VC Services information - Portugal, FCCN
Information about VC resources and services from FCCN:
Basic information
- Type of service
H.323 (IP)
- General usage policy
Free for people from the academic and higher education community,
Profit oriented service possible: no
- GDS connection
Available
GDS prefix: 00351
- Offical site for FCCN videoconference services
http://www.fccn.pt/video-conferencia
Languages: Portuguese
- Contact information:
servico-videoconferencia@fccn.pt
wg-multimedia@fccn.pt
Technical responsible person:
Rui Ribeiro
Tel: +351 21 8440100
Problem reporting:
servico-videoconferencia@fccn.pt
Resources
- MCU
First Visual Comunications - Conference Server (25 * 768kbps) - Gatekeeper
Cisco MCM - Gateway
Not available - Clients
PictureTel 980, Polycom Viestation FX, Aethra Star, Aethra Gold - Prefered the hardware based clients to the software based clients
- Tested - NetMeeting, Mirial
Middleware, network
- Streaming of videoconferences
Users can individualy use streaming functionalities of endpoints deployed.
Central support is not yet available. - Recording of videoconferences
No central support for automatic archiving (planned). - % of customers/users multicast enabled
The backbone network is multicast enabled, rarely used.
Employment and Services
- Services -
Multipoint Control Unit (MCU)
Hardware videoconference station
Free try-out
Future plans
Most of the have already started:
- Integration of SIP and H.323 protocols
- Global videoconference room booking system for member institutions
- NAT/Firewalls transversal through Proxy
- Directories / H.350