What is a Cisco WebEx?
History of WebEx
Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu founded WebEx in 1996 under the name ActiveTouch Zhu had co-founded Future Labs (one of the first companies to produce multi-point document-collaboration software)in 1991. Zhu met Iyar, then a vice-president and general manager of Quarterdeck, when Quarterdeck acquired Future Labs in 1996. Iyar became president of Future Labs, which had become a Quarterdeck subsidiary, and the same year Iyar and Zhu went on to co-found WebEx. On March 15, 2007, Cisco Systems announced it would acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion.
David Thompson, the first vice-president of marketing at Activetouch, coined the name "WebEx" in late 1998 as the company transitioned from its original software business-model to relaunch as a SaaS company in 1999.[citation needed] Traveling Software, which changed its name in September 1999 to LapLink Software Inc.,originally owned a software product called WebEx, which shipped to the public in June 1996. The LapLink product called WebEx was a utility to be run as a companion to be used for offline web-browsing, a feature subsequently integrated within most commercial modern-day Web browsers.
Traveling Software registered the WebEx trademark in May 1996. In 1999, after the original founder of LapLink returned as CEO, Traveling Software/LapLink.com sold the rights to the WebEx name to the company known as WebEx.
Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Features and Benefits
WebEx Meeting Center, with integrated Audio Teleconferencing from Two Rivers Conferencing delivers all the capabilities needed to empower your entire workforce and increase productivity throughout your organization using collaborative, efficient online meetings.
- Interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime to finish projects faster
- Share applications, presentations, documents and your PC desktop in real time
- Eliminate trading emails between team members with collaborative online meetings
- Eliminate geographic boundaries by sharing applications, presentations and documents
- Bring people together and maximize resources without the time and expense of traveling
Manage Online Web Meetings Easily
WebEx Meeting Center's floating control panels as well as separate attendee and host views make it easy to manage your online meeting functions intuitively, enabling you to focus on the purpose of your meeting.
Meet Face-to-Face Online with WebEx Video
Meet online just as if you were face-to-face and make your online meetings even more engaging with high-quality video that automatically switches to the current speaker. WebEx's Active Speaker feature follows and highlights the current speaker automatically, and you can use full-screen video to display the current speaker.
Security and Scalability with the Cisco Collaboration Cloud
All WebEx solutions are delivered over the global Cisco® Collaboration Cloud, making WebEx Meeting Center easy to implement and scale as your needs change. The content of your online web meeting is never stored on WebEx servers and 128-bit SSL and 256-bit AES encryption ensures your privacy during transmission. And the Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud meets even the strictest client requirements with better than 99.99% reliability and robust security. All WebEx services are audited against ISO-17799 standards, and compliance details are provided in a SAS 70 Type II report and other third-party security reports.
Powerful WebEx Features Make Online Meetings Easy
DOCUMENT, APPLICATION, AND DESKTOP SHARING to remote attendees in real time without the need to upload files to a server.
RICH MULTIMEDIA support for Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Adobe® Flash® animations, audio and video.
MEETING RECORDING, EDITING AND PLAYBACK for future reference, and making training, demonstrations and marketing content available on-demand.
DESKTOP INTEGRATION with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes®, and a variety of instant messaging solutions, including Cisco WebEx Connect.
ONE-CLICK MEETING ACCESS to start a online meeting and invite attendees instantly from your desktop, taskbar or favorite applications.
EASY MEETING INVITATIONS from automated phone call, text message, email from your local client, or from IM, including WebEx Connect and other instant messenger applications.
ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION using Single-Sign-On to access WebEx Meeting Center and other enterprise applications to make enterprise-wide online meetings even more productive and easier to use.
CROSS-PLATFORM SUPPORT for all common operating system platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris—or even on a mobile device.
CISCO COLLABORATION CLOUD PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY supports multipoint interactive online meetings worldwide—without latency or interruptions.
SWITCHED NETWORK, 128-BIT SSL ENCRYPTION AND PKI CERTIFICATES secure your most confidential meetings with end-to-end security encryption and controlled, secure online meeting participant access.
FLOATING PANELS deliver full-screen views for attendees while you manage online meeting activity behind the scenes.
PRESENTATION NOTES PANEL to privately view presentation notes while you share a presentation with your online meeting attendees.
LANGUAGE SUPPORT for English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (simplified and traditional).
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