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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Launches Multi-User Desktop<br />

Video Conferencing System<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2010--04—20<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=271818300<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Apr. 20, 2010: The Computer Center <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

(<strong>PKU</strong>CC) has formally introduced the <strong>PKU</strong> Multi-User Desktop Video Conferencing<br />

System and its services to the campus since April 16. Anyone who has a computer, a<br />

headset, and a web-camera, can conveniently call on online video conferences<br />

anywhere anytime for as many as 25 participants simply by opening a web-browser.<br />

In the past, the Computer Center frequently received requests for holding small<br />

video conferences: users wished to be able to have meetings with a group <strong>of</strong> people<br />

while sitting at their respective home or <strong>of</strong>fice. For instance, cooperation project<br />

seminars that happen on a regular basis, preparation and organization <strong>of</strong><br />

international conferences, distant-lecturing and Q&A sessions, online video<br />

interviews, etc. Now, all <strong>of</strong> these demands can be easily met by this newly launched<br />

video conferencing system.<br />

The Multi-User Desktop Video Conferencing System allows up to 25 participants to<br />

attend the conference simultaneously, with numerous useful functions as well as<br />

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