Access Grid is a platform for multipoint multimedia conferencing over high-speed network. Comparing to H.323, Access Grid requires a lot more bandwidth to make reasonable video conference because it is decentralized architecture. In other words, there is not bottleneck in Access Grid. That’s why it consumes more bandwidth. Microsoft NetMeeting is a clone of H.323 system so Microsoft needs to propose new conferencing system to compete with Access Grid. Now, the new system called ConferenceXP is in the lab.

According to the website, ConferenceXP is mainly designed for wireless classrooms, collaboration and distance learning. These objectives are very similar to Access Grid. In more detail, ConferenceXP relies on RTP like Access Grid did. In particular, it consists of Client, Archive Service, Reflector Service, and Venue Service. Venue Service in ConferenceXP does the same function of Venue Server in Access Grid.

At last, ConferenceXP releases all of its source codes by now. Access Grid is being attacked.

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