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In this paper, we present the design and implementation of the BETEUS (Broadband Exchange for Trans-European Usage) communication and application platform. BETEUS is a European project aiming at developing generic, stable, flexible and scalable communication and application platforms which provide support for a collaborative work environments. In terms of collaborative work, BETEUS concentrates on distributed classroom, tele-seminar, multimedia document archival and retrieval and tele-tutoring. The problems found during the realization of the BETEUS platform are outlined and the proposed solutions explained. The follow-up of BETEUS in Switzerland through the TELEPOLY project which concerns operational teleteaching between the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (EPFL and ETHZ) is also presented.
The material is based upon work support by the CEC under grant Project Number M1010. EPF Lausanne and ETH Zürich have been supported by the “Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft” under contract number 94.0069.
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Znaty, S., Walter, T., Brunner, M., Hubaux, JP., Plattner, B. (1996). Multimedia multipoint teleteaching over the European ATM pilot. In: Plattner, B. (eds) Broadband Communications Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions. IZS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022229
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