Teleplace
Computerworld
"However, one excellent alternative to travel is [Teleplace], a service that creates a very life-like virtual meeting area in the cloud. It's an exciting, interactive working environment for groups."
How do Teleplace work?
At the core of Teleplace is a powerful and extensible platform that offers the features needed to support business collaboration.
Scalable architecture. Each user's computer provides the computational power to run a collaborative, virtual space. As more users join a virtual space, more CPU and graphics power is available to support using the virtual space. Teleplace uses a single secure outbound connection from each client machine that goes through a central router service to provide management services such as logging and QoS (quality of service).
Secure, flexible, and extensible. Teleplace are dedicated, secure environments. Other users or companies must be explicitly invited to access your workspaces. Users can occupy many different Teleplace as appropriate, allowing them to work on different topics with different teams. Different users can have different levels of access to Teleplace; for example, employees might have access to spaces that business partners do not.
Software as a Service (SaaS). Teleplace is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, including unlimited voice use, for a flat fee based on a per user per month fee. As new features are released in Teleplace, they are immediately available to current customers as updates to the product are included in the flat fee. For customers who want to deploy Teleplace behind corporate firewalls, Teleplace will deliver the server as an appliance to them for deployment behind their firewall. All communication (voice, applications, persistence) share a single outbound connection on a single port.
Rich tools. The Teleplace platform provides a rich set of tools for creating an interactive venue with support for 2-D and 3-D graphics and data, voice and video integration, security and authorization framework. As part of the tools available, a rich set of collaboration features such as whiteboards, post-it notes, and text notepads can be acessed. Using the Python programming language, advanced users can also extend and enhance the functionality of their environments.
Teleplace Multi-Share™ is a fine-grained collaboration technology and allows multiple users to quickly and intuitively share control of an application or content. All users in a Teleplace can see how others are editing or modifying content.
Built-in VoIP and text chat. Every Teleplace environment comes with built-in voice over IP (VoIP) and text chat.
Built-in data encryption. As part of Teleplace's comprehensive security model, all communications between users is automatically encrypted. Whether sharing confidential information or having a confidential discussion, all content is secure.
Open standards. Teleplace is built upon the Croquet platform, an open model for developing and delivering deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. Teleplace also uses the Python programming language for scripting and standard XML interfaces for application integration.
