ConferenceXP Services

The ConferenceXP architecture enables developers to create custom services at the Network Transport layer by using Web services and Microsoft® .NET Remoting.

Venue Service

ConferenceXP Venue Service enables you to create and manage venues, which are virtual spaces where users can participate in synchronous collaborative and learning activities. With the Venue Service Administration tool, you can set up a Venue Service, and then add, edit, and delete venues.

Behind the scenes, the Venue Service provides a directory service that determines the multicast address of a venue for all clients. When a participant joins a specific venue, the Venue Service instructs the ConferenceXP Client application to open a specific port and IP address. After participants join a venue, all network traffic is peer-to-peer over the multicast IP address the venue service provides.

Venue Service interfaces are exposed as .NET Web services. Venue Service 2.0 and later no longer require Microsoft® SQL Server™.

Archive Service

With ConferenceXP 3.0 or later and Archive Service, you can record a ConferenceXP session to a connected server and then play back the recorded session. You can choose which RTP streams—including audio, video, and capabilities, such as ConferenceXP Presentation—you want to record. With Archive Service, you can store recorded sessions on a server running SQL Server, which allows easy storage of numerous streams at once while increasing its versatility and requiring very little processing overhead.

Reflector Service

With ConferenceXP 3.0 or later, you can use Reflector Service to enable a ConferenceXP client in a unicast-only network to receive multicast transmissions over unicast. For example, if multicast is not supported by a router in your network, preventing your ConferenceXP client from connecting to other clients in a multicast-enabled network, you can use the Reflector Service. The Reflector Service enables you to specify a computer in the multicast-enabled network as the Reflector Server, which receives the multicast network traffic and forwards it to your ConferenceXP client over unicast.

The Reflector Server forwards multicast network traffic over unicast.
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