SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 17, 2009) -
Overview: Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) is announcing further expansion of
its mobile collaboration portfolio offering for leading 3G smartphones.
Users will be able to join Cisco WebEx Meeting Center web and audio
conferences on smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve
8900, and BlackBerry Storm from RIM, the Nokia E71, Nokia E75, Nokia N97,
and other Nokia Eseries and Nseries, and the Samsung Blackjack II. They
will be able to participate in audio and web conferencing via 3G or
Wi-Fi, attend scheduled meetings and view presentations, applications and
desktops with live annotations. In addition, Cisco is announcing the
capability for hosts of Cisco WebEx meeting applications, including Meeting
Center, Training Center, and Event Center to invite attendees with
SMS-capable phones to attend meetings by responding to an SMS invitation.
Highlights / Key Facts:
With Cisco WebEx™ meetings on a smartphone, users are no longer out of
touch when on the road. Productive meetings with customers, colleagues and
partners are now as easy as a phone call. In response to customer needs,
Cisco is expanding its offering of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center to include
smartphones such as the BlackBerry® Bold™, BlackBerry Curve™ 8900,
and BlackBerry Storm™ from Research In Motion (RIM), the Nokia E71,
Nokia E75, Nokia N97, and other Nokia Eseries and Nseries, and the Samsung
Blackjack II. Support for these smartphones is scheduled to be available in
April 2009.
Users will be able to launch Cisco WebEx Meeting Center through the browser
on their smartphones to receive integrated audio and web conferencing over
3G or a combination of 2G and Wi-Fi. In addition, users will be able to
attend a scheduled meeting and to view presentations, applications and
desktops with live annotations. This offering is planned to be available on
several smartphone operating systems including BlackBerry, Symbian, and
Windows Mobile. There is no cost to attend these meetings, but to schedule
and host a meeting from a computer requires a host account on Cisco WebEx
Meeting Center.
In addition, by sending an SMS message, meeting hosts will now be able to
invite a mobile attendee on any SMS-capable mobile phone to a meeting in
progress and the attendee will simply reply "1" to easily join the audio
portion of a meeting with Cisco WebEx Meeting Center, Training Center, and
Event Center.
Tags / Keywords:
Cisco, WebEx, online meetings, mobility, mobile conferencing, conferencing
applications, web conferencing, collaboration, 3G, on-premise, on-premises,
on-demand, mobile meetings, unified communications, hosted, Wi-Fi,
smartphone, mobile collaboration, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Windows Mobile,
Nokia, Symbian
Links / URLs:
Cisco WebEx Meeting
Center --
http://webex.com/enterprise/web-meeting.html
Cisco WebEx Mobility --
www.webex.com/mobile
Cisco WebEx Technology Group--
http://webex.com/
Cisco
Collaboration --
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns870/index.html
Cisco
Enhances the Mobile Collaboration Experience with the iPhone --
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_010609c.html
Quotes:
"Cisco has long been a valuable partner of ours, and we have been working
closely with them to integrate their complete business collaboration
offering seamlessly into the Nokia mobile experience," said Waldemar
Sakalus, Vice President, Nokia. "Both companies are focused on making
mobile working as efficient as possible, which is especially important in
the current climate. Cisco WebEx Meeting Center extends our joint solution
portfolio in mobile collaboration, and we are delighted to make mobile
meetings available for millions of people using Nokia smartphones."
"With the availability of applications such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center
on a larger number of 3G smartphones, 2009 looks set to be the year when
enterprise applications like web conferencing become truly mobile,
providing workers with access to their corporate applications on the go,"
said John Simon, managing director, Optus Enterprise and Business Group.
"In the current economic climate, increased productivity and greater
collaboration between the best and brightest people in your organization is
high on every company's agenda. Cisco WebEx Meeting Center is a great tool
to facilitate this."
"Enabling access to Cisco WebEx Meeting Center over BlackBerry smartphones
offers a rich collaborative experience that will be welcomed by customers,"
said Jeff McDowell, vice president of Global Alliances at Research In
Motion. "This solution enhances mobile worker productivity with secure
access and uses the unique and intuitive 'Join Now' capability of the
BlackBerry platform -- where one click connects to the conference
automatically."
"For the way we need to work today, this offering is an important step
toward increasing business productivity," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice
president, enterprise research, Yankee Group. "With the Cisco solution
available on all of these smartphones, workers will be able to have a lot
more choice, a lot more freedom, and those two things translate directly to
being able to collaborate quickly and easily, thus getting business
decisions made faster."
"Cisco is now extending the collaborative experience to leading
smartphones," said Doug Dennerline, senior vice president of Cisco's
Collaboration Software Group. "The freedom that users will be able to gain
from using this solution will help businesses and their employees to
increase productivity because workers will be able to work wherever and
whenever they wish, using their chosen device."
Embedded Videos, Images and Podcasts:
Podcast:
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac78/audio/1_28_09_92535_AR_Podcast.mp3
Video: Cisco Showcases Newest Additions to WebEx Mobile Business
Collaboration Offering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwSab3TWJs
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