[graap-wg] possibility of H.323 conferencing

[Karl Czajkowski]

Carl Kesselman at USC/ISI has generously offered to let GRAAP-WG use
their H.323 "MCU" which is basically a central controller to allow
multi-way video and audio conferencing, including telephone bridging
(by dialing a number in Los Angeles).  He thinks it can host at least
16 participants, though I am not sure at what point it becomes silly
to try to use video. :-)

We would need to get a few willing experimentalists to try to test out
the waters before actually scheduling a GRAAP-WG working session on
it.  I am trying to guage interest and I will then coordinate w/
people in his group to find out how we can test and use it without
undue load on his staff.

Are there GRAAP-WG participants willing to experiment with a software
or hardware H.323 client on their end at possibly strange morning or
evening hours?  I will test gnomemeeting software on Linux from here,
and standalone or PC-based Polycom video conferencing should also work
fine.  I will only be trying the audio capability at first, but those
with video capability should be able to see one another too.

I think there is a registration/manager process to associate H.323
client IP addresses w/ sessions or "rooms", so it requires a little
more coordination than dialing a single remote peer.


karl

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Karl Czajkowski
karlcz at univa.com