QUESTnet 2014

How Cloud Collaboration is

changing the way Universities work

Brett Looney

What is Collaboration?

Unified Communications

IP Telephony

Collaboration

And Cloud?

Traditionally

Hosted on premise

Maintained by the

customer

Experts in house

Upgrade to get new features

Buy new licences

Cloud

We run the whole thing as a service

Customers can grow

(and shrink!) as they need to

So what does it do for me?

Broadcast lectures

Internal or external viewers

Store and play later

Interactive lectures

Multiple lecturers in different locations

Student Interaction

Video Storage

Automatic encoding for different

devices / bandwidth

Automatic speaker

identification

Annotation - Which means

search

Analytics

From where, when, etc.

Who watches the recordings

Who watches the live stream

Internal faculty usage

Cut travel costs

Link multiple campuses

Research collaboration

Example - YouthCare

Brings together teams for training

From any locations

WiFi, 3G / 4G

Home and office

What Else?

Room based Telepresence

Better desktop

experience

Both safe for

executives

What Else?

Instant Messaging

Internal

External

What Else?

Presence

Could be linked to

RTLS

Come see my other

talk about this

The Future?

WebRTC

Video and audio in your

browser

No plugin required

Unless you’re using Internet

Explorer

But why are you using IE anyways?

XMPP (chat room) remote control

Support your

infrastructure by chatting

with it

Nice way of doing

automation

Not so far-fetched

Already used in some networking equipment

Shoulder-to-shoulder augmented collaboration

Questions?