Michail, any thoughts on this release on WEBX? Thanks, ART
NTT-ME Selects WebEx Communications to Deliver Interactive Web Meeting
Services in Asia
World's Largest Telecommunications Group to Offer Web Conferencing
Service
Powered By WebEx Neation, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT (NYSE: NTT),
the largest telecommunications company in the world, to provide the
communications infrastructure for NTT-ME's new interactive Web
conferencing service. NTT-ME is a technology consultancy that designs,
builds, operates and maintains multimedia systems for service providers and
enterprise customers. WebEx's switch-based global network supports data,
voice and video communications and allows Internet users, including NTT's
55 million customers, to hold highly interactive Web meetings through a
standard browser. With more than 4,000 corporate customers and
agreements with the world's leading telecommunications companies, WebEx
is the standard for business meetings on the Web.
"WebEx is the only company to develop and deploy a global network
designed for real-time multimedia Web communications," said Shuji Arima,
senior vice president of NTT-ME. "WebEx is a convenient, cost-effective way
to meet with associates and customers around the world. WebEx is ideal for
highly interactive sessions -- the kind of meetings business people all over
the world conduct everyday."
"NTT-ME has always been quick to identify and integrate the breakthrough
technologies that drive business," said Subrah Iyar, chairman and CEO of
WebEx Communications. "With NTT's 55 million customers, this agreement
will give WebEx increased market exposure in Asia. The power of our
communications network has made WebEx the choice of corporations and
telecommunications providers worldwide."
WebEx provides Web-based interactive communications services to
corporations. Departments across the enterprise use WebEx meetings to
save money on travel costs and increase productivity. All of WebEx's services
are built on the WebEx interactive platform and are supported by WebEx's
global communication network, ensuring scalability, reliability and
predictability. Corporations currently use WebEx's interactive
communications services to help increase productivity and efficiency,
differentiate and distinguish products and services, and enhance and
diversify revenues.
"WebEx's switch-based network was designed to meet the communications
demands of the world's telecommunications leaders," Michael LeBlond, vice
president of Telecom Business at WebEx Communications. "NTT-ME and
WebEx have created an offering for Asia's business users that delivers the
best in audio, data and video conferencing. NTT-ME is an ideal partner to
help us support our growing Asian customer base."
About NTT-ME
Founded in 1999 in Tokyo, NTT-ME, a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corporation, offers Total IT Business Solutions, from consulting to
after-sale support. NTT-ME integrates the experience and know-how that
have been garnered by member companies of the NTT Group through its
extensive resources and dedication building numerous large-scale systems
and offers them as solutions that can be easily applied for use by anyone,
from large corporations to small home offices. Specific services include the
ASP service which provides the latest applications for download via the
Internet, solution packages such as Web sites and LAN- or WAN-related
products, the SI service that proposes and builds customized systems,
practical training courses, and special solutions addressing such issues as
user support and security. To create more advanced multimedia environment
and effectively respond to the increasingly diverse needs of clients, NTT-ME
offers its XePhion ultra-high-speed, broadband, next-generation IP network
service utilizing fiber optics. NTT-ME also provides product and service
support for Japanese customers with its leading edge ME Global WAVE
technologies. NTT-ME provides support and maintenance service for clients'
networks, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to ensure that its multimedia
services are operating flawlessly in both business and everyday life. For more
information regarding NTT-ME and WebEx, please call Japan at
+81-3-5956-9602, send email to webex@ntt-me.co.jp, or visit
nttivs.ntt-me.co.jp .
About WebEx Communications, Inc.
Founded in 1996, WebEx Communications, Inc. is the leader in Internet
infrastructure for interactive business communications. WebEx provides
Web-based carrier-class communication services using its
multimedia-switching platform deployed over a global network. WebEx's
services enable end-users to share presentations, documents, applications,
voice, and video spontaneously in a seamless environment. WebEx services
are used across the enterprise in sales, support, training, marketing,
engineering, and various other functions. With its modular framework and
standards-based APIs, WebEx's real-time communications platform is the
"dial-tone" for meetings on the Web. Please call toll free 877-509-3239 or
visit webex.com for more information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking
statements may be identified by use of the terms anticipates, believes,
continue, could, estimates, expects, intends, may, plans, potential, predicts,
should or will, or the negative of those terms or similar expressions. These
forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially from those described in such statements
as a result of these risks and uncertainties. In particular, these forward looking
statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding WebEx's
access to NTT's customers, that WebEx meetings can help any company
decrease costs, improve internal and external communications, increase
productivity and cut development times and that WebEx's global network
infrastructure ensures scalability, reliability and predictability. Factors which
could contribute to risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the
failure of NTT customers to purchase WebEx's services, failures and
interruptions in the software and systems underlying WebEx' services and the
failure of customers to adopt WebEx services, to use them effectively in their
business, and to decrease their other expenses. A fuller discussion of the
risks and uncertainties that could affect WebEx Communications, Inc. are
more fully set forth in WebEx's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including WebEx's Form 10-K filed on April 2, 2001 and Form
10-Q filed on July 30, 2001. WebEx Communications, Inc. assumes no
obligation to update forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
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