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1 Brazilian Mconf web conferencing supporting research at the South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) Presented by Kasandra Pillay SANReN Engineer kasandra@sanren.ac.za at TNC16 Prague, Czech Republic 1

2 What is Mconf? Open source multi-conferencing system that is web based Based on Big Blue Button web conferencing Began as a research project at PRAV: Projects in Audio and Video, Brazil Development funded mostly by Brazilian NREN, RNP since 2011 2

3 TNC12, TNC14 Proposal: A Global Experimental Web Conferencing Service for R and E NREN contribution to Mconf Global Academic Network: 1.An Mconf-Live server to strengthen the global network; 2.Create own NREN web portal to serve as the access point to their users; 3.Help in the debate to improve the model. - Mr Valter Roesler Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

4 4 Technical Implementation of Mconf 5 servers in South Africa: Brazil Global network SA 3 x Mconf-Live (back-end : distributed in Cape Town and Pretoria, adding to existing Global Mconf infrastructure) 1x Mconf-Web (front-end web portal) 1x Recording Server

5 5 Global Academic Network The Mconf Global Academic Network is a win-win for everyone Protection against temporary failure of local server or a traffic surge Global Network monitoring by Mconf Technologia

6 Success stories Usage this year (to 31-05-2016): 1609 users across 194 meetings Average meetings size: 8 participants Largest meeting: 39 participants Growing number of logins through Main clients: H3Africa and H3BioNet: 32 Bioinformatics research groups distributed throughout 15 African countries and 2 American partner institutions - Monthly seminars and weekly meetings (UCT involvement) Rhodes University: Post graduate meetings between supervisors and students, Class for Creatives and Dramatic Writing students CSIR: Coastal Systems Advance Mathematical Modelling (CSAMM) workgroup, Emerging Knowledge for Local Adaptation Project (EKLA) SANBI: South African National Bioinformatics Institute – Combat TB project Adhoc project meetings

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11 The SA NREN has found Mconf to be of excellent technical quality, low cost, easy to setup and with good support available. http://mconf.org/about/mconf-network/ http://mconf.org/about/mconf-network/ Why not join?

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