Remote Engineering Sessions:

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Remote Engineering Sessions Practical
Aspects
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Future way of collaboration
Improvement of the development process Higher
cost-effectiveness
Audio-video conferences and or application sharing
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Application sharing
Often over Internal LAN only

• Companies policy

• Software not secured

• Software not firewall friendly

• Software not bandwidth friendly

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Collaboration
Collaboration with geographically different
locations
Requires Meetings


Traveling and time
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How can application sharing be used?
Added value
To audio-video conference facilities
From anyones desktop
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Practical aspects
Is ISDN an option?
Not ideal
Is the Internet an option?
YES!
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Practical aspects
What issues can we expect?

Platform support issues

Bandwidth issues

Security issues

Opening ports on firewall

Encryption of sent traffic

Company security policy

accommodated participants
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Practical aspects
Can these issues be overcome?
Y E S !
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Practical aspects
ESA/Estec Solution

• Application sharing over the Internet via a tool
• Bandwidth friendly
• Firewall friendly
• Secured

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Practical aspects
How does this tool work?

• Developed in Java

• With a browser
• login to a server
• located somewhere in the world

• In future platform independent
• In future will support any browser

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Practical aspects
users per server

• approximately 250

Bandwidth usage

• optimised

• screen info compressed

• only screen changes

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Practical aspects
Security
Multilayered security

• User authentication

• RSA Keypair and RC4 encryption

• HTTPS/SSL supported

• Site/Host access control

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Practical aspects
Pull technology
Client initiates connection
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Practical aspects
Security policies
Not allowing any access to local data
Not providing network connections outside the LAN
In these cases ANY form of Remote access or
application sharing Is NOT possible
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Practical aspects
Short summary
Tool is available for remote collaboration with
ESA/Estec
For now only Microsoft applications
Tool used from a desktop or as added value to AVC
facilities
Tool addresses the practical aspects
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Server Based Computing Solutions
Please take this future way of remote
collaboration with ESA/Estec into consideration

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Last point
For additional digital information e-mail
Stan.vangemert_at_atosorigin.com
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