Videoconferencing Facilities

Rooms Available:

The following rooms are equipped with video conferencing units:

South Street Campus, Library Room 1.014. Air-conditioned room with recommended capacity of 6 is located on Level One (Two floors down from Bush Court Entrance) in the Library.
Units will be available shortly in Rockingham and Peel.

Booking the Room:

The service is only available for use by Murdoch Staff, although others may attend a conference.

This service is available during Library normal opening hours (please check up-to-date information about business hours of our Library http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/about/open.html

The availability of the rooms can be checked in OUTLOOK / Public Folders / All Public Folders / Murdoch University Resources / Central Resources / General / VC Unit at South Street Campus.

You can make a booking using the electronic form https://www.murdoch.edu.au/its/secure/videoconference/. You will be contacted once the booking is confirmed by AVS staff.

Please provide at least 48 hours notice before the planned meeting and at least 24 hours notice (via email to avs@murdoch.edu.au) if you wish to cancel the booking. You will receive a refund of the booking fee if cancelled within the required time.

Videoconferencing Charges:

A non-refundable booking fee of $50 is required for all videoconference bookings to cover setup and on-going costs of the venue.

Technical support is available during 08:30 16:30 on normal working days at no charge. If you require technical assistance out-of-hours (16:30 23:00 hrs), then a charge of $80/hour for weekdays (Mon-Fri) and $100/hour for weekends (Sat-Sun), will apply. A minimum of two hours charge applies for weekdays and three hours for weekends.

Use of ISDN calls will attract a usage charge. The charge will vary depending on the chosen bandwidth and locations of participants. A calculator is available at https://wwwcoms.murdoch.edu.au/cgi-bin/ldap_secure/video_conference_calculator that can be used to estimate this cost. You will also be charged the cost of testing of links if necessary.

Use of IP calls does not incur a direct charge. Like all other internet traffic, it forms part of the traffic allocation that is assigned to your School or Department. If the site is off-net, the internet traffic used during that session is deducted from the overall internet off-net allocation available to your section. As an indicator, a high quality IP videoconference session to an off-net site would typically use around 200Mbytes of internet traffic for a 1 hour session and would cost about $3.

Video recording of the session is also available on VHS tape. The recorder captures all activities including sound and vision from the TV monitor in the room. It can be requested via the booking form at a cost of $25 per 3hr tape.

All charges include GST.

Using the Facilities:

Instructions are available in the rooms on laminated cards. You can also bring along your laptop computer and plug into the video conferencing unit to display presentations or other material as part of the video conference. Please arrive at the room at least 15 minutes before the scheduled time to meet staff and test connections if necessary.

System Technical Details:

South Street Campus:

Equipment:	SONY PCS-G70
ISDN Data rates:	128 - up to 384 Kbps
IP Data rates:	Up to 4 Mbps