Cisco Unveils WebEx Collaboration Meeting Room Service

Cisco Systems (CSCO) yesterday launched a Collaboration Meeting Room (CMR) service for WebEx at Cisco Live in San Francisco.

WebEx solutions promote collaboration and information sharing, and CMRs build on the Cisco TelePresence video infrastructure and cloud-hosted WebEx Meeting Center capabilities, the company said.

The CMR service allows anyone to host video meetings from desktop, mobile or room systems. In addition, the service provides a personal video collaboration space in the cloud, and users can choose between on-premises deployment or cloud consumption from the WebEx Cloud, or they can mix both of these options into a hybrid model.

“Combined with the Collaboration Meeting Room service, users can have their own always-on private meeting room to collaborate with anyone on any device at any time,” Rowan Trollope, general manager and senior vice president of Cisco’s collaboration technology group, said in a prepared statement.

Cisco said CMR users can schedule meetings, conduct instant meetings or meet in a permanent always-on meeting room. The company also said its service can accommodate more concurrent users than any other enterprise-grade solution.

Todd Strubbe, president of West‘s Unified Communications operating segment, said he believes CMR allows his company’s customers to collaborate in more ways than before.

“CMR has the ability to scale to accommodate hundreds of participants at any time and offers broad interoperability, providing West with a more complete set of services that protect customers’ investments while delivering new ways to collaborate,” Strubbe said in a prepared statement.

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