medVC — A remote collaboration solution enhanced with cloud services and future internet capacities

This paper describes medVC, a scalable telepresence platform designed to be deployed in hospitals to enable real-time audio-video communication and remote collaboration of doctors. Furthermore, the paper treats of CloudCONFetti, an experiment aiming to extend medVC with Future Internet capacities and to put it to trial in federated testbed facilities. The enhancement will be based on an innovative system for intelligent routing of videoconferencing streams by a distributed system of packet reflectors. The Fed4FIRE testbed federation was chosen performing the trials because previous experiences have shown that there are many benefits to performing evaluation using testbeds through a set of common tools. The complete and tested solution will be offered on the commercial market as there already are first potential customers in European healthcare markets.