Build Your Own eduMEET Service

eduMEET is an Open Source web-conferencing service from GÉANT portfolio. It is an interactive, web-based videoconferencing platform, supporting distant learning processes, including audio-video communication, chat, screen and file sharing.

Created by our community for our community. Trustworthy, self-hosted, secure. Integrated with community owned STUN/TURN service. Keeping traffic inside community networks. All this makes eduMEET safe and cost effective alternative to commercial solutions.

1. eduMEET installation

1.1 eduMEET service requirements:

Min. configuration of VM / server

  • typical modern CPU (8 cores)
  • RAM: ~ 8 GB
  • HDD: ~ 100GB
  • 1 network adapter (1Gb/s)
  • OS:  Ubuntu / Debian
  • public IP address (without any NAT)
  • domain name assigned (for certificates)

With this minimum configuration the eduMEET service is able to handle up to ~600 concurrent users.

1.2 eduMEET software installation

Before you start the installation please request  LTC STUN/TURN credentials for your eduMEET instances

There are two recommended ways of installations:

1) Ansible installation

2) Direct docker image installation

2. eduTURN installation

2.1 eduTURN description

eduTURN is community owned and managed STUN/TURN service, based on open source coturn. It is not a must have service, but very helpful for overcoming NAT, firewall and packets filtering issues (because of which about 30% of connections can fail). There are 10 nodes in Europe already now, but - the more, the better. Moreover -  it's good to have a node close to VC participants.

2.2 eduTURN service requirements

Two medium class virtual or physical machines!

Reason: 2 authentication types are supported:

  • Long Term Credential
  • REST

Both of them can not be implemented in one service (they conflicts because REST reuse TURN username/password part in a different way).

Min. configuration of each server:

  • typical CPU (2-4 cores)
  • RAM: ~ 8GB
  • HDD: ~ 100GB
  • at least 1, (or better 2) network adapters
  • OS - stable Debian 8

Additional requirements:

  • at least 1, (or better 2) public global IPv4 addresses,
  • at least 1 (or better 2) IPv6 addresses,
  • DNS resolvers:  2x IPv4 and 2x IPv6,
  • and the host FQDN.

2.3 eduTURN software installation