Collaboration Infrastructure. VRVS (Virtual Room Videoconferencing System) is a unique, globally scalable next-generation system for real-time collaboration by small workgroups, medium and large teams engaged in research, education and outreach.
VRVS operates over an ensemble of national and international networks. Initially designed as a limited-scale prototype serving the high energy and nuclear physics (HENP) community, VRVS has added more functionality to benefit from the latest software developments. VRVS covers the full range of existing and emerging protocols and the full range of client devices for collaboration, from mobile systems through classroom and laboratory desktops to installations in large auditoria.
New tools are developed to allow teacher-education faculty, consultants, and K-12 classroom teachers to engage in large collaborative sessions as part of their daily activity.
The existence of such an environment and the new features will be used as the foundation of the GLORIAD collaboration infrastructure where we will extend and consolidate the deployment of the VRVS real-time collaboration infrastructure to the US, Russia, China, Korea, Canada, Netherlands and Central Asia. This advanced international infrastructure will represent a powerful basis for supporting a transparent collaboration among diverse communities engaged in joint exploration and investigation of new learning environments and new paradigms in learning processes.
Also, through partnership with Cisco and through their donation of IP telephony equipment and expertise, GLORIAD will deploy an IP telephony infrastructure as part of its overall strategy to facilitate increased ease of communications.
