8×8 Raises the Bar with New Secure Video Meeting Solution; Oracle Cloud – AiThority

Jitsi.org Publishes Specification for Secure Video Meetings with True End-to-End Encryption; Now Open for Public Comment by Open-sourceDeveloper Community

88, Inc., a leading integrated cloud communications platform, announced the launch of 88 Video MeetingsPro. The solution is powered byJitsi, an open source community for secure video meetings technology sponsored by 88. The company also announced that Jitsi.org and 88 video meetings solutions will run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which offers optimized cloud security and performance, perfect for workloads like video meetings. In a separate event, the Jitsi community published a specification for true end-to-end encrypted WebRTC-based video meetings that is now open for public comment.

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Secure video meetings are a critical part of the day-to-day work of everyone around the world, stated Vik Verma, CEO of 88, Inc. Our Video Meetings, powered by Jitsi open-source technology, are designed from the ground up with security and privacy in mind to give peace of mind so public and private organizations of every size can confidently use them to conduct confidential business meetings. This is true for all of our video meeting products, both paid and free. We collaborated with Oracle to further enhance our strong product and technology platform with Oracle Clouds top-tier security, performance and affordability. We are looking forward to further scaling our global reach with the Oracle go-to-market team.

88, a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), also announced today that its 88 video meetings solutions, Powered by Oracle Cloud, will be available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers an intuitive user interface to browse and search for available applications and services, as well as user ratings and reviews to help customers determine the best business solutions for their organization.

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Oracle Cloud delivers tremendous price-performance for resource-intensive applications like video meetings. As the world redefines working from home, video meetings are one of our fastest-growing workloads, and we are excited to have 88 and the Jitsi open-source community on our cloud infrastructure platform, said Vinay Kumar, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle.

Priced at $9.99 per user per month after a 30-day free trial, 88 Video MeetingsPro includes password-protected and randomly named meetings, real-time closed-captioning with post-call transcription, 60 days of cloud storage for meetings recordings, and the ability to easily secure authorized attendees through dial out features. More capabilities will be added, and 88 Video MeetingsPro is available today at88.comvia self-serve e-commerce.

The new solution is in addition to the currently available88 Video MeetingsFree, which is athttps://88.vc, and includes unlimited usage and international dial-in numbers in more than 55 countries.

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88 is the main contributor to theJitsi.orgopen-source solution, and the standalone and integrated versions of 88 Video Meetings are powered by Jitsi. The Jitsi.org code has been hardened with over a million downloads and is embedded in applications like banking video conferencing, education as a service platforms, and home security applications globally. 88 Video Meetings utilizes the WebRTC standard which enables attendees to instantly join meetings without any downloads or plugins.

88 Video Meetings is also packaged with88 X Seriesmeeting the needs of businesses with a mobile and remote workforce by providing a highly reliable and resilient solution across desktop and mobile devices for voice, video conferencing, chat,contact center, APIs and advanced analytics built on an open cloud technology platform. This allows companies to rapidly unify a distributed workforce and enable flexible workstyles. It is also offered with88 Express, which is for small organizations and teams that require a complete, preconfigured business phone system with a dedicated business number, video meetings and messaging in a single desktop and mobile application.

88 will host a webcast on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET with Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman of Constellation Research, and Emil Ivov, Ph.D., Founder of the Jitsi.org open-source project and the head of 88 Video Collaboration, to discuss 88 video meetings solutions, the importance of open-source video security for all, and why todays encryption and upcoming advanced capabilities are critical for highly-sensitive information and meetings.

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