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Doctors, Musicians Use High-Performance Networks at Conference

released October 3, 2000

Musicians and doctors from across the United States used Internet2® networks to demonstrate advanced applications at the NetWorld+Interop iLabs on the Georgia World Congress Center show floor in Atlanta last week.

Doctors from Ohio State University demonstrated surgical collaboration capabilities between an operating room at Ohio State University Medical Center and remote locations. High-performance networking enables sharing of bi-directional full-screen video and audio streams, as well as vital sign information such as heart rate and respiration rate. For more information, see http://apps.internet2.edu/demos99/surgery.htm.

Musicians from Oklahoma University, using MPEG-2 codes provided by Litton Network Access Systems, demonstrated live music lessons over the network. The better-than-VHS quality video and audio enabled by high-performance networking allows the student and instructor to work together on nuances of technique and sound in a way not possible over today's Internet. For more information about the demonstrations, see http://music.ou.edu/internet2/.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida's O.D.A. Lab (Optical Diagnostic and Applications Lab) uses high-performance networking, optical motion tracking and real-time, computer generated 3-D graphics to develop shared 3D visualizations of anatomic joint motions. Sharing animations of joints, such as knees, over the network enables remote training and teaching of medical experts, students and patients, For more information, see http://odalab.ucf.edu/internet2/.

Among the networks used in the demonstration was the nationwide Abilene network, an advanced backbone network that supports the development and deployment of the new applications being developed within the Internet2 community. Abilene connects regional network aggregation points, called gigaPoPs, to support the work of Internet2 universities as they develop advanced Internet applications. For more information about advanced networks, see http://www.internet2.edu/html/advancednets.html.

Led by over 170 US universities working with industry and government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, see http://www.internet2.edu/.

 

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