Cisco® Collaboration Flex Plan is a single subscription that gives you access to Cisco's collaboration services and software. It also allows you to mix and match buying models and deployment models depending on your needs at any given time.
Call Service Aware can enable instant desktop sharing when you call another Cisco Spark user. No formal meeting is required. When Cisco Spark sees you have made a call to another Spark user, the Spark app on your desktop will automatically begin a meeting and allow screen sharing with a single click.
BroadCloud is a global platform hosted by Cisco that lets service providers deploy a full suite of calling and collaboration applications. Applications can be scaled to meet the needs of enterprises, no matter what size or industry.
A Webex meeting is an online meeting that allows you to virtually meet with other people, without leaving your home or office. Webex meetings require a computer with Internet access and a separate phone line.
Dial out to yourself and other participants
- From within the WebEx session, click the Connect to Audio button on the Quick Start page.
- Click the Call Me dialog box and: Select country/region from the drop down menu. Enter the phone number to call. Click Call Me.
Cisco WebEx Meetings has many more features than GoToMeeting, making it a better choice for those who want to host advanced web meetings. GoToMeeting offers a free 14-day trial, while Cisco WebEx Meetings has a free version for personal use with fewer features.
The GoToMeeting Free plan is a great way to get started with quick and easy online meetings. The free plan allows you and your coworkers or friends to collaborate with high-quality screen sharing, webcams, VoIP audio and chat messaging in one session – no download needed.
WebEx does not have a conference room solution. Zoom is the only solution to support sharing computer audio during screen sharing. WebEx can only share screen but not with computer audio. Zoom is optimized to share video content, providing higher frames per second.
Zoom offers a full-featured Basic Plan for free with unlimited meetings. Try Zoom for as long as you like - there is no trial period. Your Basic plan has a 40 minutes time limit on meetings with three or more total participants. Zoom accepts credit card and Paypal payments online.
Cisco Webex Teams, apart from paid client, offers a free client that provide great services to any user.
Adobe Connect (which begins at $50 per month) is a video conferencing service geared toward tailoring the user experience (UX).
Cisco Webex Meetings Service for video and web conferencing with a capacity of 25 and/or 200 attendees per session for Named User. For the Ports offer, the customer can have as many attendees as ports as the subscriber owns, up to 1,000. For Active User and Employee Count, the meeting capacity is 1,000.
Cloud telephony, also known as cloud calling, is a type of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) that offers voice communication services through a third party host. UCaaS replaces the need for conventional enterprise telephone systems, such as PBX. Cloud telephony services can be web- or applications-based.
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) is a cloud delivery model that offers a variety of communication and collaboration applications and services.
