# Webex

> Webex is the collaboration platform born from one of the web's first conferencing companies and now run by Cisco. It bundles meetings, calling, messaging, webinars, contact center, and a line of conference-room hardware into a single suite, layered with AI for transcription, real-time translation across dozens of languages, and agent assistance. It serves enterprises, governments, schools, and hospitals that need secure, large-scale communication for distributed teams.

- **Founded:** 1995
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Subrah Iyar (Co-founder & former CEO), Min Zhu (Co-founder & former President/CTO)
- **Team size:** ~1,400 employees attributed to the Webex unit
- **Products:** Webex Meetings, Webex Suite, Webex Calling, Webex Contact Center, Webex Devices
- **Notable:** One of the first commercial web-conferencing platforms, launched in the late 1990s., NASDAQ IPO in July 2000 during the dot-com boom., Acquired by Cisco for $3.2 billion in 2007 - a landmark enterprise software deal.

## Products & services

- **Webex Meetings** — Cloud video conferencing with HD video, screen sharing, recording, live transcription, and real-time translation across 50+ languages.
- **Webex Suite** — A single bundle combining meetings, messaging, calling, webinars, polling, and whiteboarding for end-to-end team collaboration.
- **Webex Calling** — Cloud-based enterprise phone system (UCaaS) that replaces legacy PBX hardware with a global calling platform.
- **Webex Contact Center** — Cloud contact center (CCaaS) with AI-powered virtual agents, agent assist, quality management, and customer journey automation.
- **Webex Devices** — Room kits, desk devices, boards, and cameras designed for hybrid meeting rooms, with AI framing and noise removal.
- **Webex AI Assistant** — AI layer that delivers meeting summaries, message rewrites, real-time translation, and conversational IT administration via Control Hub.
- **Webex Events & Webinars** — Tools for hosting large-scale virtual and hybrid events with registration, interactive Q&A, polls, and analytics.
- **Webex Control Hub** — Unified management console for provisioning, security, analytics, and device management across the entire Webex estate.
- **Webex Developer Platform** — APIs, SDKs, bots, and embedded app frameworks for building on and integrating with Webex.

## Achievements

- One of the first commercial web-conferencing platforms, launched in the late 1990s.
- NASDAQ IPO in July 2000 during the dot-com boom.
- Acquired by Cisco for $3.2 billion in 2007 - a landmark enterprise software deal.
- Scaled to hundreds of millions of monthly meeting participants during the shift to remote work.
- Pioneered real-time meeting translation across 50+ languages.
- Launched AI Assistant across Suite, Devices, and Contact Center.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Cisco unveiled advanced AI-powered Webex Contact Center solutions and new industry integrations.
- **2026-01** — Webex AI Quality Management planned for general availability in Q1 2026; AI billing moves to per-second metering across 52 languages.
- **2026-01** — Support for multi-agent collaboration via agent-to-agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) begins rolling out, letting Webex AI Agents work with third-party agents.

## Links

- Website: https://webex.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/webex
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/webex
- GitHub: https://github.com/webex
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/webex
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/webex/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webex

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Last updated: 2026-06-01