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Foil 17 Enhanced Support for Collaboration

From Summary of NPAC Year 3 Activities at Cewes Cewes PET Annual Meeting -- February 9-10 1999. by David Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Application improvements:
  • BuenaVista 3.0 (TANGO videoconferencing agent) completely rewritten for PC and SGI platforms
    • robust multithreaded implementation, extensively tested for stability
    • improved audio and video quality
    • support for multiple audio and video cards
    • re-implemented robust session control protocol
    • redesigned user interface
    • detailed documentation
    • Linux implementation ongoing
  • BV has been critical for remote class and training delivery
    • Version 3.0 will be released with TANGO 1.1

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