Collaboration
Flexibility and mobility: Be it video conferences, cloud telephony, appointment or event coordination, our collaboration services offer secure, stable, real-time communication and supports distributed work environments and cross-disciplinary cooperation in science and research.
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The Video Conferencing Service in the Scientific Network
With DFNconf, we offer members the capabilities to run video, audio, and web conferences. The service is tailored to the specific needs of the scientific community, and is primarily designed to host video conferences with a high degree of reliability and information security.
DFNconf also supports online-based education and training based several attractive framework agreements for highly-scalable, cloud-based web and video conferencing services, including well-established cloud-services and products from the open-source community that address the various challenges associated with online teaching.
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The Convergence of Telephone and Data Networks
The development of computer-assisted information and communications systems is being guided by a vision of convergence between previously separated communications systems and networks (data networks, telephony networks, wireless networks, etc). Internet protocols have established themselves as a significant integration tool, as they are already widely spread across the globe and—in principle, at least—can be used across most all networks, services, and applications. DFNFernsprechen offers modern telecommunications services based on IP-technology.
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Fast, Simple Scheduling
For our participating institutions, hosting events and coordinating schedules is part of the job. The DFNTerminplanner is a free, open platform for easily coordinating events, meetings, and other types of scheduling. As with all of our services, data efficiency and security carry significant weight, and the service can be used without first registering.
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DFNNetNews offers access to thousands of news groups in which expert knowledge from international communities can be accessed and used. In addition to a large number of English-language news groups, the service also offers numerous national and regional news groups where relevant discussions can continue in a wide variety of other languages.
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With DFN-Listserv, we provide a robust mailing list server for subject-specific discussions surrounds science and research. You do not have to register to participate in the mailing lists, only to create and manage your own lists.