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Contents

Acknowledgements
Report Summary
Chapter 1 Introduction/Background*
Chapter 2 SUN Hardware and Software for Videoconferencing*
Chapter 3 Other Videoconferencing Software*
Chapter 4 Evaluation Tables for Videoconferencing Software
Chapter 5 Helpdesk/Advisory Case Studies
Chapter 6 Overall Conclusions
Appendix 1 Training Documents Used in the Project
Appendix 2 Sunvideo and the XIL Programming Library*
Appendix 3 Compression Issues
Appendix 4 Multicasting
Appendix 5 Videoconferencing Bandwidth Requirements

Note: Chapters marked with a * contain inline images

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of members of the Computing Services Department at Liverpool who contributed in various ways essential to the work described in this report. Particular thanks go to Chris Wooff and Allyson Matthews who took part in some of the case studies reported on in Chapter 4 and made useful comments on the contents of the report.

Funding to support the work was provided under the SIMA initiative which is administered by the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics. AGOCG is funded by the JISC and the SIMA project is funded by the JISC/NTSC under the New Technologies Initiative.

JSM/MT

April 1995

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