Cisco WebEx Meeting Center allows business professionals to easily and reliably reach across the web to collaborate with colleagues, partners and customers, inside and outside their organization. The solution increases the reach, speed and the cost effectiveness of business through media-rich web-based meetings that enable multiple parties to conduct business meetings online—anywhere, anytime, any device including computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix) and now on BlackBerry smartphones and other smartphones.

WebEx meeting attendees can now join scheduled meetings on their BlackBerry smartphones.

One-Click “Join Now” audio conference

A unique “Join Now” button on the BlackBerry calendar event reminder makes it easy for you to connect instantly to the audio portion of a WebEx meeting with just one click—right from your BlackBerry. The WebEx conferencing system calls your BlackBerry smartphone and connects you to the WebEx meeting. Cisco WebEx Audio conferencing service is required for this feature.

Integrated audio and web conference

You may also join a WebEx meeting and view both audio and data simultaneously on a BlackBerry smartphone.

• Attend a pre-scheduled meeting on BlackBerry smartphones with integrated audio and web conferencing. Attendees can join meeting from the meeting invitation email, from a link in the calendar event, or from the company’s WebEx site—all from BlackBerry smartphones.

• View a presentation, applications and desktops shared from another computer with annotations.

• View list of attendees and meeting information.

WebEx meetings needs to be first scheduled and started on a computer. Integrated audio conferencing options include Cisco WebEx Audio, Cisco MeetingPlace Audio and Third-party Telephony Service Provider audio conferencing services.

BlackBerry platform release 4.6.1 or higher is required to use the “Join Now” feature. This feature is supported on the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphones.

BlackBerry platform release 4.6.0 or higher is required for the integrated audio and web conferencing on the Blackberry Bold 9000 and Blackberry Curve 8900 smartphones. In Europe, BlackBerry Storm 9500 is also supported.

To use WebEx on your smartphone, you’ll need an active 3G cellular or WiFi connection. Users can also attend WebEx meetings on 2.5G phones but they’ll need to select only one media, either data or voice. If 3G is used as the access network, the smartphone needs to be compatible to the local 3G network.

The mobility features on BlackBerry smartphones are supported on the latest release of WebEx Meeting Center (WBS27).

There is no cost for attendees to join meetings on BlackBerry smartphones. You must have a current WebEx Meeting Center subscription to schedule or host a meeting on a computer. Regular telephony and data charges still apply; please check with your mobile operator for more information.

WebEx Meeting Center on BlackBerry is available to customer upon request. If you are interested, please contact your Cisco WebEx Account Manager.

Yes, WebEx applications are available globally with meting attendees from 150+ countries. Besides English, WebEx Meeting Center is localized in French, Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

All WebEx meetings are delivered on an on-demand, carrier-grade Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud, configurable for each organization’s policy requirements.

All of the data exchanged in Cisco WebEx meeting applications is routed through the Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud, a dedicated, secure and global network of data centers. This network provides 24/7 accessibility with fail over capabilities and accommodates peak usage times.

Whenever Cisco WebEx meeting applications are used, the data is encrypted and hosted on this secure network and delivered to a variety of end points including desktops and mobile devices.