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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