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Cisco WebEx Expands Support for Apple Mac Users Across Collaboration Suite
March 2008 by Marc Jacob
On-demand collaboration applications and
services WebEx, now part of Cisco®, has expanded Apple Mac support across its
suite of business process collaboration applications. WebEx Meeting Center, WebEx
WebOffice, WebEx Event Center, WebEx Training Center, WebEx Sales Center and WebEx
Support Center now offer cross platform support for Mac OS X Leopard and Safari 3. This
expanded support is part of Cisco WebEx’s ongoing attention to multi-platform support and
its growing customer base of Mac users.
The expanded support for Mac OS X Leopard spans the entire Cisco WebEx
collaboration suite to ensure Mac users receive the reliability, speed and support similar to
what PC users enjoy.
Specific features include:
· Increased launch and join speeds for WebEx Meeting Center
· Better desktop/application sharing performance in WebEx Meeting Center
· Better presentation sharing performance in WebEx Training Center, WebEx Event
Center and WebEx Sales Center
· Up to six videoconferencing channels with a WebEx Meeting Center session
· Better 3D animations in shared Keynote documents across the WebEx suite
· Improved sound quality for VoIP and audio broadcasting across the WebEx suite
Traditionally, Mac support has lagged due to the limited number of corporate users;
however, as adoption of the Mac has grown Cisco WebEx has increased its support for the
platform across its entire suite. Over the last 3 years, Cisco WebEx has added new features
and additional support aimed at Mac users and remains ahead of the competition in
supporting this segment. Most recently, the company announced that its remote access
solution, WebEx PCNow, now provides support for PC-to-Mac, Mac-to-PC and Mac-to-
Mac as well as Apple iPhone sessions.
Cisco WebEx offers free trials of its collaboration services.
Cisco WebEx provides on-demand collaboration applications to individuals, small
businesses and enterprise organizations. Cisco WebEx applications combine both
synchronous and asynchronous collaboration capabilities and enable businesses to leverage
the web as an efficient channel for interaction with customers, partners and co-workers.
WebEx Connect, the first collaborative on-demand platform, will enable developers and
customers to integrate multiple applications to create powerful collaborative business
"mashup" solutions from web-based, on-premises and desktop applications. WebEx Connect
brings together people, process and data in a collaborative workspace designed for the way
business people work today.
