TelePort - Noddy SIP client available
Ben Anderson <B.Anderson@lboro.ac.uk> Mon, 22 July 1996 14:34 UTC
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From: Ben Anderson <B.Anderson@lboro.ac.uk>
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we've been using this off and on over the summer and it seems fairly stable so if anyone wants to try it out... Teleport is an awareness tool that uses IP multicast to distribute awareness information using an experimental group awareness protocol (GAP). Each user runs a GAP client (eg. TelePort) to receive awareness information about other users in the 'awareness session'. Users can then initiate more focused interaction (eg through glances, or requests for 'connections') which is done using SIP. GAP should be scalable - it is based to a certain extent on RTCP but we have only used it inside our campus network - I am unsure as yet how well it performs in the wide area or with more than 10-20 participants. It should show the same behaviour as RTCP where everyone is sending, but I have no data (other than simulations) to prove this :-) For more background, screenshots and the binaries (only SunOS 4.1.4 and IRIX 5.2 at present I'm afraid) see: http://pipkin.lut.ac.uk/~ben/PHD_Public/teleport.html There are a number of not-yet-implemented features including: - support for initiating multipoint conferences, only 1-1 conferences are supported at present - interworking with sdr is not supported The development of TelePort was supported by BT who retain all rights to the software and all concepts, designs etc contained within it. Potential users should note that: "This software is released for evaluation purposes only. Copyright 1995/1996 British Telecommunications plc. All rights reserved." I'd be interested to hear any comments, ideas, feedback etc. cheers Ben. -- http://pipkin.lut.ac.uk/~ben/sig.html
- TelePort - Noddy SIP client available Ben Anderson