Digital sovereignty
Integrating Jitsi Meet with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's Polycom environment
A self-hosted conferencing integration that connected Jitsi Meet with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's existing Polycom and SIP-based conferencing environment while preserving institutional control of the service.
- Jitsi Meet
- Polycom
- SIP
- Open source
- Public sector
- 2020
- Delivered during the first lockdown
- Swiss-hosted
- Institutional data control
- Polycom + Jitsi
- Integrated conferencing environments
The challenge
The constraint behind the work.
At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court needed a video-conferencing service for employees that aligned with its established open-source strategy.
Self-hosting in Switzerland supported the Court's requirement to retain control of institutional data. The core engineering challenge was interoperability: the Court already used a Polycom and SIP-based video-conferencing environment, and the new browser-based Jitsi Meet service needed to connect with that installed system without discarding the existing operating model.
Our role
Responsibility at the critical interfaces.
Doganbros, now Consensus Labs, collaborated with Adfinis and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's technical team on the required Jitsi Meet integration.
Our engineering work used Jibri as a gateway between Jitsi Meet and the existing Polycom and SIP-based conferencing environment. The scope focused on interoperability inside a self-hosted service rather than replacing the Court's installed conferencing infrastructure.
The work
What the engagement covered.
- 01 Translate the Polycom and SIP interoperability requirement into a workable Jitsi Meet integration path
- 02 Extend the Jibri-based gateway to connect browser-based Jitsi meetings with the existing Polycom environment
- 03 Coordinate the integration with Adfinis and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's technical team
- 04 Fit the new service to the institution's existing conferencing and operating constraints
Outcome and status
Interoperability without replacing the installed environment
The integration connected the self-hosted Jitsi Meet service with the Court's existing Polycom and SIP-based conferencing environment, allowing the two systems to work within the same communication setup.
The project remains a useful example of digital sovereignty in practice: an open-source service was adapted to established institutional infrastructure instead of requiring a wholesale replacement.
Consensus Labs applies the same discipline to real-time media systems and open-source integrations where new software must fit established infrastructure and operating constraints.
Public evidence
Sources that document the work.
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