OpenMeetings as a browser-based teleconferencing tool for EFDA laboratories

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• 作者：B. Santos^a ;   ; ^{bsantos@ipfn.ist.utl.pt} ; R. Castro^b ; J.H. Santos^a ; D. Gomes^a ; H. Fernandes^a ; J. Sousa^a ; C.A.F. Varandas^a
• 关键词：PAPI ; OpenMeetings ; Authentication ; Nuclear fusion ; EFDA ; Collaboration tools
• 刊名：Fusion Engineering and Design
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：October 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：86
• 期：6-8
• 页码：1282-1285
• 全文大小：179 K

文摘

Remote participation is a key success factor for worldwide organizations and video-conference is an important aspect when laboratory collaborators are geographically dispersed.

Several tools for video-conference are available worldwide. However, there is a need for a default integrated set of tools which provide all the needed features for remote participation between cooperating laboratories. Moreover, laboratories currently use different video-conference tools to communicate leading to a non-compatible method among them.

OpenMeetings is open source software which provides video-conferences through web-browsing. It is operating system independent, requires no computer installation providing easy integration with already existing tools and customization of requirements.

This paper intends to give an OpenMeetings overview as a video-conference application between worldwide laboratories and to demonstrate its integration with the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) Federation authentication and authorization features. EFDA Federation is a multi-organization security infrastructure, whose purpose is to provide sharing and provision of a wide set of resources so that authenticated users may access them in a transparent and secure mode. This infrastructure is based on a distributed security technology called PAPI (Point of Access to Providers of Information).

OpenMeetings can be a valuable EFDA Federation resource and a good approach as a method to provide a worldwide laboratory video-conferencing application, based on standard browsers.