The Conference Service enables the realisation of conferences, workshops or seminars in a distributed fashion. This service interconnects a given set of lecture rooms and creates a unique virtual auditorium where participants can interact with each other despite their physical distance. Definitively this is achieved by the CSCW multimedia application supporting the conference. However, a distributed conference is a complex event, and hence a complex infrastructure is necessary to keep up the illusion of a Virtual Lecture room. Thus, it is structurally conceived to support the full variety of interactions among users during a conference.
Events become scaleable.
NICE- 20 sites across Europe and Canada were seamlessly interconnected for one week. It is used to provide audio and video across the Internet. MBone refers both to a multicast capable network and to specific application tools for audio, video, application and data sharing support. MBone users suffer the low performance of the present Internet. NICE exploited MBone in order to extend the potential audience of the Summer School ABC'96.