[Battlemesh] teleconferencing systems

[Pedro]

for the streaming facility (specially audio) it is very easy (matured
software like icecast and liquidsoap), here I noted some documentation:

https://gitlab.com/guifi-exo/wiki/-/blob/master/howto/radio-audio-streaming.md

(I hope to move soon that article to
https://gitlab.com/guifi-exo/xrcb/xrcb-docs)

On 3/13/20 8:27 PM, Pedro wrote:
> It also depends where are that 40 simultaneous participants
>
> I tried one-to-one jitsi conversation from Europe to southamerican
> country and it was horrible. Then we switched to skype or cisco webex
> and it was wonderful.
>
> It's not just the software technology, also, the network infrastructure
> around it and how neutral it is.
>
> Theoretically, inside Europe, communications are neutral [1]. Outside
> Europe of course not.
>
> At least in Barcelona, we have a lot of optical fibers to choose and it
> is incredible to see such big latencies you can find between ISPs (for
> example: around 30ms, when you can make it to be 10 ms, 2 ms).
>
> By the way, can you REALLY manage a meeting with 40+ participants that
> way? Can you explain how does work that kind of meetings? Because if
> there are 50 participants but only 4-5 of them speak. Then you can have
> that 4-5 jitsi meeting and a streaming for the rest (with a chat channel
> for extra communication?) or maybe only inviting the people that is
> willing to say something. Or maybe calling some of them to say something
> (like the radio did in the past)
>
> Cheers,
> Pedro
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_European_Union
>
> On 3/13/20 11:57 AM, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:29 AM Paul Fuxjaeger <paul.fuxjaeger at gmx.at> wrote:
>>> Jitsi works well for large number of clients?
>> I heard it has scaling problems, a friend complained that it could not
>> support 40 simultaneous participants.
>>
>>> I just heard that OpenMeetings and BigBlueButton may be worth looking at
>>> too.
>> Let's call on our govs to give money to open source projects, or pay
>> for videoconferencing servers.
>>

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