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I'd bet only a fraction of the cost of a system like you describe is tied up in the hardware. There's the cost of installing the hardware (running power, networking), managing it (device software updates), paying for a recurring subscription to the service.

Not to mention the risk of having old hardware on your network that doesn't get software updates anymore.

And anyways once a company is looking at something like this most will happily justify it balanced against something like "lost productivity".