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Explore how GARR provides a wide range of services, catering to users from various domains such as music, dance, theater, architecture, and health science. This approach ensures equal rights and support for all users.
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Music, Dance & Others @ GARR New Users’ approach to Advanced Network Services Claudio Allocchio
“New” Network users • Music • education, performance, composition, ... • Theater • dance, drama, ... • Architecture, History • teleimmersion, rendering, ... • Cultural Heritage, Museums • interaction, databases, ... • Health Science • remote dignosis, surgery, enhanced reality, ... • ... Claudio Allocchio
Approaching Users • GARR does not differentiate among its users • same services availalbe to all • phycists, medical doctors, musicians, computer scientist, biologists, sociologists, librarians, dancers,... are all “GARR users”, with the same rights, same duties, same services, same support Claudio Allocchio
Handling Users • some GARR staff follows more closely ceratins users groups • users “groups” know a GARR staff reference person which they know better than others and supports them • GARR staff supporting a certains users group “translates” into their common terminology and understading the GARR services meaning, and collects from users their requirements Claudio Allocchio
Offering Users Services • “tell us how you work” approach • GARR offers the whole set of services to all users, but tries also to generate new services from users’ requirements • Services generated for one users’ group, become common services, adapted and adopted by other users • The same service is translated into specific users’ group “language” for adoptions and understanding Claudio Allocchio
main GARR “Users visible” Services • Security (GARR-CERT) • alerts, guidelines and best practices • Domain Names (GARR-NIC) • handling procedures for “it” and “eu” registrations • Certification Authority (GARR-CA) • issuing users’ personal certificates • EduRoam • mobility • AAI Federation (GARR-IDEM) • services unified access Claudio Allocchio
main GARR “Users visible” Services (cont.) • Mirror (GARR-Mirror) • packages distribution • Usenet News (GARR-News) • news feeds and news uploads • Vconf, and audio/video services (H)DVTS, ... • Virtual Congress Centre, high end interactive services • GARR.TV • R&E broadcasting channel Claudio Allocchio
main GARR “Users invisible” Services • Dedicated circuits/VPNs • Guarteed Bandwidth (QoS) • Multicast • ... Claudio Allocchio
Users’ perspective of audio/video service • Music • MasterClasses, remote performances, distributed performances • Theater • distributed performances, enhanced playspace • Architecture, History • virtual presence • Cultural Heritage, Museums • virtual close-up interactions • Health Science • remote real-time surgery and enhanced reality, ... Claudio Allocchio
Some History - How it all started • 2001: WIDE releases DVTS • GARR adopts it as a nice tool for network performance testing/loading • 2002: at Jokoyama IETF DVTS is used to broadcast sessions on the LAN to the meeting foyer • ... impressive quality for a set of bad looking speakers! • 2003: Internet2 and GARR starts experiments with it over “domestic” WAN • it works, but for which users? • 2005: GARR and Internet2 try a transatlantic DVTS • demo at GARR 05 Users’ Conference boost interest in italian music education community Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2005 / 2006: GARR-Internet2-New World Symphony MasterClasses • http://www.garr.it/conf_05/ram/Violista.ram Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2006 and 2007: “Italian Spring in Japan” Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2007: UbiquiLab • http://ubiquilab.ning.com/video/1264588:Video:1262 Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2007: Distributed e-music composition Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2007 and 2008: telesurgery at IRCCS workshop Claudio Allocchio
Examples from the past • 2008: Ancient Instruments reconstruction via Grids Claudio Allocchio
Conclusions • GARR does not operate a “strict” users’ segmentations and does not have specific groups portfolios. • GARR adapts services and their understanding to users environment. • GARR tries to create new services crossing users’ groups boundaries, and drawing from users’ common practices in their “traditional” enrironment. Claudio Allocchio
Questions? Thank you! Claudio Allocchio