The multi-media communication management system comprises a controller
that interfaces with a plurality of communication space stations and with
one or more communication medium service providers. The controller
provides for multicasting or real time voice communications to selected
recipients. To provide such multicasting, the controller receives a
recipient list of subscribers to include in the multicast session. The
controller identifies a communication space station serving a subscriber
device associated with each recipient and invites such communication
space station to the multicast session. If a recipient's subscriber
device is not served by a communication space station, the multicast
message is packaged as an audio file and sent to the recipient by e-mail.