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ResearchChannel: Think Forward

Explore the collaborative efforts of top universities and research institutions sharing knowledge and cutting-edge developments through advanced media distribution. Discover projects advancing networking technologies and interactive multimedia. Engage with the global intellectual community and stay ahead on innovations.

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ResearchChannel: Think Forward

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  1. ResearchChannel:Think Forward Michael Wellings, Director, Engineering APAN Singapore 2006 Innovations in Interactive HD Video Over High-Bandwidth NetworksJuly 18, 2006

  2. What Is ResearchChannel? • As a consortium of universities and research institutions, we are an intellectual community that makes knowledge available to all by sharing our developments, insights and discoveries with a global audience. • We bring together ideas from the world’s premier institutions and disseminate those ideas to the public directly. • We engage our audience in the research process by communicating developments as they unfold. • We experiment with technology to enable alternative, leading-edge exchanges of our resources. • We are committed to looking forward, both in terms of our technological innovation and our continual diversification and expansion of resources for our audience.

  3. Pioneering Technology Innovations • To advance global networking technologies • To explore new methods of media distribution and sharing for teaching learning and research • To further multidisciplinary multinational scientific collaboration • Because the consortium is uniquely qualified to do so

  4. Our Consortium ofUniversity Participants Arizona State University California State College, Monterey Bay Duke University George Mason University Indiana University, School of Informatics Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts Institute of Technology National University of Singapore New York University Pennsylvania State University Rice University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Stanford University Medical Center Texas A&M University Tulane University, Freeman School of Business Universidad de Puerto Rico Universidade de São Paulo University of Alaska - Fairbanks University of Chicago University of Hawaii University of Kentucky University of Maryland University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison Virginia Tech Yale University

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

  6. OurNewest Participants

  7. OurMulti-platform Distribution Cable and Satellite Television DishNetwork satellite system • 11.4 million homes Cable systems • 10.3 million homes • Streaming Worldwide • Video on demand • Broadband and multiple bit rate

  8. ResearchChannel Distribution

  9. U.S. Television Distribution 21.7 million households • DishNetwork satellite system • 11.5 million homes • Cable systems • 10.2 million homes • 35 states

  10. Innovations in Technology

  11. Why? • To advance global networking technologies • To explore new methods of media distribution and sharing for teaching learning and research • To further multidisciplinary multinational scientific collaboration • Because the consortium is uniquely qualified to do so

  12. On the Leading Edge • ResearchChannel is a collaboration among experts in Internet networking, storage/search infrastructure development, emerging streaming media and interactive technologies, digital television engineering, and video production.

  13. Projects • First Internet HDTV transmission - iHDTV • Digital Asset Management System Development - DigitalWell • Automation of multiple format encoding • Webcasting (SD and HD over IP in multiple formats) • Streaming to handheld devices • ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group

  14. Advanced Media Delivery Methods • “Big Video” • HD Multiple Unicast • HD Multicast • SD Multicast • SD Multiple Unicast • WMV VOD • HD VOD • “small video” • Enhanced Phone unicast delivery • “Podcasting” • AUP of R&E networks (NLR, for example) can make 10gige Lambdas available • The Commodity Internet will catch up

  15. Advanced on-line Services • 2500 hours of content on the web in multiple formats: • MPEG2 @ 5.6mbps • WMV 1300mbps • WMV multi-resolution feed • Pocket-video files being created • Programming is encoded automatically and pushed to the web • When the show first airs on the channel, the encoded VOD version is available on the web • Google downloads of ResearchChannel programming available soon

  16. iHDTV Software Suite • iHDTV Explained • iHD1500 • iHD270 • HD to the Desktop • WindowsXP-based application suite • Released as Open Source as of April 24th, 2006 • Announcement at Internet2 Spring Member Meeting

  17. iHDTV Explained • iHD1500 • Uncompressed SMPTE 292M 4:2:2 • Data rate total approx 1.5 gbps • Requires: • high-end HD capture cards • PCI Express platforms • Windows XP • 2 x gige network connection • Jumbo frame transport and routing

  18. iHDTV Explained • iHD270 (first introduced aug 99) • Sony HDCamtm compression • SDTI data format 270mbps • AJA Xena I/O • Requires: • AJA Xena-HD capture cards • Dual Processor P4 • Windows XP • Sony HDCam Hardware encoder/decoder • Gige network connection

  19. 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, capture and editing using SRB (Storage Resource Broker)

  20. iGRID 2005 San Diego • USA118: Global N-Way Interactive HD • USA119: 20,000 Terabits under the sea

  21. iGrid DemonstrationUSA118: Global N-Way Interactive HD

  22. Technology Support

  23. iGRID 05 – USA118 • Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego • Enhanced HD interactive - USA118: Global N-Way Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing • Remote sites: • Pacific Northwest Gigapop - University of Washington - Seattle • The WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) Project - Tokyo • University of Wisconsin - Madison • University of Michigan – Ann Arbor • SURFnet - Amsterdam

