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WebEx MeetMeNow Brings Users Face to Face with New Video Conferencing, Integrates wtih Microsoft Office

Web Meeting Service Recreates In-Person Experience with Advanced Collaboration Features for Individual Professionals

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2007—On-demand collaboration applications and services leader WebEx, now part of Cisco®, today launched a new version of its Web meeting service for individual professionals, MeetMeNow. The new version adds personal video conferencing capabilities and one-click Web meetings from within the Microsoft Office productivity suite.

 

Priced at $49 per month, MeetMeNow meetmenow.webex.com is a cost-effective, easy-to-use solution for holding meetings on the Web. MeetMeNow integrates data, voice and video, allowing users to instantly launch highly interactive online meetings from the desktop, Microsoft Outlook and Office, and multiple instant messaging services. Delivered on the WebEx MediaTone Network, a global network specifically designed for the highly secure delivery of on-demand applications, MeetMeNow provides seamless video and desktop sharing without the net congestion or reliability problems frequently found in other Web meeting offerings.

 

With MeetMeNow, the user can:

• Share the entire desktop in real time, complete with rich annotation tools

• View Web meeting participants via integrated video conferencing

• Launch meetings directly from the Windows system tray, Microsoft Outlook and Office, Yahoo, MSN Messenger or AIM

• Access all of the features necessary to host effective online meetings from an always-available meeting control panel

• Invite attendees to join a conference call

• Pass control of documents or applications to any attendee in real time

 

 

To learn more about MeetMeNow or to register for a free 14 day trial, go to meetmenow.webex.com

 

“MeetMeNow puts the award-winning Web collaboration power of WebEx into the hands of the individual,” said Ilan Kasan, director of product management, Cisco WebEx. “With the increasing prevalence of video hardware in entry-level personal computers, MeetMeNow can make face-to-face video meetings a reality for businesspeople in a company of any size. By adding tight integration with a productivity suite, WebEx allows users to launch meetings from within the context of their work.”

 

New video capabilities help create a compelling face-to-face Web meeting experience. MeetMeNow automatically finds and configures a user’s camera, making it an effortless process to begin using video. A meeting host can even switch between any of the meeting participants’ video streams to create a virtual roundtable video experience. In addition, the MeetMeNow toolbar now integrates with the Microsoft Office suite, allowing users to launch a Web meeting while working on a document, spread sheet or presentation.

 

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With 2.3 million registered users, Cisco WebEx is the global leader in on-demand applications for collaborative business on the web. WebEx offers a full suite of web collaboration applications for specific business processes including marketing, sales, training, and support. Companies of every size gain strategic advantage by using WebEx to replace high-cost/high-touch interactions with efficient web-touch interactions. WebEx applications work across firewalls and across platforms, making them ideal for both internal and external collaboration. Cisco WebEx provides its services over the WebEx MediaTone Network, a secure global network specifically designed for on-demand applications. Please call toll free 877-509-3239 or visit www.webex.com for more information

 

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