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- The four NRENs that signaled their interest would represent an aggregated demand that goes a way above the EU tendering limitation. They reported about 85 institutions and 73k end-users in total.
- The demand above would indicate the purchase of 1500-3000 Vidyo licenses while GÉANT can only buy about 500 licenses without tendering procurement per year. Tendering is inevitable!
Conclusions
- The specific Vidyo/CERN/GÉANT service deal is not favorable by most of the NRENs as is. It will only be provided to SWITCH.
- The presented model is not salable without tendering procurement so it cannot be safely offered to other NRENs.
- It is not recommend to make it available via the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue as NRENs could easily run into scalability and other national legal issues.
- Taking the level of demand that the few positive answers represent, it is recommended to GÉANT to look into other models to satisfy the community needs for hosted/un-hosted video conferencing services.
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