IP PBX, Asterisk-based PBX, VoIP PBX Phone Systems and Hosted PBX for business

IP PBX Systems

	trixbox
	Pbxware
	Allworx
	Switchvox
	3CX
	Fonality
	pbxnsip
	Sysmaster
	Linksys
	Epygi
	Digium
	Aastra

Asterisk PBX

	Digium Boards
	Sangoma Boards
	Rhino Boards
	Channel Banks
	Asterisk Platforms
	Asterisk High Availability
	Asterisk Voice Prompts
	Echo Cancel Software

IP Phones

	Polycom
	Aastra
	Cisco
	Grandstream
	Linksys
	UTStarcom
	Uniden
	Snom
	D-link

Conference System

	Aastra
	Epygi
	RHUB
	Switchvox
	Sysmaster

Call Center

	Pbxware
	Switchvox
	Fonality
	Allworx

RHUB On-Premise Web Conferencing Appliance delivers Web meetings for:

Sales presentations and product demos
Internal meetings within your networks
Remote support for your customers
Remote training & seminars

Features

HUB web conferencing appliance advantages:

Security -support meetings both behind firewall only and outside firewall and control access for outside meetings
Cost - Start at $995 for one-time purchase
Performance - Unparallel performance for meetings inside your networks
Integration - Simple URL based integration with your website and applications.

RHUB web conferencing appliance unique features:

Support truly interactive meetings between PC and Mac (PPC & Intel) users
The breakthrough non-download view-only function allows any users from any platforms (Linux, Unix, etc.) with a browser to join a meeting within seconds
Features specifically designed for interactive meetings, seminars, remote support and remote access to computers are all bundled in one application. No more payment for separate services is needed.

RHUB 200 Appliance

The RHUB 200 represents a clear breakthrough in price and performance. RHUB has engineered the powerful TurboMeeting 3.0 software not only to operate in a cost effective hardware platform, but also to provide outstanding performance from the platform. The RHUB 200 fits any office with its small footprint and quiet, fan-less operation. The very low power drain keeps your office green, even with 24x7 operation. The automatic update feature keeps your system up-to-date with no intervention by you or your IT staff. The entry level comes with 2 meeting rooms and 10 attendees. The 2 meeting rooms provide for two concurrent meetings. The attendee licenses can be mixed between the meeting rooms by the hosts. Attendees can use either the powerful TurboMeeting Interactive client or the revolutionary new “View Only” client.

TurboMeeting 3.0

TurboMeeting 3.0 (TM 3.0) represents the latest in Web conferencing technology. The powerful Interactive client supports all popular Web conferencing features and is browser independent. Both PC and Macintosh platforms are supported. The unique firewall and antivirus software friendly code of TM 3.0 provides a high level of compatibility among computer users.

The TM 3.0 View-Only option makes Web conferencing truly universal. All an attendee needs is a modern Web browser and the ability to connect to the public Internet. Now, everyone can join a meeting. View-Only requires NO DOWNLOAD of any kind. Attendees who are concerned about downloading software, who are behind restrictive firewalls, or who are on typically unsupported platforms such as Linux desktop can join a meeting. View-Only attendees can see the presenter’s data with the same performance as Interactive attendees.

What is web conferencing?

Web conferencing is to share and/or control computer applications shown on computer screens among a group of people within or cross organizations via the Internet. It is different from video conferencing, which transfers moving images that usually come from cameras. Web conferencing has been widely used for sales presentation, remote support, training, and countless real-time collaborative applications to save time and improve productivity.

Similar technology has been used in remote desktop access tools such as PCAnywhareTM and Microsoft remote desktop, which are commonly used between two computers and limited behind the organization's firewall. Web conferencing emphasizes the collaboration among people from different organizations, which involves more technical challenges than regular desktop sharing tools.

How do I identify a quality web conferencing product?

