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                          MICE


Esprit Project 7602, Multimedia International Conferencing for
European Researchers (MICE), commenced work on 1 December 1992.
The major objectives of the project are:

o       To provide appropriate multi-media, multi-party
        conferencing facilities to research workers in Europe,
        with links to North America; these to be provided
        across disciplines and ideally, usable by any research
        worker.

o       To design these facilities to interwork with those
        already deployed for other projects in the research
        community.

o       To provide the facilities in a form that would be
        appropriate to complement multi-party meetings so
        that one emphasis will be on conference rooms;
        workstations with reduced facilities will also be
        embraced.  In both cases the facilities provided will
        include shared workspace use of workstations as well
        as video-conferencing.

o       To design the facilities to be deployable with minimal
        expenditure on communications and minimal delay, thus
        precluding the provision of a separate communications
        network.

o       To use the emerging European infrastructure of international
        connections between National Packet Switched Networks (Europanet
        and EBONE inside Europe, and the different links to the US
        from Europe)

The project is planned for completion in 12 months. It will
consist of three overlapping phases: definition, trials and
evaluation. During the definition phase, a multimedia
conferencing reference architecture will be defined; thereafter
the exact facilities to be provided in conferencing rooms,
conferencing workstations and a Conference Multiplexing and
Management Centre will be specified.

During the trials phase, the facilities of all three areas will
be improved progressively and put into limited service. During
the evaluation phase, the strengths and weaknesses of the
facilities will be assessed, forecasts will be made on the
timing of more economic equipment and more appropriate
algorithms, and recommendations will be made for the deployment
of an operational system. The timescale is only achievable,
within the limited effort proposed, because the project will be
based heavily on existing developments funded under other
programmes.

The MICE consortium includes the following partners: UCL
(prime contractor), Stuttgart U, INRIA, U of Oslo, ONERA,
SICS, GMD, Nottingham U, ULB/VUB, NTR.


It is intended that the initial four sites should be connected
within the first four months of the project.
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