To seek consensus among participating world regions on the importance of the interoperability of real-time applications and work towards the adoption of standards such as those proposed by the Global CEO Forum to promote the creation of a worldwide environment for these applications.

Real-time communications are a key work area for NRENs. Almost all research areas, especially biology, medicine and physics, rely on real-time communications in their daily work.

MAGIC is working to expand video-network reach, and functionality by:

a) fostering the adoption of NRENum.net based dialling,
b) integrating the legacy (SIP capable) global video network with existing web- conference systems to achieve unified communications,
c) improving NRENum implementations with secure DNS (DNSSec) adoption.

By expanding use of the NRENum.net service, the group will help to deploy real-time communications as a service integrated with the global community. The NRENum.net based dialling standard will use the Domain Name System (DNS) for universal dialling across the world, and will allow future integration with VoIP networks. The DNSSec implementation will help to provide a more secure ENUM/NRENum.net service, avoiding DNS hijacking based attacks.

Colaboratorio is already installed and working at RedCLARA (Latin America), RENATA (Colombia), RedCEDIA (Ecuador), CKLN (The Caribbean) and WACREN (Western Africa). If you wish to install it in your own NREN web environment, or if you wish to install one of the applications with which MAGIC is working on, pleasse contact the RedCLARA team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will help you. 

Download the Colaboratorio Deployment document.