+1 IMHO: The blog entries by Cisco as well as of competitors like zoom or goto-meeting are interesting to read not only to find free services, but also to learn more about the increase/change of use of conferencing due to CoVid-1. Wrt. client side integration: Given how WebRTC communications uses the IETF rtcweb WG standards, it certainly makes sense for IETF'ler to try it (own dog food...). AFAIK, all the web conferencing vendors support it now. Most newer market competitors may not even have a native client options anymore. Mileage if its better than "native" clients will of course vary, but in my experience the RTCweb option is often also a great fallback when some native client option does not work because of incompatibilities of OS (e.g.: linux), OS-versions, audio/video I/O or the like. I use it regularily with zoom and webex. On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 04:10:57PM -0800, Sarah Banks wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the note and thanks to Cisco for the community service - it's useful, good to know, and I appreciate you letting ietf@ know. > > (No, I don't work for Cisco. No, I'm not buying you beer. But I thought someone should say thanks!) > > /S > > > On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:00 PM, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Just as bit of information for folks about a change in Webex ??? > > > > One of the concerns in the past has been access to local dial in numbers and cost of Webex. Due to COVID-19 situation, during this time, Cisco is making webex free for most places it operates and for meetings up to 100 people. You can find more details and the fine print at > > > > https://blog.webex.com/video-conferencing/cisco-webex-supporting-customers-during-this-unprecedented-time/ > > > > The WebRTC version of webex works in my favorite browsers so no need to install anything proprietary. > > > > Webex is preparing to add multiple billions of minutes of month more of capacity to the existing billions of minutes it currently sees (yah cloud and thanks to whoever designed this scaleable internet thing ). > > > > I???m only providing this updated information as this tool is often used by IETF WGs. I???m perfectly happy if the IETF chooses to use hangouts, or zoom, or MS Teams, meet echo, or whatever you like - I am only providing some info about the greatly expanded ability to use a tool we often use. If you find this free tool helpful, great, if you do not, please forgive me for adding one more unhelpful message to this, uh words fail me, mailing list. > > -- --- tte@xxxxxxxxx
