Highlights / Key Facts:

Out of the office or on the move no longer means out of the loop. Cisco(NASDAQ: CSCO) is extending its web conferencing and collaborationcapabilities to the Apple iPhone 3G user experience, with Cisco WebExMeeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.

The new Cisco WebEx meetings iPhone application, which is available forfree download from the AppStore, allows users to simply click to join andactively collaborate in CiscoWebEx meetings. With Cisco WebEx MeetingCenter application on the iPhone, users can view what's being shared, seethe meeting participant list, see the active speaker and chat with othermeeting participants.

The online meeting experience gives users the ability to take advantageof simultaneous web and audio conferencing capabilities from Cisco on boththe 3G mobile and 802.11 wireless (Wi-Fi) networks. The solution supportsmultiple telephony configurations including SaaS-based telephony from CiscoWebEx Meeting Center, premises-based telephony from Cisco UnifiedMeetingPlace, or telephony from Cisco's service provider partners. Thedownload is free from the AppStore. Users need to have currentsubscriptions to the WebEx services to schedule or host a meeting.

A future version of the solution will include Cisco WebEx MeetingCenter as well as the ability to see meeting participants and the activespeaker from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Users will be able to movein-session Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlaceconferences from the Apple iPhone 3G to an office environment and back, bytransferring the audio to a Cisco Unified IP Phone and the web conferenceto a computer for a rich collaboration experience.

Tags / Keywords:

Cisco, WebEx, online meetings, mobility, mobile conferencing, Apple,iPhone, conferencing applications, web conferencing, collaboration, 3G,on-premise, on-premises, on-demand, mobile meetings, unifiedcommunications, hosted, Wi-Fi

Links / URLs:

Demo: www.webex.com/iphone

Mobile Microsite: my.webex.com

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center:http://www.webex.com/enterprise/web-meeting-center.html

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/index.html

Cisco Unified Communications:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns151/networking_solutions_unified_communications_home.html

Quotes:

"The Apple iPhone with Cisco's WebEx technology capabilities makes asimple, but very powerful interface," said Dan Burrier, chief creativeofficer and co-president, Ogilvy West. "This kind of capability on a mobiledevice changes everything. Another perceptual barrier to using the iPhonefor business has just fallen. Now it's in the mainstream, explodingoutwards, and expanding business productivity."

"Three trends are disrupting past assumptions on how people interactwith collaborative applications," said Mike Gotta, principal analyst atBurton Group. "First, a person's consumer computing experience willincreasingly determine their mobile device preference. Second, maturingnetwork and platform capabilities of mobile devices will make it easier todeliver new levels of application functionality. Third, the idea of 'whereI am is where I work' will change the design point -- and demand for --collaborative tools such as web conferencing."

"This solution highlights Cisco's commitment to bringing businessproductivity to the user in their preferred environment," said June Bower,vice president of marketing for Cisco's WebEx Technology Group. "When apowerful collaboration solution is combined with an elegant userexperience, and a choice of device, businesses and users both win."

Podcast: Cisco Brings Collaboration to the iPhone:http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/eKits/Cenhancesthemobileco_1230079548_8x2yQSo8G4RxHVo5.mp3

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