| 摘要 |
A method and system for establishing a network-based collaboration is described. The method involves the provision of a collaboration establishment control module (CECM,11), a server-terminal (9) acting as a data source for the collaboration session, a plurality of client-terminals (10) to allow a user access for participating in thecollaboration session and one or more application gateways (8a-8d), the application gateways being configured to relay data between network components during the collaboration session. Both the server-terminal and the client-terminals are allocated an application gateway to which it transmits and receives data during the collaboration session, the allocation of the application gateways being determined by the location (5a-5d) of the serverâ terminal and client terminals within the network. Also described is a method of data path optimisation for the application gateways employed within the network-based collaboration. A particular application of the present invention is found within the field of Wide Area Network (WAN)-based collaborations.
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