Webex Costs

Web conferencing may be used as an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web seminars ("webinars"), webcasts, and peer-level web meetings. It may also be used in a more narrow sense to refer only to the peer-level web meeting context, in an attempt to disambiguate it from the other types of collaborative sessions. Terminology related to these technologies is inexact, and no generally agreed upon source or standards organization exists to provide an established usage reference. In general, web conferencing is made possible by Internet technologies, particularly on TCP/IP connections. Services may allow real-timepoint-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one sender to many receivers. It offers data streams of text-based messages, voice and video chat to be shared simultaneously, across geographically dispersed locations. Applicat...

Services At the time of the acquisition, all WebEx applications were built on the MediaTone platform and supported by the WebEx MediaTone Network (originally called the WebEx interactive network), a global network intended for use with on-demand programs. The network was designed by Shaun Bryant, WebEx's Chief Network Architect, and Zaid Ali Sr, Network Architect, to be one of the first SaaS platforms on the internet. The company acquired  Intranets.com  in 2005, providing entrance into the small- and mid-size business market through the company's customer base of businesses with fewer than 100 employees. It acquired the ability to offer online collaboration tools such as discussion forums, document sharing and calendaring while Intranets.com provided access to the WebEx communications environment for its customers. On February 21, 2006, AOL and WebEx announced plans to launch a business version of AOL's instant...

Cisco WebEx , formerly  WebEx Communications Inc .  is a company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting,  web conferencing  and  videoconferencing  applications. Its products include Meeting Center, Training Center, Event Center, Support Center, Sales Center, MeetMeNow, PCNow, WebEx AIM Pro Business Edition, WebEx WebOffice, and WebEx Connect. All WebEx products are part of the  Cisco  collaboration portfolio. All Cisco WebEx products are offered by Cisco Systems Inc. History 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. 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...