Effective collaborative environment with live broadcasts using Slovak National telepresence infrastructure

This paper introduces deployment, operation and technological challenges of project named National telepresence infrastructure to support research, development and technology transfer in Slovakia (NTI), which was managed by Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information. NTI is effective collaborative environment with not only videoconferencing ability but it dispone also live broadcast functions, recording to multimedia archive or automatic conference booking system. Overall infrastructure consists of core layouts, web platform and over two hundred collaborative endpoints, which will be described in solution design. After one and half year of pilot operation the NTI shows trends of usage among research, development and innovation institutions. The paper shows also examples of real usage of live broadcasts ability of NTI.