Transcript Recommending a Strategy

Internet2 Applications
Ted Hanss
Director, Applications Development
CSG
21 September 2000
Challenge
Need broader applications deployment
Progress demonstrated through:
• Faculty success stories
• Increased network utilization
Problems
The network is still hard to use
• Need an “end to end” support
infrastructure
• Need easy-to-use applications
– Discipline-specific
– Broad-based
Applications Area Updates
Added “Arts & Humanities” focus in Aug.
• Joins health sciences as discipline
specific focus areas
Considering other areas:
• Remote
instrumentation
• High energy
physics
• Astronomy
Digital Video Applications
Videoconferencing service
• Most likely H.323 initially at core
• Integration work with multicast-based
apps, QuickTime, MPEG1/2, …
• Middleware discussions starting
• Tools development for measurement
• White paper shared at fall I2 meeting
• Decision on service description and
rollout by March member meeting
Digital Video Applications
Webcasting services
• Cisco IP/TV
• Real
Will join loaner pool
• apps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html
Digital Video Applications
MPEG2-based services
• Continuing with Litton loaner systems
• Adding other systems
(Optivision, Minerva)
• Concerned about
interoperability
Digital Video Applications
Access Grid
• www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/
Digital Video Applications
DV over Firewire Project
• Joint development effort
• Objective: support high quality
videoconferencing
– Point to point at first
– Commodity PC, DV camera, PCI card
(about $3K per unit)
– Linux and W2K
Digital Video Applications
Web-based video editing
• Uses remote server
• Timeline editing, image cropping
• Outputs in a number of different formats
Developed by Biology Department at
Cambridge
Internet2 Content Guide
Will be proposed at fall member meeting
Way of publicizing content appropriate to
Internet2-attached sites
Will address audio & video (live and ondemand), data files, etc.
Will include search service based on a
metadata harvesting service (joint with DLF)
Will include a channel published into
campus portals