Services for desktop collaboration, webcasting, videoconferencing, etc. are offered through the Nordic NRENs to users in the R&E community. The services provided by NORDUnet allow (Nordic) NRENs to offer a comprehensive set of communications and video conferencing services to campus and mobile users.
Research and education is inherently collaborative and global. Researchers and students need secure, flexible, high-quality communication platforms for sharing data, collaborating in real time, and accessing network-based services.
NORDUnet has extensive experience delivering real-time communication solutions tailored to the research and education community, offering a range of platforms designed to meet these needs.
The NORDUnet operated Zoom service is available to all organizations and projects within the Nordic NREN community through the local NREN in each country.
Since the early months of 2020 the request for the Zoom service has exploded. The need for institutions across both the Nordics and world-wide to be able to offer stable, secure and fast on-line education became very apparent.
Users can quickly connect to meetings with up to 300 participants without extra licenses and easily share content with a range of integrated tools using the Zoom Workplace App. The NORDUnet Zoom partnership provides licensing with educational discounts tied to the use of NORDUnet provided infrastructure to support the Zoom cloud service. Zoom can be integrated with learning management systems utilising a simple “URL Click to Call” function making it easy for educators to create virtual classrooms that are accessible across a range of devices, including laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Because Zoom allows guests to easily join meetings, it is also a game-changing collaboration platform for researchers working with partners across institutions, across the world.
The NORDUnet Zoom video and web conferencing service is based on the Zoom on premise solution with a redundant centralized installation hosted in NORDUnet and SUNET Hosting Centres within the Nordic region and supports the available options and features as described further below.
The NORDUnet Zoom on-premise solution handles all regular video traffic relating to the use of Zoom via the Workplace App, H.323, and Zoom Rooms.
There are, however, a few exceptions like the use of PSTN and the direct web browser access, these gateway functions are not running On-Premise
and will use the regular Zoom public cloud (EU).
The service is based on a hybrid between on-premise server infrastructure operated by NORDUnet and the Zoom Public Cloud in EU.
The NORDUnet Zoom service is available to all organizations and projects within the Nordic NREN community through the NREN in each country.