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Objectives
The proposed platform will offer the following technical enhancements and extensions to the existing platform:
- Quality of Service for terrestrial segments,
- Development and implementation of advanced reservation via RSVP management,
- Privacy guarantee and attack prevention,
- Conditional access manager,
- Billing and accounting,
- Teacher-driven synchronous browsing,
- Client application: installer and user interface,
- Multicast whiteboard.
The proposed platform will be more scalable and flexible than the existing one.
Strategic value: the service centre of the proposed platform will:
- Serve a larger number of customers at the same time,
- Fulfil a broader domain of customer requirements,
thus contributing to a higher market adaptability.
Strategic value:
- The service centre of the proposed platform will contribute to a higher market adaptability,
- On the proposed platform, it will be more likely customers are willing to pay for value adding services,
- It will employ less enterprise resources to perform a heavier workload, making the initiative more profitable and competitive,
- It will be much more suitable for eLearning and newTraining applications,
- Deployment, distribution and diffusion of the proposed platform will lower the entry threshold to market.
Challenges
The integration of different media to develop and implement technology that will work well in schools, universities and homes with the minimum of user and supplier intervention.
The integration and testing of a Satellite Service Centre that, although assessed against the distance learning requirements, can be easily evolved toward new classes of services.
The identification of the right mix of integration between satellite and terrestrial based telecommunication infrastructure to be commercially sustainable.
The implementation of an academic instrumentation and learning system in the field of business to increase European competitiveness.
Plan
The organisations involved in the pilot operations have been:
- Clio, responsible of the architecture (both the University and the business part),
- University of Lecce, delivering lessons to test the pilot architecture.
The user groups involved in the pilot operations have been:
- Business employees located in remote classrooms,
- Academic remote students.
Clio has set-up and operated the transmitting site, the receiving sites and the required services.
At the remote classrooms of the University of Lecce, University teachers played the role of students will follow the lessons and interact with the “teaching” teacher.
Current Status
FR has been successfully completed.
The pilot system has been successfully integrated.
Pilot operations started September 2003 and ended June 2004.
A press event has been organised to disseminate project results.
The platform has been thoroughly tested in all predictable an unpredictable working conditions.
The adequacy of the implementation of the service platform has been verified through the execution of a functional verification test session.
In addition, a comprehensive assessment of the system commercialisation strategy (described in the Strategic Plan document) has been provided consequently to the first perception and penetration of the market.
