European-only alternative to Webex.

Webex is the meeting platform of Cisco Systems, Inc., a US company. Binadit Meet is the small, direct alternative: meetings from your Workspace calendar, on our own servers in the Netherlands, with guests joining in the browser without an account.

United States EU-only replacement stack 4 services mapped
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Provider
Webex
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Jurisdiction
United States
Legal regime
CLOUD Act, FISA 702

"EU region" is not sovereignty. Four questions decide it.

Data residency tells you where the bits sit. Sovereignty tells you which legal system can compel access. The answer must hold on all four - or the stack is not sovereign.

Residency

Where is the data physically stored?

Not "in the cloud" - which datacenter, in which country, under which jurisdiction.

Subprocessors

Who else is in your data path?

Every vendor that touches the data: the CDN, the email relay, the error tracker, the analytics pipe.

Jurisdiction

Whose laws can compel disclosure?

A US-headquartered provider falls under FISA 702 and the CLOUD Act - even when the bits sit in Frankfurt.

Key custody

Who actually holds the encryption keys?

If the cloud provider holds both the data and the keys, the data is readable by them - regardless of any DPA.

Fails AWS · Azure · GCP · EU region

Fails on jurisdiction and key custody.

EU bits, US-headquartered parent, US subprocessors in the default path, provider-managed keys.

Passes Binadit managed stack

Passes on all four.

EU-hosted on EU-headquartered infrastructure. Zero US subprocessors in the default path. Customer-held or EU-KMS keys. Listed by name in your Article 28 DPA.

Why teams are exiting Webex

Webex is often part of a larger Cisco contract, which is why its jurisdiction was rarely a decision anybody took on its own. Webex is a service of Cisco Systems, Inc., a US company, so using it is a transfer of personal data to the United States. That is lawful today on the strength of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or of standard contractual clauses, and both lean on the same question: whether US law protects the data of Europeans well enough. The Court of Justice of the EU has answered no twice, and an appeal against the current framework is pending there. Separately, the US CLOUD Act obliges a US provider to produce data under its control wherever it is stored, so a European data region does not settle it. With Binadit Workspace there is no transfer to a third country, so there is nothing to monitor.

Webex, and what replaces it in Binadit Workspace

Binadit Meet is the meeting part of Binadit Workspace. It does one thing: video meetings that start from your calendar and that anybody can join in a browser.

Scheduled meetings

What we run instead
Binadit Meet: start a meeting from your calendar or with one click. The link goes into the calendar invitation automatically.
Engineering note
Only a Workspace account can start a meeting. Guests wait until you arrive.

Guests from outside your company

What we run instead
Guests join in the browser, without an account and without installing anything.
Engineering note
Available in the 24 official languages of the EU.

Where the meeting runs

What we run instead
On our own servers in the Netherlands, based on the open source Jitsi.
Engineering note
Meet never sees your password: you sign in through your own mail server.

Webex Calling, Webinars and room devices

What we run instead
Not replaced.
Engineering note
Meet is video meetings. If you depend on telephony, large webinars or room hardware, tell us before you decide.

How we migrate off Webex

There is nothing to copy out of Webex. Moving means that new meetings start somewhere else.

  1. Before the move

    Workspace is set up for your domain

    Meet and Book are part of Binadit Workspace and use the same login as your mail and calendar. We set up the accounts, and move your mail first if it is still somewhere else.

  2. Side by side

    New appointments start in Workspace

    New invitations carry a Meet link. What is already planned in Webex stays there until it has taken place.

  3. Switch day

    The old subscription ends

    Recurring meetings get a new invitation, links on your website and in mail signatures are replaced, and you cancel what you no longer need.

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Frequently asked questions

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Is Webex GDPR-compliant?
It can be used lawfully today. Webex is run by a US company, so using it is a transfer of personal data to the United States, which rests on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses. That is as durable as those instruments: the Court of Justice of the EU struck down both earlier frameworks, and an appeal against the current one is pending there. Where the data is stored does not change which law the provider answers to.
Does Meet do everything Webex does?
No, and it does not try to. Meet covers video meetings: you start one from your calendar or with one click, and guests join in the browser. If you depend on something specific, such as telephony or large webinars, tell us before you decide.
Do guests need an account or an app?
No. Whoever receives the link joins in the browser, without an account and without installing anything. Only starting a meeting needs a Workspace account.
Is Binadit Workspace only this one product?
No. One login covers mail, calendar and contacts, Drive for your files, Receive for getting files from outsiders safely, Office for documents in the browser, Meet for video meetings and Book for appointments. Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands that Binadit operates itself.
What does Binadit Workspace cost?
Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.
Is Binadit ISO 27001 or NEN 7510 certified?
The data centre we host in is ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified. Binadit itself, as a company, does not hold these certifications. If your own certification requires a certified supplier rather than a certified data centre, tell us before you decide, so you can check that with your auditor first.

Binadit Workspace is more than this one piece

Mail, calendar, files, documents, meetings and scheduling work together and share one login. These are the other pieces.

Plan your exit from Webex.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.

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