IP Telephony and Multimedia Communication is a project at the chair for Computer Networks and Internet. The focus in this project is twofold. First, we are looking for new technologies in the area of multimedia communication and try to install and test new services and applications. We have several master’s theses and student projects on such issues which focus on the evaluation or implementation of new designs. Secondly, we use the installed infrastructure for communications with research partners and others. Since we try to adopt new technology as fast as possible into out testbed, we are able to run software and hardware supporting all the required standards. In summary it can be said that the installed infrastructure together with ongoing research work gives us the opportunity to tidily follow the emerging trends in this sector.
Research Focus
- Wireless Communication
- Secured Communication
- Encryption (Student projects on PGPfone, VOVIDA)
- Authorization, Authentication, Accounting
Infrastructure
- Computer Networks and Internet
- H.323 Gatekeeper
- H.323 Conferencing Server (MCU, Multipoint Conferencing Unit)
- ISDN Gateway
- SIP-H.323-Gateway
- DFN (German Research Network)
- Gatekeeper, MCU, ISDN-Gateway
- ZDV (University Computing Center)
Where is your cell phone at the moment? Stop; don’t trouble yourself searching for it, why search your phone when you need it? Perhaps that’s what you have been doing all the while. Numerous phones have hit the stands, with avant garde technological advancements, yet this Handphone concept, with GSM – UMTS, is one that surely surpasses them all. This device designed to have it to hand and allow you to call using a natural gesture, features voice control for activation and dial memorized numbers. The fingers of the hand make the right size for it, as the microphone can be put very near the mouth and the speaker almost inside the ear to facilitate communication in the most nosiest of spaces aswell. It is easy to wear the handphone owing to its simple design that uses elastic string, which can be rolled around the middle finger and the wrist. Wearing the phone could be normal and trouble-free just like wearing a watch, ring or bracelet. And for the sheer reason of trend – the fashionistas can find elastic string in different colors, none would like missing this futuristic jewel, therefore check out more pictures after the jump.
