Web conferencing

Liane Tarouco

Leandro Bertholdo

RNP POP/RS

Introduction

The field of Web conferencing software is growing at a breathtaking pace.

In the summer of 1994 there were exactly two products in this category, both of them rather primitive freeware packages.

Today there are well over 60 commercial and freeware products, many of them quite sophisticated, that support conferencing on the Web in one form or another

Products

VRVS Macromedia Breeze

VRVS

VRVS is a realtime distributed system which provides a scalable communication infrastructure for large collaboration dispersed all over the world.

Different technologies and protocols are supported (and mixed) and allow users to connect their preferred videoconference.

VRVS

Supports – Mbone, – H.323, – SIP, – QuickTime, – Access Grid, JMF and MPEG2.

The system is composed of 1 main server and several reflectors (network servers) spread around the world.

The “Virtual Room Videoconferencing System” (VRVS) has been developed since 1995 in order to provide a low cost, bandwidth- efficient, extensible means for videoconferencing and remote collaboration over networks within the High Energy and Nuclear Physics communities.

VRVS

VRVS• May 2005

• 18,500 Users Registered from 120 Countries, more than 1100 world wide meetings involving more than 4500 users (total 6000 hours) per month

VRVS Support services

Conference management

Testing VRVS

VRVS e MBone Public-Domain or Free Players

– Good “Sense of Presence”: 10 Frames/sec Within

100-200 Kbps or 20-25 Frames/sec within 300-500 Kbps – Multi-Platforms : Linux, Unix’s,

Windows95/98/NT/2000, Macintosh (only with QuickTime)

RATVATVIC QuickTime Player 4.x

CHAT

WhiteBoard

Macromedia - Breeze - Meeting

Sharing

Chat

Participants

Macromedia Breeze Poll

NotesChat

Participants

Macromedia Breeze

Participants

Whiteboard

ChatFile share

Macromedia Breeze - Meeting

Dual processor server Windows server LDAP integration Session recording