Web conferencing employs the Internet to allow users to collaborate with one another using their PCs. Using web conferencing, meeting participants can share presentations and other contents of their PC desktop. Web conferencing can be particularly effective for applications such as salesforce training or presentations to large, dispersed groups. Web conferencing usually requires only a computer with an Internet browser and an Internet connection of 56kbps or above. Web conferencing may also offer several other options such as web-based chat, tools to annotate presentations, streaming audio and video, and other tools.

Web conferencing as a technology is highly complementary to both video and voice conferencing. Web conferences are nearly always accompanied by voice or video conferences. Web conferencing can also be an ideal supplement to a video conference for participants who do not have access to a video endpoint.

An optional feature of TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS), TANDBERG See&Share is a secure, easy-to-use data conferencing solution that allows meeting participants to:

• Connect effortlessly and quickly
• Share their desktops and presentation instantly
• Collaborate on their desktop
• Annotate and write over applications
• Include participants from any remote location
• Keep their data secure
• Highlight parts of their desktop
• Show snapshot of ongoing video call

Meeting participants can easily add See&Share participants to video conferences by scheduling with TANDBERG Management Suite or TANDBERG Scheduler. Once a conference is booked, TMS and Scheduler generate an e-mail containing a See&Share URL (web-link). Data conferencing participants joining via PC simply click on the URL to join the conference.

When used in combination with TANDBERG DuoVideo, web conference participants and videoconferencing meeting participants can view the same content. The TANDBERG See&Share server software can reside behind a customer's firewall for security. The solution is also firewall-friendly through its use of server port 80.