- Pricing will depend on the scale of your requirements so Cisco require that you contact them directly
- High end scalable and deployable web conferencing solution
- Combines voice and video capabilities in one system
- Share applications and desktops between participants
- Switch control between desktops easily
- Can support very large scale web seminars and conferences
- No downloads required for participants
- Traffic runs over your organization's IP networks to reduce toll charges
- Recognizes a user's phone number and automatically connects them to the meeting
- Intuitive user interfaces
- Integrates with your organization's phone network
- Integrates with Lotus Sametime
- Very strong security features
- Fully outsource the system or run it on your own servers
- Display shared applications in full screen
- Record whole meetings to playback later
- Participants can annotate the screen
- Compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris
Cisco Unified Meeting Place is a high end web and voice conferencing solution that can be installed on your own servers and works with your company's existing infrastructure. This scale of system is really only suitable for midsized to large organisations, but will likely be very cost effective once in place. Clearly, coming from Cisco, both the hardware and software are top quality, very reliable and very secure.
Cisco Unified Meeting Place is suitable for just about any type of web conferencing event you would care to host. The different versions can handle different numbers of participants, with the top end able to support up to 1,000 at the same time. Participants can join conferences in a variety of different ways: from the web, via the downloadable client or just by phone and everything integrates to provide an all in one conferencing solution. Once inside a meeting, the host can share the desktop with other participants and easily switch between presenters, giving control to other people. Both the host and other participants can annotate the screen in whiteboard fashion in order to highlight important features.
There are plenty of possibilities for communication with Cisco Unified Meeting Place. The system has integrated support for VOIP so guests can choose to dial in this way or use a normal telephone to dial in using the teleconferencing facilities. A handy feature is that the system will recognise the caller's telephone number and automatically connect them to the conference call. Guests can also choose to broadcast via their webcam with up to 240 concurrent broadcasts possible using the top end version.
The security features of Cisco Unified Meeting Place are top notch, as you would expect from a system like this. No matter which version you choose, all your communications are encrypted using SSL, but with the higher end versions there are also extra security features added. The express edition incorporates Cisco Security Agent for built in protection against attacks and also has internet lock out controls to keep important meetings behind the company firewall. The conferencing edition integrates with company directories to provide more authentication possibilities.
Cisco Unified Meeting Place is a top quality product that could significantly reduce the costs of web conferencing for large organisations when compared with a monthly plan from other web conferencing services. If you have the infrastructure and the need for a robust and reliable conferencing solution Cisco will certainly not disappoint.
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