A review of the Scottish MANs' Videoconferencing Network has been undertaken and is part of a wider investigation into video technologies for broadband networks. Two reports have been written and will be published in due course. A project to investigate the issues involved in running a video network based on the ITU-T H.323 standards is being planned with a view to starting in October 1999. The project will result in a service demonstrator being established. As intended at the start of the development the course has now been brought back in house.
Plans are in hand to organise courses for the remainder of the year.
Continued and improved liaison with the community in the form of publications, user groups, regular workshops etc. The last quarter proved to be a busy time with a number of events taking place. It is planned to organise a further conference covering this area in early 2000. Members of the JISC that were present were keen to feed the comments from the meeting back into the JISC committees. Delegates were keen to see more work taking place in the area of security and were pleased to hear that JISC had commissioned work in the area of site security policies.