Global Crossing is integrating Microsoft Office Live Meeting into its collaboration services portfolio. Live Meeting is a Web conferencing service that enables conference participants to broadcast visuals, applications, Web pages, files, or software in real-time.
"Together, Global Crossing and Microsoft are bringing Live Meeting to the desktops of Global Crossing's multi-national customers, helping support project collaboration and e-business initiatives," says Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer. "With collaboration services such as Global Crossing's Ready-Access audio conferencing service and Live Meeting, we're making it simple for organizations to communicate on-demand and make the best use of their talent pool to drive teamwork and productivity."
Global Crossing customers have already begun to trial the service.
The Microsoft relationship with the carrier has been in place for some time, as Global Crossing recently became the first carrier to fully integrate the scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Outlook directly with Global Crossing's Ready-Access Web Meeting -- an integrated audio and Web conferencing service. The feature, called Ready-Access Scheduler, makes it simple to launch Web meetings.
Plans are also under way for integrating Global Crossing's Ready-Access audio conferencing service with Microsoft Office Live Meeting, enabling users to access Ready-Access audio commands and functionality that will allow them to control and manage their meeting within Live Meeting. In addition, Global Crossing has migrated uCommand, a customer management Web portal that supports e-business tools such as Global Crossing's IP VPN Service, VoIP Serviceand Managed Services onto the Microsoft platform.
