subject: Rhubs Turbomeeting For Different Platforms [print this page] In recent days, because of the economic downturn businesses are now opting for web conferencing tools to help reduce costs associated with travel and fuel and at the same time increase productivity. In particular, internet web video conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet.
There are numerous online web conferencing tools available on the market for the business needs nowadays. Even though they are inexpensive compared to the travel and other expenditure, they are still costly. San Jose, Calif.-based RHUB (Real-Time Collaboration HUB) Communications has declared that their online collaboration appliances is efficient and affordable for any type of businesses.
There are various vendors available on the markets who offer Web conference appliances as a subscription-based service. But the only drawback is that the costs of these services tend to increase as more business users begin to use them. RHUBs conferencing appliances powered by its unique TurboMeeting technology not just enable web conference but also offer users remote support, remote control and remote access technologies ass well.
According to the company, RHUB appliances are also easy-to-use and deploy appliance. It will not cost the user any kind of IT maintenance fees and also the firmware for the appliances is updated automatically. The newly released TurboMeeting Version 4.0 web conferencing and remote support appliance comes packed with upgraded features like remote printing, LDAP integration for enterprise models only, video broadcast, and flash-based view-only client with faster and reliable view-only experience that does not require any kind of download.
The appliances offer users full control over their web conferencing technology and its cross-platform compliancy allows users from all different platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, UNIX and even iPhone to join meetings. TurboMeeting can be used for web conferencing, webinar, remote support and remote access and participants need not download nor install any related software.
The TurboMeeting powered 4-in-1 web conferencing solutions from RHUB are available to businesses in various models. The TM-200 model which supports 2 meeting rooms and 10 concurrent users is priced at $995. Users can also upgrade the solution to support four rooms and twenty users. The high-end model has a default capacity of 50 meeting rooms and 200 concurrent users and is expandable to 200 rooms and 2,000 users.
RHUB says that with their solutions businesses ROI can be as short as 2.5 months compared with hosted web services.