HDVIPER
Duration
01/09/07 - 15/10/09
Budget
2.780.060 €
Coordinator
Participants
The mission of HDVIPER is to open up the traditional videoconferencing market and promote Europe’s role as a leading technological partner in videoconferencing. The HDVIPER consortium will design and develop an open and scalable High Definition (HD) videoconferencing platform based on a new application called Snake. The final delivery of the project is to integrate the Snake application with standard products and perform interactive demonstrations.
Elements of innovation and research more relevant
i2CAT’s activity is focused on multiconferences issues. The Snake architecture (based on Web Services) includes a module, who manages video and audio streams as classic MCU, but it supports flows over than 10Mbps. Commercial or pre-commercial solutions do not meet this high quality streams. This module solves this gap.
Keywords
videoconference, MCU (Multipoint Control Unit), HD (High Definition), SOA (Software Oriented Architecture), SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), QoS (Quality of Service).Industrial and/or social benefits resulting from the project
The software and hardware prototype delivered at the project closure will act as a starting-point for launching commercial services. This will enable new companies and organizations to enter the videoconferencing market, which today is monopolized by a few manufacturers.
The HDVIPER platform will give network operators the possibility of offering HD videoconferencing services in an easy way. More actors in the market will lower the cost, improve the services and increase the flexibility for the end users. Providing the requirements specification of the HD videoconferencing platform will lead to more manufacturers producing conformant hardware.
Together with the expansion and improvement of high capacity networks, the HD videoconferencing platform gives tangible benefits and improved efficiency not only to big organizations. Possible advantages are, for example, travel cost savings, shorter decision time in the development value chain, shorter lead time for development of services and products, improved medical security and decision making, shorter time lap between diagnostic, decision and treatment, improved e-learning and distant education.