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Foil 90 WebWisdom Design Details - I

From The Use of Web Technologies (at NPAC) in HPCC Collaboration and Education Trip to Digital Corporation in New Hampshire -- May 8 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 The layered design includes a secure database at its core on top of which are built a set of services including
  • audio and video servers; basic Web servers and a
  • collaboration subsystem which is heart of both asynchronous and synchronous delivery.
  • This has a set of basic collaboration capabilities including chat, audio-videoconferencing, whiteboard and shared applications.
2 The communication system supports the worldwide delivery and includes support for distributed databases to get high performance with for instance core courseware replicated on delivery machines with CD-ROM's or other such mechanisms.
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