The basic key technical challenges behind web conferencing includes:

Traversing enterprise firewalls without compromising configuration or security
Quick download and easy one-click installation in just a few seconds
Always-on meetings over unreliable Internet connections from all different meeting attendees

There are many vendors in the market. However, only a few of them have really achieved excellence because of these technical challenges. Being an experienced user, you can quickly tell the product quality by the time required for an attendee to join your meeting, the percentage of your attendees who can successfully join the meeting and the percentage of your attendees who can complete the meeting regardless the quality of their internet connection.

How does RHUB advance technology to deliver a quality product?

RHUB was founded to overcome the above basic key technical challenges. Today, RHUB has over four thousands users around the world, including users from leading banks and government agencies where the network environment is dramatically restricted. With RHUB TurboMeeting 3.0, you can

Host meetings with any users from different organizations around the world regardless their firewall and software installation policy. The only requirement is that the user can browse the Internet.
Have your meeting attendees join your meetings in seconds. For "view-only" attendees where attendees can view but cannot present, no download is required. Joining a meeting is as easy as typing a URL. For interactive meetings where attendees can both view and present, PC attendees need to download just less than 800KB meeting manager and Mac web conferencing attendees download less than 1.3MB. Installation is just one-click.
Complete your meetings regardless of your or your attendees' Internet connection quality. RHUB auto-reconnection technology detects and auto-reconnects any meeting participant in ten seconds.

In addition to responding the above basic technical challenges, RHUB TurboMeeting 3.0 addresses another level of challenges:

Privacy protection by allowing meeting hosts to select a specific application to show to attendees
Cross-platform compliancy by allowing users from all different platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Unix and even iPhone to join meetings
Connect users from two main computer platforms: PC and Mac. Allow them to have fully interactive collaboration

Why should I choose a web conferencing appliance?

Web conferencing solution is delivered in three ways:

Hosted services
Software (on-premise)
Appliance (on-premise)

The above figure shows the pros and cons of different deployment models. Appliance is the model that combines the advantages of hosted service and software only deployment and avoids their shortcomings. Wainhouse Research, the leading market research firm on rich media conferencing solutions, has discovered constantly over years that over half of web conferencing users demand on-premise web conferencing solutions. The top reasons are:

Simple needs
Costs
Strategic competency
Security

When the users were asked why not to deploy on-premise solutions yet, the top reason is:

Lack of skills and resources

Web conference appliance, not the software deployment model, is designed to resolve the above shortcomings. With a Web conferencing appliance, everything needed is built into one single appliance. There is no need for an operation system, database server, web server, separate computer, and software installation, which are typically required for on-premise software deployment.

Why should I choose a RHUB web conferencing appliance?

As you may have found, there are only a few vendors that provides web conferencing appliances. Most of them embed web conferencing function into other applications such as VoIP, video and network security, and treat web conferencing function as an add-on feature. The problems with those products are:

Difficult to use and deploy
Not focused on web conferencing
Very high upfront cost

RHUB focuses only on web conferencing. RHUB web conferencing appliance is:

Very easy to use and deploy. The one-time deployment takes you 20-30 minutes.
Most competent in web conferencing (see the above section about RHUB technology)
Very affordable
IT-maintenance free. Firmware is updated automatically.

What is the ROI from owning a RHUB web conferencing appliance?

To maximize profits, hosted service providers usually make different web conferencing applications into different packages and sell them separately. For example, one leading vendor has different websites for web conferencing, remote support (over $300/month for one user license), seminars, and remote access to computers. The RHUB appliance delivers those functions (that use the same underlying technology) into one appliance. RHUB web conferencing appliance has been used to host meetings for:

Sales presentations and product demos
nternal meetings within your networks
Remote support for your customers
Remote training & seminars
Remote access to your computers in office or home
ngineering collaboration
Any real-time collaboration where desktop sharing is needed

Depending on how you use RHUB appliance in your business, your ROI can be as short as 2 months compared with hosted web services.