Evaluating web conference_tools
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The document evaluates different web conferencing tools. It discusses what web conferencing is, how the technology works, examples of tools, key features like screen sharing and chat. The document also covers standards, history of tools from the 1990s onward, cloud-based options like WebRTC, advantages like flexibility and scalability, and areas for improvement like privacy and security. It concludes with information about the presentation.
![Standards
● Web conferencing technologies are not standardized, which has reduced
interoperability and transparency and increased platform dependence,
security issues, cost and market segmentation. In 2003, the IETF
established a working group to establish a standard for web conferencing,
called "Centralized Conferencing (xcon)". This include(s)
● A binary floor control protocol. Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)[6]
published as RFC 4582
●
A mechanism for membership and authorization control
●
A mechanism to manipulate and describe media "mixing" or "topology"
for multiple media types (audio, video, text)
● A mechanism for notification of conference related events/changes (for
example a floor change)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/evaluatingwebconferencetools-150218161754-conversion-gate02/85/Evaluating-web-conference_tools-7-320.jpg)
Evaluating web conference_tools
- 1. Evaluating Web Conferencing Tools - Aniket Maithani A2305210104 Amity University, Uttar Pradesh
- 2. What is Web Conferencing? ● Web conferencing may be used as an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web seminars ("webinars"), webcasts, and peer-level web meetings. ● In general Web Conferencing refers to conversing with one or multiple people over the internet.
- 3. How “IT” Works ● Web conferencing software is invoked by all participants in a web meeting. Some technologies include software and functionality that differs for presenters and attendees. Software may run as a web browser application or stand alone computer application.
- 4. Examples
- 5. Operations ● Depending on the technology being used, participants may speak and listen to audio over standard telephone lines or via computer microphones and speakers. Some products allow for use of a webcam to display participants, while others may require their own proprietary encoding or externally-provided encoding of a video feed (for example, from a professional video camera connected via an IEEE 1394 interface) that is displayed in the session.
- 6. Features of Web Conferencing ● Slideshow presentations ● Live or streaming video ● VoIP ● Web tours ● Meeting Recording . ● Whiteboard with annotation (allowing the presenter and/or attendees to highlight or mark items on the slide presentation. Or, simply make notes on a blank whiteboard.) ● Text chat ● Polls and surveys ● Screen sharing/desktop sharing/application sharing
- 7. Standards ● Web conferencing technologies are not standardized, which has reduced interoperability and transparency and increased platform dependence, security issues, cost and market segmentation. In 2003, the IETF established a working group to establish a standard for web conferencing, called "Centralized Conferencing (xcon)". This include(s) ● A binary floor control protocol. Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)[6] published as RFC 4582 ● A mechanism for membership and authorization control ● A mechanism to manipulate and describe media "mixing" or "topology" for multiple media types (audio, video, text) ● A mechanism for notification of conference related events/changes (for example a floor change)
- 8. History ● Real-time text chat facilities such as IRC appeared in the late 1980s. ● Several point-to-point and private-network video conferencing products were introduced in the early 1990s, most notably CU-SeeMe. ● In May 1995, PictureTel announced LiveShare Plus as a general-use data collaboration product for Windows-based personal computers.
- 9. ● In May 1996, Microsoft announced NetMeeting as an included component in Internet Explorer 3.0. ● In 1996, PlaceWare was founded as a spinoff from Xerox PARC. ● In February 1998, Starlight Networks released StarLive! (the exclamation point being part of the product name). ● In June 1998, PlaceWare 2.0 Conference Center was released, allowing up to 1000 live attendees in a meeting session
- 10. ● In April 1999, Vstream introduced the Netcall product for web conferencing as "a fee-based Internet software utility that lets you send business presentations and other graphic information via e-mail to a Vstream server. ● In December 2003, Citrix Systems acquired Expertcity, giving it the GoToMyPC and GoToAssist products. ● In January 2003, Macromedia acquired Presedia, including the Breeze Presentation product.
- 11. Cloud/Web Based Conferencing System ● Case Studies : – www.webrtc.com – https://subrosa.io/ – GTalk
- 12. Advantages ● Scalable ● Flexibility ● Robust ● Scope ● Durability ● Sustainability
- 13. Scope for Improvement ● YES!!!... Privacy, Security and Bandwidth Consumption issues...
- 14. That's all folks
- 15. About The Presentation ● The following presentation is my own cumulative work. ● You are free to re-distribute the presentation provided the following LICENSE and it's term(s) are preserved. ● The articles are taken from ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/web_chat ● The images belong to their rightful owners. I DO NOT OWN THEM.