[cisco-voip] Meetingplace or just use Webex

[Nick Matthews]

Couple different things here.

Meetingplace prior to 8 could do:
-Web conferencing (desktop share)
-Video
-Audio
-Scheduling

Meetingplace 8+ can do:
-Audio
-Video
-Scheduling

Webex can do:
-Web conferencing
-Audio
-Video
-Scheduling

Webex audio can be:
-Webex audio
-Meetingplace audio
-3rd party (service provider, handful of others)

Meetingplace is not for web conferencing, and is normally used to lower the
cost of audio minutes from 3rd party suppliers.  I don't see it used as
video conferencing as much now with Webex and MCUs becoming more popular.

Meetingplace is more or less deprecating their scheduling and preferring to
use Webex for the scheduling. If you've got any type of Webex contract at
all (even 1 port) you're fine for scheduling.

So to answer your question: people use meetingplace to host audio
conferences, for either standalone conferences or the audio for Webex web
conferences. It can be a little confusing.

-nick
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Jason Aarons (AM) <
jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:

> The “Cloud” is sometimes a place you through more money at ( and a lot
> sometimes) , while a onsite MeetingPlace box is a fixed cost.  At least
> that is how a customer explained it.****
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Ratliff
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:00 PM
> *To:* Andy
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> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Meetingplace or just use Webex****
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> I'll defer to any of the folks that sell this stuff but to my
> understanding the big difference is whether you want to keep everything in
> your network.  WebEx conferencing is all done in the cloud.  Some customers
> don't like this and want to keep everything internal.****
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> -Ryan****
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> On May 10, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Andy wrote:****
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> Hi,
> I guess that this is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway!
> Why would you deploy Meetingplace and not just use Webex for Conferencing.
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> Andy
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