Do you often have a chat with your friends over the Internet with your habitual instant messenger such as MSN, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ or IRC, etc? However, do you know that you can do the same thing on your LAN in your office or home? Yes, you can, as long as you have a LAN messenger! With a LAN messenger you can chat each other with your friends without an Internet connection as long as you and your friends or colleague on the same LAN. Following is a popular and excellent LAN chatting tool I will recommend to you. That is BigAnt LAN Messenger. Following are the detailed introductions of this LAN messenger. Want to know how powerful and useful it is? Let's go now!

BigAnt LAN Messenger is designed for small and medium enterprise to send instant message by using Office's Local Area Network. Secure, simple and stable! With BigAnt LAN Messenger we can send instant message and offline message. Send file, folder. Send group message. Have voice and video chat. Capture desktop. Send password-protected message and so on. The key functions and advantages of BigAnt LAN Messenger:

BigAnt LAN Messenger is easy to use. With a neat look and familiar interface, there is no leaning curve to use this BigAnt messenger, all our client computers will be connected to IM server that located in our company, regardless we have LAN connection only, or we are connected from internet or via VPN, and even more, our login account and password can be the same as they are in Active Directory/LDAP.

With BigAnt LAN Messenger we can send instant and offline message to contact(s) from anywhere, track our message was read or not yet. All messages will be logged on both client computer and IM server, we can search with query conditions and print our dialog in one click.

BigAnt LAN Messenger allows us to start discussion among participants in real time, invite/remove members at any time. Group discussion can be arranged within Departments, multiple contacts or users selected to create personalized discussion Groups. Also we can keep a record of group discussion and print it out.

With permissions, BigAnt LAN Messenger will display of remote computer's desktop on our screen in a few seconds. Remote session initiator can view or control partner's desktop to give instant assistance by using our own keyboard and mouse. This provides a productive way to assist our BigAnt contacts as long as we can see them on-line.

BigAnt LAN Messenger allows us to broadcast message. Also called BigAnt Bulletin Board, this is useful to notify to hold meetings, announce holiday breaks, send notices to all employees or send to selected groups/users. We can reply and or discuss to the thread in real time.

With the leading edge VoIP technology, Video/voice chat via BigAnt LAN Messenger is clear and smooth. Voice and screen is nicely synchronized, and it takes only approx 5Kbs for the bandwidth usage, and we can switch video size between full screen video and video in a window.

BigAnt LAN Messenger offers easy and fast file transfer and forward, even a folder can be directly exchanged. Just drag and drop the file or folder onto the recipient's name. Or take advantage of BigAnt LAN Messenger exclusive feature "Quick Send" to right click a file and send it from our browser.

Live Chat is a value-added feature of BigAnt LAN Messenger. It can be easily integrated with our company web site, so that our website visitors could be chat with our service people in a chat window on our website, the operators can handle multiple conversations simultaneously.

In addition, BigAnt LAN Messenger provides a free trial for us but many functions of it are disabled. It is standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. BigAnt LAN Messenger does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with most recent variants of Windows. Do you want to have a chat on your LAN freely? Why not download BigAnt LAN Messenger and try it yourself now!

BigAnt is a secure corporate instant messaging system, both instant messaging server and client included.
Set up an instant messaging system for your own company with BigAnt to boost your office productivity. No matter the size of your company, small or large, local or world wide, BigAnt is right for you. A secure corporate instant messaging system, include IM server and client. Instant messaging, voip, video chat and more. Secure instant messaging, file transfer, voip, video chat, web conferencing and more, BigAnt is a total instant messaging solution for enterprise.

Features of BigAnt LAN messenger server:
1.BigAnt LAN messenger encrypts all data transferred on your network.
2.BigAnt LAN messenger server supports import user profile from Active directory and dynamic synchronize with Active Directory;
3.Centralized user management, Role permissions, offline message storing, full control of IM features on networked users.
4.Centralized message logging and archiving on BigAnt LAN messenger server for backup or audit purpose, keep reliable data for your intranet instant messaging system;
5.Configuration for BigAnt LAN messenger will take less than 10 minutes. Effortless maintenance, No learning curve for network users;
Features of BigAnt LAN messenger client:
1. BigAnt LAN messenger client has rich and flexible features for instant messaging, including both of instant and offline messaging, group chat, conference chat and you can view/print conference record at whenever you need, also you can send broadcast message to whole company or selected users;
2. Easily send or forward a file to your colleague through local network, you can even send/forward file by Folder which is a creative feature you can only fins in BigAnt LAN messenger;
3. Another innovative feature Quick Send allows you to send file or entire folder by right clicking it from Windows Explorer;
4. Voice and video chat;
5. BigAnt LAN messenger client can create customized group with existed valid contact list;
6. Optional sound alert for new incoming message, incoming files, user being online, pop-up note for message delivery status.
7. You can easily track all of the message delivery status in BigAnt LAN messenger client control panel, while getting a clear glance of of whether your message has been read by the recipient or not;
8. BigAnt LAN messenger clients can view/search their history message on local PC; system administrator can turn on/off the feature;
9.Apply your company logo and company name on BigAnt LAN messenger client.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $15, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of BigAnt LAN Messenger, you can buy this lan messenger software software.