Meetings without Zoom: BigBlueButton, the video calls nobody can switch off

Video calls have become as basic a company need as email. But the familiar services are getting complicated in Russia: Zoom has stopped selling to Russian organisations, paying for a subscription legally is nearly impossible, and the remaining accounts can be cut off any day — the fate of Telegram and WhatsApp showed how fast that happens. All the while your meetings, including finance and HR discussions, pass through servers abroad, where the recordings are stored too.

BigBlueButton is an open-source video-conferencing server installed on your own premises. No limits on meeting length or count, and the video, chat and recordings never leave the company perimeter. For industries with information-security requirements this is the only option that passes.

The project was born in education, and the toolset shows it: an interactive whiteboard everyone can draw on, polls with instant statistics, breakout rooms for small groups, presentation upload and one-click session recording. That makes BigBlueButton equally good for stand-ups, client webinars and corporate training — especially paired with Moodle, where recordings land automatically.

The one thing that needs care is infrastructure: video is sensitive to network quality and server capacity. We size the configuration for your number of concurrent participants, deploy a load-balanced cluster, configure TLS and a TURN server so calls work even from strict corporate networks, and watch call quality 24/7.

Want to see it live? Write to us via the contact page — we will hold a demo meeting right inside BigBlueButton.