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About Connect 6 (Breeze Meeting)

Adobe Acrobat Connect 6 (fomerly Breeze Meeting) is a web conferencing application designed to facilitate real-time communication, collaboration, and teaching and learning over the web. It can be used for web conferences between small groups of people or it can be used for webcasting events to large audiences. Connect meetings occur in online meeting rooms, which contain all of the necessary tools for communication and collaboration. Connect meeting rooms can also be customized to fit your needs. With Connect, you can:

Communicate by broadcasting audio and video or by text chat,
Gather feedback from participants through polling,
Display PowerPoint presentations and other content such as audio, video and graphics, or display your desktop or an open application on your computer,
Share files with other participants,
Use a whiteboard to collaborate with text or drawing,
Record the meeting and allow others to view it at a later time.

Adobe Connect Meeting Simulation

Requirements
To participate in a Connect meeting, you need:

An Internet connction (Broadband or higher connection speed)
A supported operating system and web browser.
Macromedia Flash player 6.0.79 or later as a browser plug-in.
Connect Meeting Add-in
Ports 80, 443 and 1935 must be open on the routers and firewall.
Optional equipment for broadcasting audio and video (i.e. web camera, headset with microphone or external microphone and speakers)

Please see Connect 6 Requirements for more detailed requirement information.

Since Connect uses the Flash plug-in, both Mac and PC users can host or participate in Connect meetings.

Get Connect
A METNET Internet account is required to create a meeting. Please see Get Connect for additional information.