Telecommunications Multi-Platform

At TUKE, the Cisco Webex service is available as a less demanding web conferencing solution with low technical requirements on the client side. It enables users to organize both audio and video conferences, share content (documents and applications), and record meetings.

Users can access Webex conferences from the TUNET university network or the Internet via the URL: ciscowebex.tuke.sk.

Cisco Webex offers several options for audio participation in a conference:

• Dialling in by phone (Call-In)
• Connecting via computer audio (Voice Communication using Computer)
• Receiving a call back from the Webex system to a selected phone number (Call-Me)
• Voice communication is fully integrated with the existing IP telephony system.

Part of the nationwide technical infrastructure of the National Telepresentation Infrastructure for the Support of Research, Development, and Technology Transfer (NTI) project is located and operated at the ICT.

Across the campuses of Slovak universities and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, a total of 208 teleconferencing rooms with varying levels of technical and software equipment have gradually been established. At TUKE, there are currently 27 teleconferencing rooms in operation.

Comprehensive information about this project is available on the National Telepresence Infrastructure website hosted on the web portal of the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information.

The NTI archive contains recordings of live video conferences, presentations, and instructional materials.

Nowadays, email is predominantly used for sending documents. In some cases, especially for legal purposes, it is necessary to send or receive documents via fax.

The operation of analog fax devices was discontinued, along with the decommissioning of the analog telephone exchange. Analogue telephony has been replaced with IP telephony. The current solution was implemented as a part of the IP telephony project at TUKE, within which fax functionality has been integrated as a service of the TUNET computer network.

The NetFAX software solution enables authorized TUKE personnel to send and receive faxes directly from a personal computer. Incoming faxes are delivered as email attachments in PDF format to the recipient’s email address associated with the fax number. Outgoing faxes are sent by printing the document to the NetFAX virtual printer and then entering the target fax number. This method does not require any special external physical devices.

Physical documents that are not available in digital form must first be scanned into a digital format. The scanned document (image) can then be printed via the NetFAX virtual printer.