To honor the requirements of a large collaborative project, a
set of commercial multimedia equipment for teleconferencing
was installed in one of our conference rooms. We were
surprised how many constraints that system had and how
expensive was to break out of those constraints, so we decided
to explore other options that would use as much as possible of
the equipment we had and would build more features through
open source software and in-house development.
Our initial equipment consisted into the following: