Meeting Central® Features
Conference Controls
Conference Controls provide the Host complete control over all aspects of the web conference. Much like traditional conference rooms and teleconferencing, Meeting Central ™ supports a hierarchy: hosts, presenters and participants. Participants need only sit back and relax. Presenters have full use of the Share menu (i.e., they can share presentations and documents, etc.), but they cannot change attributes of the conference room (i.e., enable/disable/change audio, video), promote, demote and expel users. Only the host, or hosts, have these rights. It's easy for the host, just right click on any user (or object), and get a short list of settings.
- Promote users (to presenter or host)
- Demote users
- Expel users
- Manage audio and video
- Manage text conferencing (all users, host/presenters only, specific users)
- Open or close entry (to scheduled conferences)
PowerPoint presentation
To share your PowerPoint presentation, go the "Share" pull-down menu and select "PowerPoint Presentation." You can do this at anytime, there is no need to pre-stage or previously up-load your presentations. When you Share a PowerPoint presentation, it is compressed at the Presenter's PC, then dynamically sent to the server, and then all participants. The presentation is cached at the participant, so the presenter can change slides instantly. When going back and forth often, there is also a bandwidth conservation benefit, as only the page change commands go over the Internet.
Share a Document
To share a document, go to the Share menu and select "Document." You can share Microsoft Word, Excel and virtually any usable document on your PC. Document sharing works just like PowerPoint sharing, once you "Share" the document, it is dynamically sent to the server and then all participants. The presenter can flip through pages instantly, and even pages with rich text, graphics and images display nice and clean.
- Microsoft Word, Excel
- Plus virtually any usable document
- Graphics, text and images
- Presenter can change pages instantly
- You can share a document anytime
- You can even share multiple documents
Application Sharing
Share any application by going to the "Share" pull-down menu and selecting Application. You will be prompted to select from a list of applications already running on your PC, simply click on the one you want to share. To stop sharing, just click on "Stop Sharing" in the upper right-hand corner.
*Note the lasso around the application being shared;
and the Stop Sharing button on the upper-right.
- Share any application
- The presenter and all participants view the application being shared (not just two parties)
- If desired, the presenter can even allow remote users keyboard and mouse input
- You can share an application even while sharing other documents and conducting a multiparty audio and video conference
Web Page Viewing
Select Share, Web Browser, then Meeting Central will launch your browser and immediate start "sharing" it with all your participants. Everyone will see the same browser display as you do. You can use this feature to show web sites, visit web pages and a wide variety of co-browsing applications. It sure beats trying to say a long complicated URL over the phone, or trying to explain where to click to go next!
- Easy to start
- Fast, real-time response! The desktop compression and real-time engine has been used in this application for years. It's just like looking over somebody's shoulder
- Multiparty. You and all your participants see the desktop being shared
- If desired, participants can request, or you can grant remote control
Remote Control
You can easily request or grant remote control of any Application, or Desktop being shared. You can right click on a user, and see the options, or just click on the Remote Control icon (two PC's). This icon appears on the toolbar of the item being shared. If allowed, the "remote" user has keyboard and mouse control over the remote PC (note: the remote user can override). If the web conference has more than two participants, all users see the remote control session. Stopping the session is easy: either the host, or user sharing their Application or Desktop just click the "Stop Sharing" button on the upper-right.
Most importantly, the entire remote control session sends its traffic via Meeting Central server. Since this server is at a fixed IP address, and uses port 80 and http, it achieves high levels of proxy and firewall compatibility, so you can provide PC remote control for remote users, customers and business partners.
- Easy to start
- You can grant, or users can request remote control
- Fast, real-time response! The desktop compression and real-time routing engine has been a key part of e/pop software for years. It's just like looking over somebody's shoulder
- Multiparty. You and all your participants see the desktop or application being shared
- Firewall and proxy friendly, all traffic goes via the e/pop Web Conferencing Server (on a fixed address)
WhiteBoard
The presenter can Share a Whiteboard. Anybody with annotation privileges can participate in a white board session. The host can give anyone annotation privileges to join in. All viewers see updates to the white board in real-time.
- Cut, copy paste any item on the white board
- Set color, width, opacity and other properties of any (applicable) item on the white board
- Text edit, rotate, resize, etc.
- Line tool
- Pen tool
- Arrow tool
- Shape tool
- And more!
Multiparty Video
Meeting Central Web Conferencing includes seamlessly integrated, full-featured, multiparty video. The host can manage all aspects of the video session, including size, quality (lo, med, hi) and frame rate (1-30 fps), plus the ability to change the settings at any end-point in real-time! Nowhere are the strengths of Meeting Central real-time technology more visually stunning than in a multiparty video conference while sharing multiple documents and presentations.
- This is not point to point, this is multiparty video conferencing
- H263 and MPEG4 industry standard codecs, plus high-speed proprietary codec
- Host can manage all end-point (video origination) settings (size, quality & fps)
- Host can allow participants to chose to watch video, or 'show' (force all to watch)
- Select video conferencing only layout or ...
- If allowed, use dockable tabs to arrange video dialog box(es) to your viewing preference