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 cope with today's bandwidth scarcity, it implements a reliable "multicasting" technology (one to many data communication) over standard TCP (internet) connections.

News

• April 22, 2002 - First day of my new job... 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.

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