The MIM web gateway to IP multicast e-meetings

As video conferencing and e-meeting systems are used more and more on the Internet and in businesses it becomes increasingly important to be able to participate from any computer at any location. Often this is impossible, since these systems requires often special software that are not available everywhere or impossible to install for administrative reasons. Many locations also lack the necessary network infrastructure such as IP multicast. This paper presents a WWW gateway system that enables users to participate using only a standard web browser. The design and architecture of the system are described and performance tests that show the scalability of the system are also presented.