Overview
With Verizon Web Conferencing, your colleagues and clients can view materials or presentations over the Internet while listening to the meeting on the telephone. All you need is a PC, a phone and a browser.
Service Plans
Verizon offers three Net Conferencing service plans — Reserved, Instant and Advanced.
We have the right level of service for your next small or large event — everything from unattended self-service to a fully outsourced, Verizon-moderated conference. We can even provide you with a unique URL with your own branding so you can schedule and launch Web conferences.
Reserved Net Conference: For larger events
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- You can schedule conferences for a specific date and time or for a series of specific dates and times
- Reserved Net Conference is available on Standard and Premier Audio Conferences
- Customers can reserve meetings either by calling into the Reservations Center or by using Manage My Meetings at least 30 minutes prior to the start time
- For high-visibility events, a Meeting Manager can be available to assist prior to and during the meeting
- All Premier and Standard Audio Conferencing features are available
Instant Net Conference: For small meetings
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- This service is for 100 or fewer participants who do not need help in conducting Web conferences
- Meetings are not reserved
- Employees keep the same meeting number and pass codes so meetings can be scheduled at a moment’s notice
- Leaders must have a Manage My Meetings user name and password to start an Instant Net Conference
Advanced Net Conference
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- This self-serve tool allows leaders to quickly start or schedule a meeting
- Leaders can access from Manage My Meetings
- Platform options are flexible
- Quick first call — no time is needed to create the conference site
- Leaders do reporting
- Virtually all vendor features are available
- You can have multiple subscriptions and can control passwords
- Meeting content remains available over multiple meetings (Microsoft® Live Meeting only)
Vendor Platform Coices and Comparison
Web Tools
| E-Meetings Portal |
Microsoft® Outlook Integration |
Pricing Components |
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The E-Meetings portal provides easy access to:
- Manage My Meetings
- Customer resources:
- Online interactive processing (OLIP) reporting tool
- Demonstrations and training
- Product resources
- Solutions information
- News and events
- Joint events
- Additional key conferencing tools
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This comprehensive tool allows you to:
- Schedule and manage Web conferences through Microsoft Outlook calendar
- Instantly confirm meeting details
- Email ready-to-go invitations to participants
- Send meeting reminders and streamline meeting cancellation
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Pricing is flexible so you can save by:
- Paying on a per-minute basis
- Only paying for the minutes used, with no setup fee or minimum monthly fee
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Features
Training and Support
Verizon offers free Net Conferencing demonstrations and training “Webinars.” And our conferencing experts are always available to help you plan and run your meetings.
Net Replay
Verizon posts a replay of your Web conference on the Internet. Visuals are synchronized to your audio conference.
Operator Hosting
A professional operator hosts your conference.
Flexible Pricing
You can choose pricing based on rate per minute or rate per seat.
Chat
Internet “chat” technology allows leaders and participants to exchange messages during a Web conference.
Net Q&A
Conference presenters and participants can exchange questions and answers via Internet “chat” technology.
Net Q&A Report
This convenient, time-saving feature stores participant questions in a Microsoft Word document so moderators can answer questions later.
Snapshot
Presenters can capture applications, documents and anything else they want to share with participants.
Text
Conference presenters can type their notes online — in full view of all participants.
Print to PDF
This feature prints the conference presentation to a PDF.
File Download
Leaders can download the conference presentation to a file for posting on a Web site at a later time.
Net Polling Report
You can generate a report of responses to polling questions, including the names of the participants, in a concurrent versions system (CVS) file — a useful feature for follow-up training, testing and research.
File Transfer
Leaders can allow participants to download a file.
Web Conference Video
Presenters may use a Webcam to give a one-way video during a Web conference.
E-Scheduling
You can schedule conferences and reserve rooms in real time.
Service Plans Features and Attributes Comparison
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Instant Meeting: |
Advanced Meeting: |
- Only Microsoft Live Meeting can be reserved
- You can schedule meetings for a specific date and time or for a series of dates and times
- Presenters and participants join conferences and manage meetings through the E-Meetings portal
- Verizon Reservationists and Conference Coordinators schedule and organize Web conferences
- Plan combines Verizon Audio and Net Conferencing
- Operator assistance is available to leaders and participants by pressing *0
- Manage My Meetings user name is available, but not required
- Operator Hosting is available
- Recording is available
- Coordinator document / slide upload is available
- Net Conferencing participant lists and polling reports are available from the Conference Center
- Self-service participant and polling reports are available from the Conference Center
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- Service facilitates Microsoft Live Meeting and / or WebEx
- Service is available 24 / 7
- Same meeting number and pass code are used for every conference on the same platform
- Presenters and participants join conferences and manage subscriptions through the E-Meetings portal
- Leaders schedule and organize meetings from the E-Meetings portal
- Verizon Instant Meeting Audio Conferencing is optional
- Customers call separate number for assistance
- Manage My Meetings user name is required
- Operator Hosting is not available
- Microsoft Live Meeting has no Web recording capability
- WebEx can be recorded using DynaMetric Adapter
- Coordinator document / slide upload is not available
- Secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption is available
- The Conference Center cannot provide Net Conferencing participant lists or polling reports
- Self-service participant lists are available from Manage My Meetings for both Microsoft Live Meeting and WebEx
- WebEx users can get polling results from within the console
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- Service facilitates Microsoft Live Meeting and / or WebEx
- Service is available in advance, or on demand through the vendor site
- Conferences are not required to go through the E-Meetings portal, but can
- Leaders and participants can go directly to Microsoft Live Meeting or WebEx site
- Leaders can access Microsoft Live Meeting or WebEx scheduling and organizing pages
- Verizon Instant Meeting Audio Conferencing is optional
- Customers call separate number for assistance
- Manage My Meetings user name is required
- Operator Hosting is not available
- Recording of Microsoft Live Meeting is available
- WebEx can be recorded using DynaMetric Adapter
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