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Indiana University Offers Digital Video Services to iGrid 2000

released July 18, 2000

The International Grid (iGrid) special event at this summer's INET 2000 conference in Yokohama, Japan, will showcase the latest in technological innovations and application advancements supporting global community networking.

iGrid 2000 will highlight how scientific collaborators are taking advantage of global connectivity to empower collaborative solutions to complex problems. Through advanced networking techniques, researchers can access distributed computing, remote storage, and visualization/virtual-reality display devices more efficiently than ever.

Indiana University, in cooperation with corporate and university partners, is providing digital video services at iGrid 2000 designed to facilitate researcher collaboration and provide global dissemination of the iGrid 2000 demonstrations. IU is providing:

1. H.323 videoconferencing systems, in cooperation with Wire One Inc., at the iGrid venue and to selected researchers at their home bases. This will provide globally distributed researchers interactive access to their collaborators at the iGrid 2000 site.
2. CAMVision-2 MPEG2, in cooperation with Litton Network Access Systems and University of Washington. This will be offered over IP codecs and provide broadcast-quality interactive and streaming video from the iGrid floor, including multicast to Internet2 sites that have the Litton equipment and the first live IP-based trans-Pacific distribution to commercial cable. The cable broadcast will reach television audiences in the Seattle area and be rebroadcast on the ResearchChannel, thereby reaching direct broadcast satellite viewers across the country.
3. Streaming video of demonstrations, using IBM Content Manager VideoCharger high-quality 1.5 Mb/s multicast MPEG-1 and commodity-quality Webcast using RealNetworks technology. Details on how to access the streaming video broadcasts are at http://www.indiana.edu/~video/igrid2000/.

The INET 2000 conference will be held July 18-21. For more information, see the following websites:

• iGrid 2000 Video Services
  http://www.indiana.edu/~video/igrid2000/
• INET 2000/iGrid
  http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/igrid.shtml
• STAR TAP iGrid 2000 News
  http://www.startap.net/igrid2000/

 

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