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Since February 2015, GEANT Association Product Management Team (GAPMT) have been working methodically through the necessary steps to deliver such a service to Switch, starting with discussions with Vidyo and CERN on the principle of a tri-party agreement for the supply of a managed Videoconferencing service, using Vidyo licenses hosted on CERN infrastructure.
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The GÉANT project’s WebRTC Task – in conjunction with the open GÉANT Task Force on Web-RTC (TF-WebRTC) – ended up with a set of recommendations for the European research and education community, reported in the Deliverable 12.3 “WebRTC Requirements and R&E Deployment Roadmap”. One of the recommendations is as follows:
“Make the adoption of useful WebRTC services easier by adding them to the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue, with framework agreements where opportune. In particular, make one or more easy to use WebRTC desktop video conferencing services available to all European R&E users through the GÉANT clouds service catalogue, soonest.”
The GÉANT project’s new “Application and Service Delivery Development” team is going to actively look into video conferencing solutions – primarily those supporting the WebRTC protocol and native browser clients – either offered by the NREN community or by commercial partners, out of their own cloud infrastructure or hosted in third-party clouds.
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