FILE PHOTO: A visitor uses a mobile phone in front of the Cisco booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc’s video-conferencing app Webex registered a record 324 million attendees in March, with usage more than doubling in the Americas, as the coronavirus-led lockdowns forced businesses to have employees work from home.
Webex and rival meeting platforms from Zoom and Microsoft Corp’s Teams are being used worldwide to host everything from virtual classrooms and business meetings to church services, as people stay at home to restrict the spread of the pandemic.
Zoom’s daily users ballooned to more than 200 million in March from a previous maximum total of 10 million, the company said here on Wednesday. It was, however, not clear if the number was comparable with Cisco’s due to the different ways the companies calculate meeting attendees.
“Webex grew 2.5 times in Americas, four times in Europe…
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