H.323 Videoconferencing

Upcoming Events Relating to H.323

• Delivering Digital Video
  Offered by the Department of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering. This course describes the best technology and workflow for delivering live and on-demand video over a wide range of alternatives, from DVD to local and wide area networks and the Internet.
• Internet 2 Upcoming and Related Events Calendar
  This searchable database of events includes current, future and past activities collected and maintained by Internet2 partners and sponsorships.

H.323 Resources

• The Video Conferencing Cookbook
  From Video Development Initiative (ViDe), the Video Conferencing Cookbook has been prepared for academic and research users on advanced IP networks around the world.
• H.323 Tutorial
  The International Engineering Consortium provides Web-based tutorials utilized by industry professionals. A self-test with answers and a glossary are included. The entire tutorial is also available for download to registered IEC users (registration is free).
• H.323 Forum
  The H.323 Forum was created under IMTC (with ITU support) to address a growing industry need to promote H.323 protocol awareness. The Web site is a source for H.323 industry news and announcements, papers and presentations, listings of H.323 service providers and other products and services.
• Videoconference Standards Discussion List
  This list focuses on the technology, sucess and failure stories, questions about how others are doing it, etc. Discussion centers around the use ITU videoconference standards H.320 (ISDN), H.321 (ATM), H.323 (LAN or IP) and the data conferencing standard T.120 in support of distance education. The list is open to anyone interested in these topics. The list is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Instructional Communications Systems.
• Packetizer
  Packetizer is a site devoted to packet-switched conversational protocols and contains information provided by members of the Packetizer community. Extensive resources on H.323 are available, including sections on Standards and a list of Additional Resources. For those who wish to subscribe, Packetizer also supports discussion lists on both standards and implementation.
• International Telecommunication Union
  The ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
• H.323 Version 6 - Overview
  Multimedia Teleconferencing Standards
  H.323 version 6 was officially approved in June 2006, after ITU-T SG16 agreed to consent the text at the end of its meeting in April 2006.
• The Global Dialing Scheme Explained
  Explanation provided by VideNet with links to other documentation, including information on the GDS from the Interet2 Commons. The Global Dialing Scheme (GDS) is a new numbering plan for the global video and voice over IP network test bed, developed by Terena. It resembles the international telephone system numbering plan, with some exceptions. With the GDS, you can number each participating videoconferencing endpoint, MCU conference and gateway. GDS provides easy, uniform dialing throughout the world.
• H.323 Global Dialling Scheme (GDS)
  The Global Dialling Scheme has been adopted by a number of European Countries for H.323 interzone dialling - including Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. More countries are currently being added to the system.
• ViDe: H.323: An Introduction
  The goal of The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) is to promote the deployment of digital video in higher education by leveraging collective resources and expertise towards addressing challenges to deployment poor interoperability, volatile standards and high cost.
• Guide to Effective H.323 Videoconferencing
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) provides an overview of the process of H.323 conferencing from start to finish together with suggestions for each step along the way: Also provided is a streamed version of a staged a videoconference where everything is wrong and then corrected.
• Internet2 Commons
  The Internet2 Commons is a large-scale, distributed collaborative environment for the research and education community. Videoconferencing resources for H.323 are part of the Commons, including information on scheduling a videoconference and other items relating to using the Internet2 Commons H.323 videoconferencing services.
• Internet2 K20 Initiative
  The Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member institutions, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technologies into the hands of innovators across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as "connectedly" as possible.
• OpenH323
  The OpenH323 project aims to create a full featured, interoperable, Open Source implementation of the ITU H.323 teleconferencing protocol that can be used by personal developers and commercial users without charge.
• Internet Videoconferencing: Coming to Your Campus Soon! [pdf]
  This article was written by Robert S. Dixon, Ohio State University and the Ohio Academic Resources Network. From the Educause Information Resources Library, Educause Quarterly Number 4, 2000. The artcle states: "High-quality, full-screen, full-motion Internet videoconferencing is now within reach for most colleges and universities."
• Radvision White Papers
  Several papers written by Radvision on various H.323 topics