Web Conferencing

If you have a Web browser, you have a meeting.

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What if you could conduct collaborative, visual, interactive meetings, with anyone, anywhere in the world, right from your desk? With TELUS Web Conferencing you can. Make a sales presentation, demonstrate a product, collaborate on an issue, train employees – without having to travel or juggle schedules. With no software to install, it’s as easy as opening your Web browser.

  • Demonstrate new products and services to potential clients with significantly reduced travel time and increased productivity
  • Collaborate with anyone anywhere on documents, whiteboard sessions and issue resolution
  • Deliver interactive training quickly and cost effectively
  • Choose unlimited monthly or pay-per-use subscriptions based on expected use

Key Features and Benefits

Everything that you do in a face to face meeting and more, you can do in a Web meeting. And more. That’s the advantage of having a visual environment. Participants can follow along in real time and provide input as needed. It’s a true collaborative environment without the cost and complexity of bringing people to one location.

  • Anything you can see and do on your computer can be shared with others in real time -- review and edit files, whiteboard, solicit feedback, control PCs remotely, broadcast video and share applications
  • Any participant in the meeting can take control to facilitate real time collaboration
  • Customer service representatives are available 24/7 to assist with meetings and provide training
  • Security is guaranteed through compatibility with firewall technology, password protection and encryption of all session content

TELUS now offers three Web Conferencing solutions:

  • Microsoft Live Meeting from TELUS - is a robust web conferencing solution that connects and engages audiences in online meetings, training and events through a reliable, enterprise class hosted service
  • Web Collaboration from TELUS, powered by WebEx: Feature rich web conferencing powered by WebEx, the market share leader for web conferencing solutions. Web Collaboration from TELUS can meet all of your web conferencing requirements, no matter how complex.
  • TELUS Web Conference on Demand: Priced from $0.22/min or $50 per month for unlimited usage (lower for TELUS Audio Conference customers on discount plans), this integrated web conferencing product is one of the most cost effective alternatives available today.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting from TELUS

Create a collaborative environment for increased productivity

Meetings are often required for the success of any project. But with employees dispersed in different offices, cities or countries, planning and executing effective meetings can mean travel time and expenses. But not with Microsoft Office Live Meeting from TELUS. You can meet, collaborate, share ideas, applications or documents – all online, right from your PC. TELUS manages the solution and provides 24/7 live agent support so you can focus on creating a collaborative environment for increased productivity with less cost.

  • Schedule and conduct meetings online to avoid travel time and costs
  • Participate securely in any meeting using your PC and an Internet connection
  • Integrate collaborative tools including Shared Notes, document sharing and white boarding

How much more productive would your meetings be if you could have all the tools to manage content and attendees in one place? With Microsoft Office Live Meeting from TELUS, you can collaborate in real-time using advanced presentation and attendee management tools. Whether you’re conducting a scheduled or ad hoc meeting, you have access to presentation tools including rich text, shapes, fonts and flowcharts. Interactive tools including Shared Notes and the interactive whiteboard ensure that all attendees can view and contribute to key deliverables and action items that come up through the course of the meeting. And you can also employ surveys, calendar invitations, automatic confirmation emails and update emails to track invitees, meeting acceptance and attendance as well as eliciting feedback about meeting quality.

  • Microsoft Office Live Meeting integrates with other Microsoft Office programs to enable employees to initiate ad hoc meetings from any Office application
  • Share applications and documents for effective and efficient collaboration between geographically dispersed teams
  • Scale the solution up to 1250 attendees for one single meeting
  • Integrated video window enables participants to view the presenter using a standard web cam

  • Extend your meeting environment with Polycom CX5000 (optional), giving remote participants a 360-degree view of the conference room
  • Combine Microsoft Office Live Meeting from TELUS with other solutions including TELUS Audio Conferencing for comprehensive collaboration capabilities

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Web Collaboration from TELUS, powered by WebEx

Everything that you do in a face to face meeting and more, you can do in a web meeting. That’s the advantage of having a visual environment. Participants can follow along in real time and provide input as needed. It’s a true collaborative environment without the cost and complexity of bringing people to one location.

TELUS has partnered with WebEx, the world leader in web conferencing functionality, to provide you the most powerful solution available on the market today.

A number of solutions are available:

  • Interactive group meetings
    Allows users to chat, conduct polls, give presentations, demonstrate software, view, annotate, and edit any document electronically and collaboratively, share applications with remote control, and take meeting participants on a Web tour.
  • Training
    Interact with learners, gather instant feedback, administer polls and tests, and conduct online Q&A sessions. Seamlessly engage multiple instructors or panelists for a single class, drill down on important topics with interactive breakout sessions and enable access to applications located on remote lab computers using its Hands-on-Lab functionality.
  • Major Events
    Present your annual results, launch a new product, hold a press conference; they are all easy with the power of WebEx large online events or webinar product. Thus presentation tool allows you to create a dynamic online event with multi-presenter and multi-media capabilities. Also possible to record the event for playback at a later date.

