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Meeting Exchange Express Edition

Avaya Meeting Exchange Express delivers SIP-based audio conferencing in a package that is simple for midsize businesses and branch offices to deploy, manage, and use. Designed for cost- and value-conscious organizations that use conferencing as an everyday communications tool, Meeting Exchange Express provides smaller businesses with enterprise class conferencing capabilities that were previously suited for large organizations, in a more manageable and affordable solution

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Overview
 

What's New With This Release

Meeting Exchange Express Edition is an addition to the Meeting Exchange conferencing portfolio, which is optimized for mid-market organizations. Building on proven audio conferencing software, the solution contains a streamlined set of added features that are most-used by everyday conferencing customers. Meeting Exchange Express is a software solution that runs in a single server architecture, making it easier for organizations to install, manage and use. With a very competitive price point, Meeting Exchange Express is an ideal choice for small to mid-sized businesses or branch offices.

Business Benefits

  • Cost-effectiveness: Software-based solution and single server architecture, as well as self-service installation and remote serviceability, provide cost savings through reduced time and effort in installing and maintaining.
  • Reduced conferencing expenses: Bringing conferencing in-house allows companies to reduce per-use or recurring fees for outsourced conferencing services. Customers typically realize an ROI in 6–9 months, as well as reducing monthly conferencing expenses by as much as 50%.
  • Increased productivity: Convenient, anytime access to high-value collaboration capability enables businesses to reduce travel, connect dispersed workers, and speed decisions.
  • Practical feature set: Practical features, including those most used by conference participants, make the solution highly effective and simple to use without being complicated by too many "nice to have" features.

FEATURES

  • Reservation-less Conferencing
  • Administrative Features
  • Web Administration Interface
  • Touchtone Conference Commands
  • Sametime Web Conferencing Integration

TECHNICAL

  • Security
  • Reliability and Performance

Resources

PDF Avaya Meeting Exchange® Express Edition (104 KB)

     
Description
     

The solution offers audio conferencing for up to 300 participants. It includes user and moderator capabilities that extend beyond basic PBX-based, meet-me conferencing, and it also offers optional integration for IBM Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, for a complete collaboration solution.

Benefits

  • Cost-effectiveness: Software-based solution and single server architecture, as well as self-service installation and remote serviceability, provide cost savings through reduced time and effort in installing and maintaining.
  • Reduced conferencing expenses: Bringing conferencing in-house allows companies to reduce per-use or recurring fees for outsourced conferencing services. Customers typically realize an ROI in 6–9 months, as well as reducing monthly conferencing expenses by as much as 50%.
  • Increased productivity: Convenient, anytime access to high-value collaboration capability enables businesses to reduce travel, connect dispersed workers, and speed decisions.
  • Practical feature set: Practical features, including those most used by conference participants, make the solution highly effective and simple to use without being complicated by too many "nice to have" features.
     
Features
     

Reservation-less Conferencing

Convenient reservation-less conferencing for up to 300 users per system.

Allows users to hold conferences any time, on demand.

Administrative Features

  • A customizable e-mail template for automatically sending conference details to participants, including date and time, dial-in number, and pass codes.
  • Optional conference settings that can be configured system-wide or by account, such as auto extension of conference duration or capacity, entry and exit tones, name announcements, and music on hold.
  • Enhanced capabilities such as recording and playback, reporting, and XML-based billing.

Enhanced features increase the value of the in-house conferencing solution, letting businesses get the most out of their investment.

Web Administration Interface

Web-based administrator interface for configuring system and accounts:

  • Set up the conferencing system addresses, data retention, directories, blast dial and recording and playback controls
  • Configure conference bridges, maps, and prompts
  • Create and manage user accounts
  • View alarms, logs, call lists, and so on
  • Configure billing output and usage reports

The admin interface makes it simple for system administrators to manage accounts and system settings for optimal user experiences.

Touchtone Conference Commands

Touchtone (DTMF) commands for easy access to conference controls such as mute, lock conference, participant count, conference recording (i.e., press *6 to mute and unmute your own line). A blast dial to multiple participants can also be initiated via touchtone commands. The DTMF key mappings can be re-configured as desired, via the Web-based administration interface.

Access to conference controls increases the effectiveness of virtual meetings, without requiring operator assistance.

Sametime Web Conferencing Integration

Meeting Exchange Express can be integrated with IBM Lotus Sametime, providing integrated audio and Web collaboration capabilities, as well as click-to-conference capability from the Sametime Connect Client.

Increase productivity with convenient access to collaboration tools that are easy to use.

Conference Scheduling

Conferences can be scheduled on the Meeting Exchange Express system using a Web-based end user scheduling interface, or through integration with Microsoft Outlook.

Ensure conference capacity is available when you need it, and easily embed conference access information into a meeting invitation.

Directory Server integration via LDAP

Connecting Meeting Exchange Express directly to the Enterprise directory server allows client account information to be automatically imported for easier bridge and account management.

  • Reduce overhead by removing the need to maintain two separate databases.
  • Easily enable and disable accounts for users on the system, and allow the system to recognize users by their phone numbers, when they dial into the system, simplifying authentication.

Language Localization

Meeting Exchange Express can be localized with the following languages:

  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • German

Simplify use of the system worldwide, by offering in-language localization.


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