SoftBridge

Latest projects

• traffic profiles (10/15/2011 06:26 AM)

  All IP-based communication projects, whether on real or simulated networks, require testing. We want traffic profiles that represent ways that users will actually use a network, including IM, VoIP, video and background bursty web/email traffic, as realistic as possible. Different projects may focus on different traffic patterns, for different reasons. This page discusses the approaches, with particular attention to mapping user needs to technical detail.

• DCCT (03/09/2011 11:50 AM)

  Deaf Community of Cape Town

• Web-based Video Communication (04/16/2010 01:17 PM)

  This project focuses on browser-based communication system, tending to design and evaluate a browser-based video communication application for Deaf people, finding out an architecture that most Deaf people would like to use. This research is inspired by a semi-synchronous Deaf communication project with the H.264 video codec. This thesis describes to provide a browser-based sign language communication service for Deaf users and introduces the communication requirements for a disadvantaged Deaf community in Cape Town. We posit an experimental design to test if the browser-based development technology can help provide an acceptable video quality for Deaf users. Two browser-based prototypes are built and experimented in this research. We wish to learn if the transport and the quality of the service characteristics of asynchronous and semi-synchronous browser-based video can provide an effective platform for sign language communication.

• SoftBridge Website (11/11/2009 01:42 PM)

  This project is to build a website to host wiki/news/source code for all BANG projects.

• MUTI (11/11/2009 11:48 AM)

  MUTI supports two ways of communication between healthcare professionals in a remote rural setting: synchronous and asynchronous. Synchronous means communication in real time. When real time communication is not possible, it can work in store-and-forward, or asynchronous mode. It can send text, pictures, voice and video across a rural wireless network.