Key Features and Benefits
Anything you can see and do on your computer can be shared with others. Review and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations, whiteboard, solicit feedback, control PCs remotely, broadcast video and share applications

  • Control can be provided to any participant in the meeting to allow real time collaboration
  • Customer service including training and customer support 24/7 to assist with all your meetings
  • Easy to set up. Easy to use. No software to install. Browser based
  • Security is guaranteed through compatibility with firewall technology, pass word protection and encryption of all session content, session content is never stored in our infrastructure
  • Flexible pricing plans. Choose unlimited monthly or pay-per-use subscriptions based on expected use

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Introducing TELUS Web Conference on Demand

TELUS Web Conference on Demand offers cost effective, real time collaboration for geographically dispersed teams. Participants can share and annotate documents, make presentations and whiteboard ideas. Fully integrated with TELUS Audio Conferencing, Web Conference on Demand provides your team with the tools they need for real time collaboration. It’s a true collaborative environment without the cost and complexity of bringing people to one location.

Key Features and Benefits
TELUS Web Conference on Demand is an integrated web and audio conferencing solution that is easy to use, reliable and feature rich. And it is one of the most cost effective web conferencing products available today.

  • Easy to Use
    • End users can access meetings conveniently, using a PC and a standard web browser. All they require is one set of login information to access both the audio and web portions of the conference, simplifying meeting notification and login.
  • Feature Rich
    • Share Applications
    • Share your Desktop
    • Annotate a document
    • Whiteboard ideas
    • Send a chat message to one person or to the whole group
    • Do a web tour
    • Present a slide show
    • Delegate control of the meeting or application enabling real time collaboration.
    • Record your presentation, both audio and web for future playback
    • One set of management controls for web & audio conference
    • Selectable resolution to accommodate any connection speed
    • Playback, enabling you to view and hear recorded web conferences.
  • Highest Security Standards
    • TELUS Web Conference on Demand utilizes secure socket layer technology (SSL) to ensure the safety and security of your web conference.
    • During the meeting moderators can remove unwanted participants with the click of a mouse.
  • Highly Cost Effective
    • Two pricing alternatives are available to meet your usage needs from intermittent to extensive web conferencing usage

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Microsoft Office Live Meeting from TELUS

Flexible Pricing Options – Select from a variety of pricing plans to best meet the needs of your organization.

  • Per Minute – enables easy access to Live Meeting and billing only occurs when you use the service.
  • Named User - provides each chairperson with the ability to host an unlimited number of conferences, all for a flat monthly fee. Each Named user account is non-transferable, allowing you to budget your cost for the forthcoming year upfront.

Live Meeting 2007 is available in Standard or Professional versions:

Edition Standard Professional
Meeting Attendee Capacity 250 1250
Storage Days 90 365
Shared Recordings N/A
Registration N/A
Virtual Breakout Rooms N/A
Advanced Testing & Grading N/A
Pre Meeting Handouts N/A
Customer Branded Live Meeting site N/A
Live Meeting Web Access
End User Support
Account Management (LM Manager)
Reporting
Client (Windows Based)
Two Way VOIP Audio
Integrated Audio Conference Recording
Webcam & RoandTable capable
Application Sharing
In-Meeting File Transfer
Rich media Presentations
Schedule Add-In for Outlook
Personal Recordings
Usage Model Edition Monthly License Fee Per Minute Usage Rate
Per Minute Standard None From $0.19 per minute
with a minimum 12 month contract*
Per Minute Professional None From $0.23 per minute
with a minimum 12 month contract*
Named User Standard From $5.93 per
Named User*
None
Named User Professional From $19.95 per
Named User*
None

*Lower prices available based on contract term & volume.

For Sales Assistance call your TELUS Account Representative or email CSASRsales@telus.com.  
For reservations and application support call 1-877-944-MEET(6338) or email: teleconferencing@telus.com


WebEx

Flexible pricing alternatives to suit your needs:

  • Pay as You Go: for occasional or trial users, set up your TELUS WebEx meeting immediately and pay only for what you use.
  • Business Subscription: the most cost effective solution for regular and frequent users; get unlimited use for a specified number of users.  Both Named Host and Seat License Models are available.

Pay as you Go

Pay as you Go  $0.39 / min

Business Subscription

For regular and frequent users the most cost effective solution is a Business Subscription.   A TELUS WebEx subscription provides unlimited online access to interactive meetings, events, and support or training sessions for a specified number of users or “seats”.  Your own custom branded web site, report generation and robust user management capabilities are also included as standard features in this package.  

Named Host Model - Business Seat License Subscription

The Named Host model enables individual license holders to host an unlimited number of meetings.  TELUS recommends the Named Host model for most customers.  Pricing starts at $81.56/month with lower pricing available based on volume and length of subscription.

For Sales Assistance call your TELUS Account Representative or email CSASRsales@telus.com.  
For reservations and application support call 1-877-944-MEET(6338) or email: teleconferencing@telus.com.


Web Conference on Demand

Pay As You Go

With no up front charges or annual commitments, Pay as You Go per-minute usage model is ideal for companies that have an intermittent need for web conferencing. For existing TELUS audio conferencing customers, prices are similar to TELUS audio conferencing (Conference on Demand) per minute rates.

