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Internet2 Overview and Arts & Humanities Initiatives. New World Symphony Internet2 Symposium January, 2005. Internet2 Mission. Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
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Internet2 Overview and Arts & Humanities Initiatives New World Symphony Internet2 Symposium January, 2005
Internet2 Mission • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Additional Participation • 61 Internet2 Corporate Members • 41 Affiliate Members • Federal laboratories, regional networks, medical centers, performing arts institutions, etc. • 44 International Partners • K-12 schools, libraries, & museums
Altarum American Distance Education Consortium Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) CENIC CERN Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland Museum of Art Department of Commerce, Boulder Desert Research Institute EDUCAUSE Food and Drug Administration Howard Hughes Medical Institute Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS) Jet Propulsion Laboratories LaNet Manhattan School of Music MCNC Merit Network, Inc. MOREnet NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Marshall Space Flight Center National Institutes of Health National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Silver Spring National Science Foundation New World Symphony NYSERNet, Inc. Oak Ridge National Labs OARnet OneNet Internet2 Affiliate Members PeachNet Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Southwest Research Institute State University of New York System State University System of Florida Survivors of the Shoah-Visual History Foundation University Corporation for Atmospheric Research University of Missouri System University of North Carolina, General Administration
International Partnerships Current MoU Partners Developing Partnerships Related Efforts in Formation
Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) FCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET (Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Qatar Foundation Network (Qatar) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CEDIA (Ecuador) CLARA (Latin America and Caribbean) CNTI (Venezuela) CR2NET (Costa Rica) CUDI (Mexico) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) NG-NZ (New Zealand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) Internet2 International Partners
Streaming Media Indiana University Georgetown University Gallaudet University
New World Symphony • Michael Tilson Thomas photo by R. Andrew Lepley
University of Oklahoma • Felicia Moye
Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Music: The Bing Theater, University of Southern California, Oct 2002
Live transcontinental reading of Kenneth Koch's "Twenty Poems" Seven Internet2 campuses provided videoconferencing Transcontinental Poetry Reading:A Tribute to Kenneth Koch Poet Anne Waldman
The Miró Quartet: Live & Virtual University of Texas at Austin Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California
New Communities • Museum Community • Education • Conservation • Foreign Language Instruction • Less commonly taught languages • Archaeology Forum • Shared project planning • Shared imaging
Options to Consider What kind of highway do you need? • H.323 ~= 384 – 768 kbps • Mpeg1 ~= 1.5 mpbs • Mpeg2 ~= 4 – 16 mbps • DV ~= 30 mbps • HDTV ~= 19.2 – 270 mbps What kind street do you really need? • One way? (streaming, broadcast) • Two way? (interactive voice & video) • Many way? (more than 2 end points)
H.323, H.239, H.264 – what you need to know • H.323: works well for “talking heads” • H.239: people and content – integrates lecturer and presentation materials • H.264: MPEG4 part 10 – very efficient, high quality compression • Polycom: Industry leader • Viewstation FX: H.323 • VSX 7000: compatible with Viewstation • supports H.323 and H.264 • supports AES encryption • Internet2 Multiple Conferencing Unit: supports H.323, H.239, H.264
MPEG2 Education Production Cart MPEG2 codec: approx $8000 - $10,000 10/100 Switch: approx $150 or Gigabit Switch: approx $450 Camera: example;Sony PTZ (EVID30) -- approx $1000 Video switcher: approx $900 - $1500 Display monitor: approx $650 Video production monitor pair: $1000 - $1600 for pair Audio mixer: example;Mackie 14 channel Mic/line Mixer -- $530 Speaker pair: example JBL 10” BIAMPED -- $1000 for pair Directional Mic (two required): example; Shure SM57-LC Cardioid -- $80 - $150 UPS (un-interruptable power supply): approx $550
DVTS – Uncompressed audio and video • Low Latency • Low Cost • High bandwidth – 60 Mbps stream
Best Practices and Guides • http://arts.internet2.edu/files/Bing-Best-Practices.pdf • http://arts.internet2.edu/files/performance-capture(v09).pdf • http://arts.internet2.edu/files/digital-asset-management(v09).pdf
More Info ... • www.internet2.edu • arts.internet2.edu • adoyle@internet2.edu • (734) 352-7011