Here is the list of Top 5 conferencing apps that you can use for your school classes and office meetings
This is my first blog. Hope you like it!We all people around the globe are stuck in the house because of the ongoing pandemic.During this time the “Work From Home” Concept is trending. There are many free conferencing apps that are useful, but most of the people don’t know which app is best for them.So here is a list of the TOP 5 video conferencing apps that are very useful.
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1# ZOOM
One of the best Video Conferencing apps you can use
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Zoom) is an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations.
The use of the platform is free for video conferences of up to 100 participants, with a 40-minute time limit. For longer or larger conferences with more features, paid subscriptions are available, costing $15ā20 per month. Features geared towards business conferences, such as Zoom Rooms, are available for $50ā100 per month.
Eric Yuan, a former Cisco Webex engineer, and executive founded Zoom in 2011 and launched its software in 2013. On 27 April 2020, an agreement was made between Mihai Viteazul National College and Zoom to lift the 40-minute restriction for all meetings made by anyone with an e-mail with the domain cnmv.ro. This was done to encourage online schooling in Romania during the ongoing 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
2# GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting is a web-hosted service created and marketed by LogMeIn.It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients, or colleagues via the Internet in real-time. In late 2015, Citrix announced plans to spin-off the GoToMeeting business as a stand-alone subsidiary with a market value of around $4 billion. In July 2016, Citrix and LogMeIn announced plans to merge the GoTo family of products.
3# Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration. The service integrates with the Office 365 subscription office productivity suite and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products. Microsoft Teams is a competitor to services such as Slack and is the evolution and upgrade path from Microsoft Skype for Business.
Microsoft announced Teams at an event in New York and launched the service worldwide on March 14, 2017. It was created during an internal hackathon at the company and is currently led by Brian MacDonald, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
4# Google Meet
Google Meet is a video communication service developed by Google. It is one of two apps that constitute the new version of Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat. Google will begin to retire the classic version of Hangouts in October 2019.
After being invite-only and quietly releasing an iOS app in February 2017, Google formally launched Meet in March 2017. The service was unveiled as a video conferencing app for up to 30 participants, described as an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts. At launch, it featured a web app, an Android app, and an iOS app. Features for G Suite users include:
- Up to 100 members per call for G Suite Basic users
- Up to 150 for G Suite Business users
- Up to 250 for G Suite Enterprise users
- Ability to join meetings from the web or through the Android or iOS app
- Ability to call into meetings with a dial-in number
- Password-protected dial-in numbers for G Suite Enterprise edition users
- Integration with Google Calendar for one-click meeting calls
- Screen-sharing to present documents, spreadsheets, or presentations
- Encrypted calls between all users
- Real-time, AI-generated closed captioning
While Google Meet introduced the above features to upgrade the original Hangouts application, some standard Hangouts features were deprecated, including viewing attendees and chat simultaneously. The number of video feeds allowed at one time was also reduced to 8 (while up to 4 feeds can be shown in a “tiles” layout), prioritizing those attendees who most recently used their microphone. Additionally features such as the chatbox etc. were changed to overlay the video feeds, rather than resizing the latter to fit.
Google Meet is a standards-based video conferencing application, using proprietary protocols for video, audio, and data transcoding. Google has partnered with Pexip to provide interoperability between the Google protocol and standards-based SIP/H.323 protocols to enable communications between Meet and other Video Conferencing equipment and software.
5# Cisco Webex
Cisco Webex is an American company that develops and sells web conferencing and videoconferencing applications. It was formed in 2007 when Cisco Systems acquired Webex. Its headquarters is in Milpitas, California.
Its known software products are Webex Meetings, Webex Teams, Training Center, Event Center, Support Center, Sales Center, MeetMeNow, PCNow, Webex AIM Pro Business Edition, Webex WebOffice, and WebEx Connect. All Webex products are part of the Cisco Systems collaboration portfolio.
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