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ResearchChannel. Amy Philipson Asst Vice Provost, Executive Director Jim DeRoest Director, Streaming Media Technologies Michael Wellings Director, TV Engineering. The ResearchChannel Consortium.

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  1. ResearchChannel Amy Philipson Asst Vice Provost, Executive Director Jim DeRoestDirector, Streaming Media Technologies Michael Wellings Director, TV Engineering

  2. The ResearchChannel Consortium • An intellectual community, we make knowledge available to all by sharing our developments,insights and discoveries with a global audience. • We bring together ideas from many of the world’s premier academic and research institutions and disseminate those ideas to the public directly,without interference. • We are committed to technological innovation toenable leading-edge exchanges of our resources. • Knowledge transfer via Television and VoD capitalizing on international next generation networks

  3. Consortium Members A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University Universidad de Puerto Rico California State University, Sacramento Universidade de São Paulo Duke University University of Alaska - Fairbanks George Mason University University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University University of Hawaii Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Maryland National University of Singapore University of Michigan New York University University of Pennsylvania Oregon State University University of Southern California Pennsylvania State University University of Virginia Rice University University of Washington Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University of Wisconsin-Madison Stanford University Medical Center Virginia Tech Texas A&M University Yale University Tufts University

  4. Consortium Members AARNet National Academy of Engineering Advanced Network Forum National Academy of Sciences AJA Video Systems Inc. National Institute of Nursing CENIC National Institute of Standards and Technology Fujinon National Institutes of Health Howard Hughes Medical Institute National Library of Medicine IBM Corporation National Science Foundation Intel Corporation National Sea Grant College Program Internet2 Pacific Northwest Gigapop Johnson & Johnson Poznañ Supercomputing and Networking Center Library of Congress R1edu.org Microsoft Research SURFnet National Academies Vulcan Northwest Inc. Wisconsin Public Television

  5. U.S. Television Distribution 21.7 million households • DishNetwork satellite system • 11.5 million homes • Cable systems • 10.2 million homes • 35 states • Worldwide Internet audience

  6. Webcast & MulticastAll broadcasts are webcast 24/7, in audio and three video bandwidths (modem, dsl and cable). MPEG2 multicast at 3mpbs & DV at 30mbps.Video On DemandResearchChannel offers a searchable database of over 1500 titles, viewable at modem, dsl, cable and MPEG2 bandwidths. Internet Distribution

  7. New Distribution Initiatives:Cable VOD • Ideally suited to VOD platform • Charter Communications agreement adds2 million VOD subscribers • Launch first quarter 2006 with 15 titles per month • Google Video, Open Media Network

  8. DigitalWell: Grid EnabledDigital Asset Management Project Focus • Easy way to acquire, collect, classify, store ,deliver large collections of digital media over IP networks. • Proxy for any type of large data sets but initially focused on video and audio assets – content agnostic • Includes broadcast/Internet Integration • Exploits next generation networking to ensure high quality – Deliver Realism • Easy-to-use Web services-based interface compatible with current Web browsers and computing platforms. • Uses pluggable authentication to ensure security and control access to collections.  • Scalable architecture ensures that collections can be built, accessed, searched and shared between disparate networked communities.  • D-Lib/Data Grid Interoperation via SRB and OAI for content and metadata sharing.. • Middleware – modular integration model • Metadata, DRM/IP, AAI, WSAPI, Grid • Automation – End to End • Capture, Describe, Preserve, Deliver

  9. Grid Enabled Digital Broadcast Acquisition Tape Ingest Dub Television Scheduling Broadcast Services Encoding Captioning Services Final Cut Edit Suites DigitalWell SRB TSM Metadata Storage Tape/Disk Services Streaming VoD Services Content Distribution Services Manage Digital Essence Edit, Transcode, … Automate Metadata Device Acquisition MXF, AAF, SMPTE, MPEG7,… Archive/Preservation Re-purpose, Footage, … Service Flows

  10. Near-line Archive 1st Tier Disk Cache Data Grid Storage Abstraction SRB Stage Disk Cache Near-line Archive 1st Tier Disk Cache Data Grid Storage Abstraction SRB Stage Disk Cache

  11. Data Grid - Digital Library Integration • SRB and Digital Libraries • Conduit for sharing metadata and/or content in a federation • Platform for building a preservation environment • D-Libs using or considering SRB • MIT D-Space - +120 sites • Cornell Fedora – +30 sites • ResearchChannel DigitalWell • UCSD TV • CDL • Data Grids • WUNGrid • PRAGMA Grid

