Research and Development of an integrated multimedia conferencing system

This paper presents the research and development process of an integrated multimedia conference system named "BK Meeting Anywhere-BKMA" and related issues. The system seamlessly integrate Internet multimedia and telephony network for both real-time and non real-time communications. One of the most important features of the system is the successfulness of utilizing popular low-cost hardware to form a complex, feature-rich and flexible communication systems. Several issues such as technology, software design and implementation, system integration, measurement, are to be discussed in the next sections.