World Wide Conferencing Network

WWCN is a system that provides multimedia conferencing services on a world-wide scale. It has been optimized for realtime data delivery: music, voice, video, pictures, text, software updates, and so on. To be able to scale well, it implements a reliable "multicasting" technology (one to many data communication) over standard TCP (internet) connections.

Contents

HOME

WHAT IS WWCN?
   Introduction
   White papers

HOWTO...
   connect
   tune in
   build a network?

SOFTWARE
   multimedia players
   multimedia producers
   chat clients
   server software

MANUALS
   xmit
   recv
   fifo123



News

2010

  • September, 2010 - new employer: ActiveVideo, re-inventing television (from the cloud)

    2004

  • December, 2004 - new employer: Motorola, further inventing the WiMAX, LTE (4G), and LTE Advanced (5G)

    2002

    • April 22, 2002 - First day of my new job... further inventing the WiFi's at Agere Systems... this means that WWCN activities will be getting hardly any bandwidth.
    • March 22, 2002 - Release day! Version 0.16 of the server package 'datasphere' has been released. Have a look at the release notes. Also, version 1.0 of the unseperable duo xmit and recv has been released. Oh, and, joy, also a patch against mpg123 to allow you to stream mp3's to WWCN!
    • March 18, 2002 - The website has been completely rebuilt. It finally is in the traditional black-and-yellow design to match the WWCN T-shirts. Find the old website here

    2001

    • November 2001 - I did my public PhD defense on November 2nd, and got my title. As I am now officially and unofficially unemployed, I have plenty of time to work on WWCN again!
    • August 2001 - Hackers at Large 2001 takes place on the campus of the University of Twente. Somehow this event, and the 10 months of preparation it took, is related to the non-progress of WWCN. The other 3 years of non-progress are still a big mystery.

    Find a selection of 'old news' below.

    • September 19, 1997 - www.wwcn.org online.
    • September 17, 1997 - wwcn.org has been kindly registered by xs4all (with thanks to JohnPC).
    • April 27, 1997 - Eric Schol has designed a WWCN logo.
    • April 5, 1997 - WWCN will be officially opened at the hacker's festival HIP '97 more information
    • October 10, 1994 - estimated date of birth of WWCN, by G. Hiddink