Video conferencing software - any suggestions?

[kingrob]

My boss needs to chat regularly with co-workers in Durban and Johannesburg, and Skype & Windows Live Messenger does not cut the mustard anymore, cos it only supports one-to-one video conferencing.

I am looking at alternatives at the moment & would love to hear what you are using in your company. I know there are really good pro video conferencing solutions out there, but most of them start at R60000, which is a bit too steep for us at the mo.

Solutions I have tested :

ooVoo - hosted on their servers and takes really long to get going
nefsis - same problem as ooVoo, but a lot of functionality

Solutions that I havent tried yet :

Microsoft Office 2007 Live Meeting

Nice thing about live meeting is that you can purchase server software and host your video conferences from your own site.

Any suggestions, please share.

 

[czc]

Vox had plans to do Video Conferencing. So far skype has been the best thing one on one.

 

[Neoprod]

Nothing helpful, I'm afraid...we use Cisco Telepresence supported by DD.

 

[bdt]

Well there [-]is[/-] was Lync but that's now baked into Skype for Business, that you can apparently as a thing unto itself but is only really worth it on the lowest level. Because you could go the whole hog with Office 365 Business Essentials and get the whole suite on top of S4B for a smidge more (R62,70/m plays 68,40/m).

 

[CHURCHILL]

We tried this the other day: http://www.gotomeeting.com/start

Works well.

 

[froot]

We use Cisco WebEx at work. Works really well, and you can send anyone a meeting invite via email.

 

[Johnatan56]

Pretty sure skype supports group video calls, used it this morning.

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA...group-video-call-in-skype-for-windows-desktop

EDIT: Oh wait, Neoprod necrod a 5 year old thread.

 

[Neoprod]

lol, sorry guys....not sure what I was doing.

 

[Wasabee!]

EDIT: Oh wait, Neoprod necrod a 5 year old thread.

lol, sorry guys....not sure what I was doing.

Michael Jackson also didn't know what he was doing, but that was 12 year olds - not 5 year olds.