Real-Time Communications Framework

GÉANT and NORDUnet jointly ran the EU-level tender to provide unmanaged (on-premise) and hybrid-managed video conferencing and real-time communications to National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and their institutions.

All vendors were required to fulfill these mandatory technical requirements:

• Clientless access
• VC room connectors
• Multi-tenancy
• SAML2 WebSSO
• Standard-based API
• Hardware-agnostic
• Recording option
• Professional services/software support

The framework includes only licenses for software products and support, and includes no hardware or end-user devices. On-premise hardware and/or virtual infrastructure must be provided by users.

Features and pricing can be seen on the Wiki (federated access required).

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