Global Crossing to Host Virtual Trade Show with ON24 to Showcase Collaboration Services

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a global IP solutions provider, and ON24, Inc., provider of virtual events, webcasting and virtual environments, are jointly working to enhance the videoconferencing experience Global Crossing offers its customers, which now includes highly scalable and feature-rich, on-demand video-streaming. Global Crossing is using ON24′s industry-leading Webcast Center platform and Virtual Show solution in support of its suite of videoconferencing collaboration services to offer customers an interactive tool reaching audiences of thousands worldwide.  Customers can leverage Global Crossing’s offer to deliver a single online video platform that combines real-time, interactive and community-building capabilities of the social web with online content creation, analytics, and control. “Our customers are demanding a cutting-edge, end-to-end video experience worldwide,” said Debra Swann, vice...

Delivers customers immersive, high-quality, virtual meetings with Teliris Global Crossing, a global IP solutions provider, announced launching of immersive telepresence solution and cutting edge collaboration tools for high-quality virtual meetings with Teliris, an innovative leader in immersive telepresence meetings. Global Crossing Telepresence with Teliris allows customers around the world to experience one of the most life-like virtual meeting environments.  Telepresence is an expansion of Global Crossing’s fully managed high-quality video collaboration service that brings geographically dispersed people and their ideas together more efficiently.  Through these innovative collaboration tools, customers will experience enhanced decision-making, reduced travel costs, lower carbon footprints and increased productivity. “Our telepresence offer represents a milestone in our collaboration portfolio,” said Dave Carey, Global Crossing’s chief marketing officer. ...

Frost & Sullivan announced that ON24 has received the 2009 Global Market Leadership Award, in virtual events. In a recent market report, Frost & Sullivan praised ON24 for achieving the market leader position in the global virtual events market in 2008. According to the report, ON24 offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive virtual event solutions, with a great deal of scalability and reliability, as well as a broad product portfolio, which includes self-service and assisted options. The Market Leadership Award is given to the company that has exhibited market leadership through the successful implementation of a defined market strategy. “As the recipient, ON24 has displayed excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market...

AreaTradeShows.com announced the launch of its free virtual vendor trade show booth or virtual show event space on its Virtual Trade Show Network Resource to all industry and industry sales professionals. Free vendor trade show booth on AreaTradeShows.com includes: One (1) virtual trade show booth includes: logo – category title – 25 word introduction – link to your web site (or Sales E-Packet – Virtual Trade Show Sales Booth), Email Address, Phone Number, Live Chat, Video and can be connected to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs and more! Free virtual trade show booth receives virtual city trade show floor placement, city floor map placement, and city vendor booth search listing on AreaTradeShows.com. For more information please visit...

ON24, an industry leader in webcasting, entered the virtual event space last year. They are utilizing their extensive experience to great effect in the exhibit space, having launched their Virtual Show platform to take advantage of existing resources and propel them to the forefront of the comprehensive virtual event industry. Their numbers for the past year show great promise. They have delivered about 40 virtual shows in the first quarter of 2009, and they expect to produce up to 200 by year’s end. ON24’s webcasting expertise has allowed them to make the transition to virtual shows seamlessly. ON24’s Denise Persson explains it this way: “The main difference between a virtual show and a webcasting program is that you have more...