TELUS Web Conference on Demand: Standard Rate $0.22 / minute with no subscription required.  Call 1-877-944-MEET(6338) to request access.  Agents are available 24 hours a day to take your call.

Subscription rates for Web Conference on Demand are available starting at $0.11 cents per minute.  Lower rates are available based on volume and subscription duration.

For Sales Assistance call your TELUS Account Representative or email CSASRsales@telus.com.  
For reservations and application support call 1-877-944-MEET(6338) or email: teleconferencing@telus.com.

System Requirements:


Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Because Live Meeting is delivered as a fully-managed service, the only system requirements are for the client software that end users and presenters use to access a meeting. Following are the minimum system requirements for the Live Meeting Client (Windows-Based Client):

System Component Minimum Requirement
Display Resolution Required: Super VGA 800x600
Recommended: Super VGA 1024x768 or higher
Note: Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition portrait mode is supported.
Operating System Windows Vista™ operating system, 32-bit (RTM)
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
Computer/Processor Data and Voice: 500-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor, Intel Pentium-compatible
For Webcam video: 1 GHz or higher
For RoundTable™: 1.8 GHz or higher
Memory 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM
Recommended: 512 MB
Install Space 24 MB
Video Memory Video card with 64 MB of RAM (video RAM or VRAM) and Microsoft DirectX® application programming interface generation
For VOIP Sound card, speaker, and computer microphone
For sending Video Webcam or RoundTable device
Bandwidth Requirements for Data Only 56 kbps or better (Recommended: DSL or Cable high speed internet access)
Bandwidth Requirements for Voice and Video   Minimum1 High-Quality1
Voice 50 kbps 80 kbps
Webcam 50 kbps 350 kbps
Roundtable 50 kbps 350 kbps
Other Software Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2000 or later presentation graphics program or Microsoft Office Standard Edition or Professional Edition (which includes PowerPoint software) to upload presentations.
Flash Player version 7 or higher to view Flash content in the meeting.
Windows Media® technologies player, version 9 or 10 (version is checked when the meeting client starts) to view Windows Media content in the meeting.

1 The required and recommended bandwidth speeds are cumulative. For example, if you want to use both data and voice, the recommended bandwidth would be 128+80=208 kbps.

Following are the minimum system requirements for Live Meeting Web Access (Web-Based Client):

System Component Minimum Requirement
Display Resolution 800 × 600 screen resolution required for meeting attendees
1024 × 768 screen resolution required for presenters
800 × 600 screen resolution required for meeting attendees
1024 × 768 screen resolution required for presenters
Browser Operating System JVM
Internet Explorer® 6.0 with SP1 Windows XP SP2 Sun® 1.5.x
Internet Explorer 7 Windows XP SP2 Sun® 1.5.x
Internet Explorer 6.0 with SP1 Windows XP SP1a Microsoft® Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.1
Internet Explorer 6.0 with SP1 Windows 2000 SP4 Microsoft JVM 1.1
Internet Explorer 6.0 with SP1 Windows 98 SE Microsoft JVM 1.1
Internet Explorer 7 Windows Vista (RTM) Sun® 1.5.x
Safari 2.0™ MAC OS® X V10.4 Apple® Java™ 1.4.2
Safari 1.3™ MAC OS® X V10.3 Apple® Java™ 1.4.2
Mozilla 1.7 Solaris 10™ Sun® 1.5.x
Memory 64 MB RAM
Bandwidth Bandwidth 56 Kbps modem (DSL, cable, or better recommended) with Microsoft Internet Explorer® Internet browser or intranet connection
Other Software Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2000 presentation graphics program or later, or Microsoft Office Standard Edition or Professional Edition (which includes PowerPoint software) to upload presentations.
Flash Player version 7 or higher to view Flash content in the meeting.
Flash Player version 9 or higher to view multi-media data content slides.
Windows Media® technologies player, version 9 or 10 (version is checked when the meeting client starts) to view Windows Media content in the meeting.

WebEx

For Windows - Minimum requirements to host or attend fully-interactive meetings using WebEx Meeting Manager for Windows:

  • Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP or Vista
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1,5, 2.0
  • JavaScript and cookies enabled in the browser
  • 56K or faster Internet connection

For Mac - Minimum requirements to host or attend fully-interactive meetings using WebEx Meeting Manager for Mac OS:

  • Mac OS 10.2 (PowerPC) with Firefox 1.5/2.0
  • Mac OS 10.3 (PowerPC) with Safari 1.x, Firefox 1.5/2.0
  • Mac OS 10.4 (PowerPC/Intel) with Safari 2.0, Firefox 1.5/2.0
  • JavaScript and cookies enabled in the browser
  • 56K or faster Internet connection

TELUS Web Conference on Demand

Browsers Supported:

  • Windows (98, NT, ME, 2000, XP)
  • Microsoft IE 5, 5.5 and 6
  • Netscape with Sun 1.4.0 Java JRE
  • Netscape Navigator 7
  • Macintosh* - MAC OSX 10.1, Safari with JRE 1.3

Processor Speed:

  • Minimum 500 Mhz

Connection Speed

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