  12. SC’05 DigitalWell SRB Data Grid Diagram – HD Collaborative Video Demonstration

  13. DigitalWell Collections Existing, Ongoing, New … • +2100 hrs ResearchChannel, UWTV • +180 Ocean Science uncompressed HD • Microsoft Research Lecture Series • Multi-University Research Library • Forestry Old Growth Satellite Imagery • Deep Space Astronomy – WUNGrid Project • KEXP Radio Live Broadcasts, In Studio Sessions • +15,000 hrs Ethnomusicology • Research Instructional Medical Datasets • UW Library Collections

  14. Delivering RealismiHDTV:Internet High Definition Television • iHDTV Platforms Explained • iHD1500 • iHD270 • iHD-Desktop

  15. iHDTV Explained • iHD1500 • Uncompressed SMPTE 292M 4:2:2 • Video format 1080i/60 10bit • Data rate approx 1.5 gbps • Requires: • high-end HD capture cards • Dual 1 Gige NICS • PCI Express PCs • Windows XP

  16. iHD1500 application Latency about 4 frames end to end plus network delay • 4 frames=133ms or ~ 1/7 sec • Network delay significant (Australia>Philadelphia ~ 250ms) • Satellite latency about 250ms per hop • H.323 devices about 230ms plus network delay • No significant delay in video equipment

  17. SC’05 and the iHD1500 application

  18. Software Enhancements • iHD1500 Enhancements @ SC ‘05: • tile display generated in software • Audio mixing in software • Audio mix-minus in software • Video switching in software • SC’05 N-Way iHD1500 servers now available 24x7 • Production uncompressed iHD video conferencing service • Part of HD video laboratory at University of Washington • Permanent connection via Pacific NW GigaPOP

  19. iHD1500 Software

  20. iHDTV Explained • iHD270 (first demonstrated Aug 99) • Sony HDCamtm compression • SDTI data format @270mbps • AJA Xena I/O (Windows version of AJA-Kona) • Requires: • AJA Xena-HD capture cards • Dual Processor P4 • Windows XP • Sony HDCam Hardware encoder/decoder

  21. High Definition Video to the Desktop FORMATS MPEG2 MP@HL WMV-HD/VC-1 (720p/1080i) H.264, AVC, MPEG-4 HDV (720p/1080i) PLAYERS VLC WM9/10/11 QuickTime/MPEG-4 VLC iHD-Desktop

  22. iHDTV: Recent Demonstrations • Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego • Enhanced HD interactive - USA118: Global N-Way Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing • Underwater research using HD from SS Thompson – USA119: 20,000 Terabits Under the Sea • Nov 2005 - SC05 Seattle • Enhanced HD Interactive Conferencing/HD Storage and capture using SRB (Storage Resource Broker)

  23. iGRID 05 – USA119 – “Visions ’05” • Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego • First ever live HD/ip from a ship at sea to viewers on shore • Ku-Band equipment upgrade to on-board uplink antenna • Careful RF engineering to design satellite link-budget • Real-time MPEG-2 MP@HL encoding • Ip gateway • Satellite modem 13 mbps on-station at the Endeavour research site 200 miles offshore

  24. Visions ‘05 Location – “Endeavour”

  25. iGRID USA 119 Network

  26. Visions ’05 Follow on goals • Capture all HD footage to disk in SDTI / HDCam ™ and uncompressed SMPTE 292M formats • Create Metadata engine for scientific annotation • Use DigitalWell for storage and retrieval • Make available to researchers worldwide as a collaborative effort A demonstration project is underway involving several hours of video

  27. Bringing Science to your Desktop“Big Networks for Big Science” Using the iHDTV software suite ResearchChannel can deliver realism • Uncompressed HD delivery for collaborative environments • Uncompressed HD for demanding visual applications • Visions ’05 • Neptune • The Looking Project • Others • Compressed HD in several formats for desktop and home delivery • WMV-HD/VC-1 • MPEG2 MP@HL • MPEG4 Part 10/H.264/AVC

  28. Open Source: Trusted Partnership iHDTV, DigitalWell • First quarter 2006 • Trusted partnership development group • Soliciting requirements and partners • More information: info@researchchannel.org http://www.researchchannel.org deroest@researchchannel.org wellings@researchchannel.org

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