Microsoft itself uses the Hosted Live Meeting service to
deliver Webcasts and presentations to thousands of customers on a daily basis. Hosted Live
Meeting is a pay-per-use or per-month service. Hosted Live Meeting conferences provide
the following benefi ts over On-Premises Live Meeting conferences:
?– Support for thousands of attendees Hosted Live Meeting can support up to
2,500 attendees. This obviously allows you to provide conferences for target
audiences much larger than the 250-attendee limit of OCS.
?– Web client option If meeting attendees do not have the Live Meeting client
installed or are unable to install the client, Hosted Live Meeting offers the choice to
use a Web client to attend the meeting.
?– Breakout rooms If you are hosting a large training event, you can set up breakout
rooms for attendees to collaborate within smaller groups.
If you are a smaller business looking for a Web conferencing solution but you have
limited resources, you may want to consider the Hosted Live Meeting offering from Microsoft.
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The initial cost of Hosted Live Meeting is very small because you are paying using a subscription
model and there is no infrastructure to deploy. Most companies that plan to deploy OCS
should probably consider a hybrid approach to Live Meeting. In this approach, you can use
On-Premises Live Meeting for internal conferences and smaller conferences with customers
and federated partners.
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