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| Technology scout | Topic | Rationale | Result |
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| ICE, STUN and TURN: How WebRTC deals with firewalls and NAT | Addressing NAT and firewall traversal with peer-to-peer WebRTC communication | Investigation into important infrastructure component that could be offered by NRENs | Report: test reportGN4-1-SA8T2 - Tech scout ICE STUN TURN.pdf Demo: Screencast demoing PoC PoC service URL: https://brain.lab.vvc.niif.hu Source code of different components on github: |
| RENdez-Vous: One year of operational experience | Describes experiences of the French nationally deployed WebRTC desktop videoconferencing service | Harvest experience from first national deployment of a native WebRTC desktop videoconferencing service | |
| Distributed RENdez-Vous: An investigation into scale-out Jitsi | Assess possibilities for Jitsi software to scale out to a distributed deployment supporting all of EU R&E | RENdez-Vous would be a possible candidate for a shared EU R&E desktop videoconference system, if the choice is build-your-own. | |
| WebTut | A proof of concept implementation of an online web tutoring service | Possible lower integration cost for in-context communication, possible infrastructure component in NREN infrastructure | FCCN deployment: https://webtut.fccn.pt UNINETT test deployment: https://webrtc.uninett.no/webtut/home Source code of different components on github: https://gitlab.fccn.pt/sa8-webrtc/webtut-frontend/tree/develop |
| Service proposal for a Media API Service | Proposes a service offering high-level, real-time communication building blocks for contextual communication | Possible lower integration cost for in-context communication, possible infrastructure component in NREN infrastructure | |
| Screencast: Stream and record lectures with WebRTC | Investigate recording with WebRTC | Opportunity for simplification of lecture/screencast recording and streaming, new services possible | |
| Unified Communication and WebRTC | Assessment of impact of WebRTC on Unified Communication in R&E | R&E trend is towards UC deployments at every R&E institution | |
| SIP2webrtc gateway | Explore opening the legacy world of SIP for browser-based communication | Address interaction of new technology with installed base |
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