  24. iGRID 05 – USA118 • Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego • Remote site equipment: • 2 RX iHD1500 Hosts (multicast from iGRID) • 1 TX iHD1500 Client (unicast to iGRID) • Central site equipment: • 6 RX iHD1500 Clients • 2 TX iHD1500 Hosts (Multicast) • Evertz VIP-12 HD Video Tile Generator • Multichannel mix-minus audio system

  25. iGRID 05 – USA118 • iHD500 – first demonstrated at SuperComputing 2004 • Real-time HD communication: Australia and Seattle > Pittsburgh @ 1.5gbps each direction • At that time relatively high latency (1500ms RT) • 500ms hardware/software one-way • 250ms network delay one-way

  26. iGRID USA 118 Network Diagram

  27. iGRID USA 118

  28. iGRID USA 118

  29. iGRID 05 – USA119 • Sept 2005 - iGrid San Diego • First ever live HD/ip from a ship at sea to viewers on shore • Ku-Band equipment upgrade to SeaTel antenna • Careful RF engineering to design satellite Link-Budget • Real-time MPEG-2 MP@HL encoding • Ip gateway • Satellite modem 20mbps

  30. Internet HDTV: VISIONS’05

  31. iGRID USA 119

  32. iGRID USA 119 Network

  33. iHD1500 application • SMPTE 292M/ip • ~1.5gbps • 1080-60i HD video with multiplexed audio • ResearchChannel partner Intel PCE-Express 3.4GHz Dual Xeon platforms • ResearchChannel partner AJA Video Systems supplied initial round of Xena-HD capture boards

  34. iHD1500 application Latency about 4 frames end to end plus network delay • 4 frames=133ms or ~ 1/7 sec • Network delay Australia>Philadelphia ~ 250ms • Satellite latency about 250ms per hop • H.323 devices about 220ms plus network delay • No significant delay in video equipment

  35. Software Enhancements • iHD1500 Enhancements: • tile display generated in software • Audio mixing in software • Audio mix-minus in software • Video switching in software

  36. iHD-X: Open Source Initiative • iHDTV Open Source Group • Launched Spring quarter 2006 • iHDTV Trusted Partners Group formed • Enhancement planed as first step • Wide deployment desired • Multicast tunnel nodes • Interoperability with other HD systems an important goal

  37. High Definition Video to the Desktop FORMATS MPEG2 MP@HL WMV-HD H.264/AVC/MPEG4 Part 10 HDV (MPEG2 MP@H14) PLAYERS VLC WM9/10 QuickTime/MPEG4 VLC

  38. Advanced Delivery Methods • The content is important, not the delivery method • We will use what works best for the application • Quality will scale to match the receiving device • Multiple delivery methods will be used • Wired delivery for stationary receivers • Non-wired delivery for mobile devices • As high speed connectivity proliferates, over-the-air transmission becomes less important for stationary receivers • The multiple use, highly connected devices in the home receive all content over high speed network connections using several forms of transport media • Ip over cable, fiber, copper, RF • CATV operators will migrate to an all-IP delivery scheme and broadcasters will be hard-pressed to compete • Traditional Broadcasting’s last stand will be rural areas in advance of expanding IP networks

  39. Advanced Delivery Methods It took about a year for cable modems downstream speeds to increase from 2mbps to 8mbps in the Seattle area • High bandwidth connectivity means non-linear viewing of multi-res content which will change the face of media delivery • Global reach • Old Model: • Broadcast in your own geographic area • Compete with local broadcasters and print media • New Model: • “X-cast” (Podcast, multicast, unicast etc) to the world and become part of an immense soup of content • Compete with everyone for a small slice of a universal market

  40. ResearchChannel Advanced on-line Services • ResearchChannel satellite feed on the network • 233.0.73.29 MPEG2@ 3.2mbps • Live 1080i HD video of Mt Rainier • 233.0.73.26 MPEG2 MP@HL @ 20mbps • Live 720p HD video of Mt Rainier http://www.researchchannel.org/tech/desktopclients.asp • HD VOD 720p WMV-HD http://www.researchchannel.org/visions05/hdpresentation.asp • HD VOD 1080i MPEG2 ML@HL http://www.researchchannel.org/tech/desktophdsamples.asp • KEXP-FM Audio-on-demand; uncompressed audio webcasting http://www.kexp.org

  41. ResearchChannel Advanced on-line Services • Successful demonstration home delivery of WMV-HD@720p over CATV Modems • Developing VOD archive for oceanographic HD video • KEXP-FM on-line services have a world-wide audience that equals Seattle broadcast listener numbers

  42. ResearchChannel Advanced on-line Services Making Television History Visions ’05 - Emmy Award Nominee First-ever live HD 1080i video/IP streamed around the world • SMPTE 292M multicast and unicast @ 1.5gbps • MPEG 2 MP@HL multicast • WMV-HD multicast with Unicast automatic failover

  43. Internet HDTV: VISIONS’05

  44. For More Information • www.researchchannel.org • inquires: info@researchchannel.org Michael Wellings Director, Engineering wellings@researchchannel.org

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