Since nearly half of all carbon emissions in video conferencing happen on the network, self-hosting a video conferencing server like BBB as close to the users as possible can have a significant reduction in emissions.
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A comparison of bandwidth consumption between proprietary web conference services and BigBlueButton, an open source webinar system
Prefectural University of Hiroshima had to shift to online classes at the beginning of the pandemic. They were evaluating various real-time video conferencing solutions for this purpose.njoseph.me