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1. The specific Vidyo/CERN/GÉANT service deal is not favorable by most of the NRENs as is. It will only be provided to SWITCH.
2. The presented model is not salable without tendering procurement so it cannot be safely offered to other NRENs.
3. It is not recommend to make it available via the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue as NRENs could easily run into scalability and other national legal issues.
4. Taking the level of demand that the few positive answers represent, it is recommended to GÉANT to look into other models to satisfy the community needs for hosted/un-hosted video conferencing services.

Further work

What I'm hearing from the community is that we have to separate the two things:
a) vc software license offers (provided by commercials)
b) tenancy/hosting offers (provided by NRENs)

There is a need for a joint EU tendering procurement for vc software licenses that is general enough to allow multiple vendors to answer and to be selected. This would give a choice to our community that is legally safe.

(BTW, CERN has to re-procure in two years. If we'll be faster with our joint tendering-procurement than that, they would be interested in buying from us.)

Hosting options can be clarified separately later.