Hermès, a collaborative environment at IN2P3
Christian Helft · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2010
IN2P3, the institute bringing together HEP laboratories in France, opened a videoconferencing service in 2002 based on an industry standard H323 MCU (Multiple Control Unit). This service has steadily grown since then, serving other French scientific communities in addition to HEP and reaching an average of about thirty conferences a day. The relatively small amount of manpower required to deploy and maintain this facility can be explained by the very sound design and the large array of built-in capabilities offered by the equipment that replaced the original equipment purchased in 2005.