
For example, users of Cisco TelePresence Touch 10 - a tablet-size desktop display for video conferencing - only have to press a meeting button and then a join button to attend a prescheduled meeting. The process for joining a Zoom-powered meeting depends on the type of Cisco hardware, Booth said. After installing Connector, people can start using Zoom services. Using Zoom Connectorĭeploying Zoom Connector on Cisco hardware involves a self-service setup though a Zoom web application, said Simon Booth, lead project engineer at Zoom, based in San Jose, Calif. "If Zoom can come in at a lower price than Webex, with similar ease-of-use, they have a chance to win over some of those Cisco customers," Lazar said. The latest integration would position Zoom against Cisco's online meeting software, WebEx. In May, the company announced that Zoom Connector would provide integration with Polycom video room systems. Zoom has positioned itself as a provider of cloud-based video meetings that can run on companies' existing hardware. "This gives Zoom the ability to go to customers with an easier means of connecting their existing video systems." " is growing rapidly, but we haven't seen them all that much yet in the larger enterprise market," said Irwin Lazar, an analyst at Nemertes Research, based in Mokena, Ill. The move, announced last week, is significant because it gets Zoom's cloud-based conferencing service in front of the customer base of one of the largest video infrastructure vendors.
