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<h1 id="foreword"><a class="header" href="#foreword">Foreword</a></h1>
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<p>The history of computer-aided communication, which supports not only
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text video and sound goes back to the 1990s. From from today’s
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perspective, it seems almost grotesque what prices had to be paid for
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infancy. infancy. There was a lack of
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at best distant goals. People were working on very
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application-specific solutions and approaches that had the potential
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for affordable components for mass production. As an example, the
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pioneering manufacturer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Graphics"><code>Parallax Graphics Inc.</code></a>. Founded in 1982 by two graduates of Cornell
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University, the company focused on the marketing of the marketing of
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<code>high end</code> graphics cards, including for the then popular university
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environment at the time. These cards initially cost around €25,000
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and supplied ASICS and a codex implemented in implemented in hardware,
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which could realize resolutions of up to 1280x1024 pixels could be
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realized.</p>
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<p>Every commercially available cell phone, tablet, notebook and desktop
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PCs currently deliver graphics card performance that can render 2k,
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even 4k pixels can render. Encoding and decoding solutions are
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decoding solutions have been standardized internationally, which have
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significantly reduced the bandwidths to be transmitted and thus and
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thus enable billions of uses on the Internet use on the
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Internet. One-to-one video telephony has been established for years.
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established for years. And everyone will remember the radical upheaval
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in the professional use of video conferencing solutions that the COVID
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pandemic brought with it in 2022.</p>
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<p>Today, the use of video conferencing solutions is ubiquitous. In the
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working world, proprietary solutions are often used, to implement work
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processes regardless of location. Examples include the products from
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the manufacturers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco"><code>CISCO->(Webex)</code></a>,
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<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Teams"><code>Microsoft->(Skype,Teams)</code></a>, <a href="https://www.hp.com/de-de/poly.html"><code>HP->(Poly)</code></a>
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and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_(software)"><code>Zoom->(Zoom)</code></a> are listed. But also free software such as
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<a href="https://bigbluebutton.org/"><code>BigBlueButton</code></a>, <a href="https://jitsi.org/"><code>Jitsi</code></a> or
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<a href="https://nextcloud-talk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><code>Nextcloud->(Talk)</code></a> are enjoying worldwide distribution.</p>
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<p>With <code>Element-Call</code> the Matrix ecosystems gains a new approach that
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fully embraces the potential of MatrixRTC. Think of participents in
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decentralized domains that are to able to dynamicly create and manage
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multipoint meetings in an efficiant manner. An Open-Source, that
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enables fee choice of any Matrix complient Client. What progress.</p>
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<p>— Ralf Zerres</p>
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