IMTC Report

1. IMTC Report Presented by: Carol Mothershead, DEG Chris Alberts, MCA Network Consultants

2. Agenda Overview of IMTC and Forum Overview of Presentations Questions

3. What is IMTC? International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium Non-profit organization Administered by Global Inventures in San Ramon, CA www.imtc.org

4. IMTC History Formed in September 1994 Merger of The Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards, Inc. and the Multimedia Communications Community of Interest. IMTC merged in 1995 with the Personal Conferencing Workgroup, Inc.

5. IMTC Mission Promote and facilitate the development and use of interoperable, real-time, Multimedia Telecommunication products and services, based on open international standards.

6. IMTC Goals Promote standards for real-time, rich media communications Identify obstacles to utilization of multimedia products and services Develop and submit interoperability recommendations to official standards bodies Initiate interoperability test sessions Educate business and consumer communities

7. IMTC Membership 81 International members Mostly manufacturers, vendors and service providers Organization focusing on increasing end user membership and encouraging service provider participation

8. IMTC Membership Three membership Levels Full H.323 Forum Only Non-profit/University

9. State of Wisconsin IMTC Membership Serve on H.323 Forum Leadership Committee and can participate in other H.323 activities Participate in Activity Groups Attend forums and interoperability events including Winter Inter-Operability Testing (next one in France!) Obtain IMTC documents

10. What Does IMTC Do? Hosts events throughout the world: Interoperability testing events Demonstrations Forums On line videoconferences

11. IMTC Report Review Presentations Review Panel Discussions Observations Questions as you have them

12. The “Stats” 36 Presentations, 5 panel discussions, 2 customer presentations, 3 live demos Speakers from India, France, Japan, Isreal, Germany, Switzerland, US, UK, etc. Presentations were designed mostly for engineers, as updates

13. Presentations H.323 means IP video, doesn’t it? Multimedia over Packet Networks (H.323) Standards reports and WG, AG updates Several Presentations on Mobile Networks

14. IP Network Telepresence wall: Illustration 600 km

15. Presentations H.323 means IP video, doesn’t it? Multimedia over Packet Networks (H.323) Standards and WG, AG updates Several Presentations on Mobile Networks Instant Messaging

16. Presentations, Customers Two Customer Presentations US Trust/Charles Schwab Imperial County (Education)

17. Presentations, US Trust US Trust Presentation Highlights Education Interoperability Support

18. Presentation, Imperial County • Vision • Interactive videoconferencing in every classroom • We’re not interested in creating videoconferencing rooms, but rather making every room capable of videoconferencing!

19. Presentations, Imperial County Realizing the Vision • Equipment Cost • Infrastructure • A single network implementation • Usage Costs • Flexibility

20. Presentations, Imperial County Applications • Virtual Field Trips • Professional Development • Keynote Addresses • Special Teacher Training

21. Presentation, Avistar Obstacles To Video Adoption • Complicated/Requires technical support • Lacks intuitive integration of basic video applications • Low “Presence”/Quality • Poor call reliability • Expensive • Not integrated into normal workflow • Result: Low daily usage => Not adopted

22. Presentation, Avistar • IP Video Challenge: High bit-rate, real-time data on “best efforts” IP networks • Latency • Jitter • Bandwidth • Quality of Service • Firewalls • Ready in the WAN

23. Sweet Spot of Video Collaboration High Quality at Scale High Reliability Low Cost Of Ownership Sweet Spot = Transformational video collaboration

24. Essentials: quality at scale Quality at Scale Reliability Cost Of Ownership • TV-quality video is essential for natural interaction • 30 frames/sec • Low latency • Synchrony of audio/video

25. Email ($60) Cost of Ownership Dropping Quality at Scale Reliability Cost Of Ownership

26. Essentials: reliability Telephone 99.999% Data networks 99.99% Ethernet 100 Quality at Scale Desktop Video*** 99.5% (IP Network ) Reliability Cost Of Ownership 95 Cell Phone* 95.9% Desktop Video*** 94.3% (ISDN network) % Reliability 90 Room Video Conferencing** 65 - 85% 85 *UK Office of Telecom-munications study of 4 major carriers **Anecdotal data *** Analysis of 990,802 calls 80 10 20 30 40 50 100 Years since inception

27. Panel Discussions • What factors will contribute to the adoption of H.323, specifically video? • Ease of Use • Cost per desktop/too expensive • Ease of administration • Reliability • Need a ‘killer app’

28. Panel Discussions • Why is a new technology adopted? • Convenience, Cost, New functionality, Speed (faster), Hype, Legislation • Need, desire, fear • Access, Authorization, Authentication, Administration • Quantifiable value, Social inclusion/exclusion • Generational change, No other way

29. Demonstrations • The Good, the Bad and the ? • IP desktop to desktop looked good • DoKoMo (Japan) ? • Four party IP video session on H.323 panel

30. Questions? • Questions? • Thank you for your attention!