The MOEBIUS system consists of hardware and software.
Hardware
The MOEBIUS system is built on a Communications Server which offers
multimedia communication services to the local area network. The
hardware of the Communication Server includes
- Satellite modem for 64 kbps communication over the satellite hop
- i486-PC with 16 MB of memory and 300 MB of disk
- VistaCom videocodec conforming to the H.261 specification
- networked video-audio-switcher (n-to-m)
- video cameras and other AV-devices
Software
The software consists of the operating system of the Communication Server
and the programs used to control the video codec and the programs used
to carry out Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW).
- SCO unix operating system 3.2v4
- video codec drivers for SCO unix (own development)
- TeamVideo controlling program for the video codec (own development)
- TeamSwitch controlling program for the video-audio-switcher (own development)
- TeamSketch, a shared whiteboard application (own development)
- electronic mail system based on sendmail and Eudora
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