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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

 

The GN4-2 project’s WebRTC Tasks (T4 and T5 under JRA4) – in conjunction with the open GÉANT Task Force on Web-RTC (TF-WebRTC) - will further investigate the feasibility of other models suitable for the community using the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue and federated service delivery pipeline.

  • The real value of any joint tendering procurement exercise must be modeled and demonstrated to the community through the community.
  • Not only the aggregated purchasing power of the community (that usually leads to a better deal only with a couple of percentage points) but other community benefits (i.e. common pool of shared licenses for serving peek demands) must be investigated.
  • The burden of the joint procurement must be taken up partly by the community and early commitments should ensure that the demand stays alive through the lengthy process.

 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.