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Among others, the October 30, 2006 Draft Architecture and Roadmap for
Communications Services identified two goals related to video and
conferencing services. First that the Institute should move towards
video conferencing solutions that support the SIP protocol and second
that we should support "on the fly" conferencing services. This
experiment will evaluate several new products to determine how well
they can meet these goals an make recomendations recommendations on their deployment
as IS&T services.

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• Deployment of a range of video conferencing solutions including:
  • Soft client running on a Windows machine with audio and video
    capabilities in a small room (candidate in N42).
  • Hardware based video phone in an office environment (candidate in
    10-219 with potential additional units in W92 and N42). This will
    include a low-end Grandstream video phones and a high-end Polycom
    V700, if available for testing from Polycom.
  • Hardware base video conferencing system in a medium sided
    conference room (candidate W92-199 - reuse existing hardware).
    (High-end "telepresence" systems will not be evaluated at this
    time.)
• Evaluation of a soft client running on a Macintosh
• Deployment of a conferencing system that supports user initiated,
  "on-the-fly" conferences. The Polycom RMX 2000 has been identified
  as a candidate for testing and evaluation and will be dependent on
  the availability of a loaner unit from Polycom.
• The above will be tested and the following reported:
  • Interoperability between various combinations in both
    point-to-point and multipoint conferences.
  • Interoperability with other components in our SIP infrastructure
    including VoIP phones and gateways.
  • Video and audio quality including the support for H.264 video and
    G.722 wideband audio.
  • Ease of use by end users setting up and using conferences.
• A project notebook will be maintained in a wiki.
• A final report and recommendation based on the above.
• Presentations ?

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• Project management and investigation
  • Negotiate with vendors for hardware/software
  • Set up and configure systems
  • Training and user documentation
  • Collect feedback; focus groups
  • Maintain project notebook
  • Generate report and recommendation
• System support for setting up Polycom MCU
• Site team for coordinating room installations
• Mac tester (~5 hours)

Budget

Room system for N42

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