Google and Cisco have announced a directional interoperability agreement that will allow meetings on their respective platforms to launch on each other’s devices.
This means Google Meet meetings can be started on Cisco Webex hardware, while Webex meetings can be started on Google Meet-certified hardware.
The partnership is designed to help businesses that use more than one collaboration platform or frequently have to use a different platform when speaking to partners’ employees.
Snorre Kjesbu, General Manager of Webex Devices at Cisco, said in a blog post:
Collaboration tools must enable productivity; not deter it with the friction of silos.
“This is precisely why today we’re unveiling interoperability between Google Workspace and Webex”
“Together we’re easing this burden for our joint customers. People can now natively join Google Meet video calls from Webex Devices and in reverse, Webex meetings from Google Meet video hardware.”
The partnership is designed to make during a meeting from the other’s hardware as seamless as possible.
Webex users will see the green Webex One Button to Push prompt flash up next to a Google Meet logo when the meeting approaches, bypassing the need to input meeting IDs or passwords.
On Google devices, the meeting will be displayed alongside the message “via Webex by Webex”, with the user just needing to tap the button. Ad-hoc Webex meetings can be joined by tapping ‘find a meeting’ and entering the relevant meeting code.
