This paper describes a prototype software platform that supports advanced communications services, specifically services enabling effective group-to-group communications with a social purpose, between remote homes. The architecture, the individual components, their interfaces, and the rationale for building the software platform, such as the usage of standard consumer equipment, are described. A specific novel network based capability, called orchestration, is described as are the results of initial user and technical trials and some plans for future work.
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IEEE
doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2010.5640924
Together Anywhere, Together Anytime
International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks
Distributed and Interactive Systems

Stevens, T., Hughes, P., Williams, D., Craigie, I., Kegel, I., César Garcia, P. S., … Vogel, S. (2010). Enhancing Social Communication Between Groups. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks 2010. IEEE. doi:10.1109/ICIN.2010.5640924