to become leading video conferencing providers in the market.

It has three endpoint categories: Personal, Room and Immersive Telepresence.

Why is Hangout Meet Kit getting so popular?

1. Google Hangout is cost effective so it is useful for SMB who maybe having cost crunch, so they can utilize this particular platform for video conferencing and similar activities. These organizations can save money for other business tasks till the time that they have enough saved budget to go for the upgraded tools like polycom, cisco etc.

2. The diagnosing issues in google hangout are very less but in polycom, it is a major drawback and the tools offered within the client are unhelpful in identifying where the problem is occurring which keeps google hangout ahead of polycom.

3. Using video call requires a good bandwidth. Any organization which has the standard bandwidth, meet kit works properly for it, but when compared to polycom, the requirement of bandwidth is very high. In case of insufficient bandwidth, the video becomes hazy and the pictures become blurry.

4. Polycom does not handle scaling the interface well across high-resolution displays. If the user is sharing content from a 4K enabled device and the receiving end does not handle 4K, they end up with an image too big to be useful. However, in Hangout meet kit, this works perfectly and there is no issue in scaling.

5. The interface of Hangout meet kit is very easy to configure and use, where you can directly schedule a meeting or conference in few clicks, but when compared to others the interface is very perplexing. Also, it is tedious to add participant into the conference and meeting.

6. Polycom lags in any sort of content sharing because of the issues around resolution. If someone needs to share content of any kind, Hangout meet kit allows seamless sharing of content from any device and is the best application where we can do it very easily.