Videoconferencing with Vscene is delivering research, teaching, learning and organisational efficiencies daily, to thousands of users throughout the UK and Ireland - supporting some of the challenges faced by the HE and FE sector. This session will show you how simple it is to use and some of the situations it is used in, including an outreach initiative, started from Bedford School with the University of Sheffield and the Sutton Trust, to run a wide variety of career-based videoconferencing sessions online.

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Video conferencing from Jisc
Tim Boundy
Team manager, Applications and video development

2. Why is this so complicated?
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Who
Person to person
vs
Video system calls video system
When
On demand
vs
Scheduled (booked) events
What
Shared physical rooms
vs
Personal endpoints
Where
Semi-permanent virtual room
vs
Temporarily brought together

4. Two ways to useVscene
Scheduled
conferences
Virtual
rooms
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22. Changes are afoot…
1. Interface improvements
2. More efficient infrastructure
Development Phase 2 - February to August 2016
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23. ExistingVscene infrastructure
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ISDN endpoint
Telephone
H.323/SIP Endpoint
H.323/SIP Endpoint
Janet
Irish H.323/SIP Endpoint
HEANet NREN B
VCS
Infrastructure
STREAM
Vidyo Portal
VidyoReplay Cluster
VidyoRouter Pool
VidyoGateways
NREN C
Visimeet Servers
Cisco MCUs
Cisco MCUs
ISDN Gateways

24. Constant improvement – Phase 2, Aug 2016
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» Investment in the interface (Usability Review)
» More help with everything…
› Fewer confusing terms
› More graphics, FAQs, video tutorials, etc.
› HTML emails for readability and understanding
» Telephone access, recording and streaming in virtual rooms
» MobileApp for joining a conference
» WebRTC browser access
» A more consistent experience

25. The JanetVideoconference Service (JVCS)
» 1995 to 2015
» Used by education, research, admin,
content providers
» Snapshot on 30 July 2014…
› 8,151VC Systems
› (no browser option)
› 9,866 users
› 1,112 organisations
› ~45,000 conferences per year
JVCS
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26. The JanetVideoconference Service (JVCS)
» 1995 to 2015
» Used by education, research, admin,
content providers
» Snapshot on 30 July 2014…
› 8,151VC Systems
› (no browser option)
› 9,866 users
› 1,112 organisations
› ~45,000 conferences per year
JVCS
» 35% churn of users
» 2014 to present
› 3,354VC Systems plus browser
option
› 9,021 users
› 1,284 organisations
› 31,727 conferences (2015)
› ~16,500 virtual room sessions
Vscene
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27. Who is usingVscene?
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Registered endpoints by sector (Dec 2015 ,Total 3265)
Higher Education,
2013, 62%
Schools, 571, 18%
Content Providers, 46, 1%
Public Sector, 190, 6%
NHS, 11, 0%
Further Education, 182, 6%
Research Council, 209, 6%
Commercial, 43, 1%

28. Why are they using it?
»In 2012*VC saved the UK Higher Education sector:
› £66 million in costs
› 10.25k tonnes net of emitted CO2
»For the nine universities studied in detail, savings were between
£152k and £1.6million pa
»Each meeting replaced by aVC saved an average of £175
*SusteIT initiative: “Financial and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Conferencing andVirtual Meetings in UK Universities”
http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/display/18440789
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29. What are they doing with it?
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Purpose ofVC (Dec 2015- total 1948)
Lecture
7%
Tutorial
12%
Teaching
14%
Research
3%
Admin/Management
Meeting
42%
Event Participation
2%
Training Event/Demo
2%
Interview
2%
QA tests
7%
SystemTesting
9%

30. What are they doing with it?
A day in the life ofVscene
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31. Tutorials
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32. Regular lectures
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33. Broadcast lectures
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34. International teaching
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35. Expert contributions
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36. Make your own free virtual room now!
vscene.jisc.ac.uk
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37. Video conferencing crimes
We are all guilty! Please consider your victims.

38. You canVC from anywhere!
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39. Pee po…
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40. Its like you’re in the same room/nostril…
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41. Gotham is calling
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42. Gnome conferencing
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44. And not forgetting the…
»Eaters
»Breathers
»Snorers (yes really !!!)
»Paper shufflers
»Pen tappers
»Aggressive typers
»Daydreamers
»Pretenders
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Tim Boundy
Applications andVideo Development
Team Manager
Tim.boundy@jisc.ac.uk
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