VC Services information - Switzerland, SWITCH

Information about VC resources and services from SWITCH:

Type of service
H.323 (IP)
H.320 (ISDN)
Breeze
Marratech
General usage policy
Service available for free for people from the Swiss academic and higher education and research community,
Profit oriented service possible: yes
GDS connection
Available
GDS prefix: 0041
Offical site for SWITCH videoconference services
http://econf.switch.ch
Languages: English
Contact points
Technical contact:
Fabio Vena
E-mail: vena@switch.ch
Helpdesk
E-mail: econf-helpdesk@switch.ch
Tel: +41 44 2681501,
web: http://econf.switch.ch/

MCU
Polycom MGC-100 (H.323/H.320, 24 ports)
Gatekeeper
Radvision ECS for Swiss national gatekeeper,
GnuGK for GDS/firewall traversal
Clients
Software: Polycom PVX, VCON vPoint, eConf, NetMeeting, ohphone X, gnomemeeting
Hardware: Polycom ViaVideo, Polycom ViewStation SP/EX/VSX7000, VCON ViGO, Tandberg 1000, Sony PCS-TL50
Collaboration Service
Breeze Server, Marratech Server

Directories - access restricted GDS directory
MCU reservation - access restricted MCU reservation system
% of customers/users multicast enabled -
the SWITCH backbone is multicast enabled and approximately 10% of the customers have implemented on their premises
Quality of Service -
No QoS in the backbone because of overprovisioning. Also no institution has implemented QoS yet, allthough it would be advisable sometimes. SWITCH is actively participating in European activities on PERT (http://www.switch.ch/network/performance/)
% of your customers who have the appropriate bandwidth needed for high-quality VC -
approximately 80%