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The Internet2 Commons

Jonathan TymanTyman@internet2.edu

John KrienkeCheryl Munn-FreemanOSU/OARnet

Bob DixonMegan TroyerGabe Moulton

Commons Management Team

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The Internet2 Commons Mission

Promote and facilitate remote collaboration throughout the Internet2 research and education community by means of innovative and integrated, standards-based Internet technologies.

Build on useful technologies to create collaboration services that are: sustainable, scalable, affordable.

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DVI Vision of the Commons

VRVS

Presence, IM

Whiteboard

Data Sharing

Voice over IP

H.323…

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MPEG2

Voice &

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Tools

Collab

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Application Sharing

DVTS, HD

SIP

john k2:

Jonathan: Right now WAVE3 is the only Vendor listed as such on this slide…are we in danger of not mentioning our current partners, Polycom and Radvision by lising Wave3 as an independent technology? What about ConferenceXP for instance? Wave3 could fit under SIP and also under Collaboration Tools……I vote for its (Wave3’s) removal, with a verbal mention.

john k2:

Jonathan: Right now WAVE3 is the only Vendor listed as such on this slide…are we in danger of not mentioning our current partners, Polycom and Radvision by lising Wave3 as an independent technology? What about ConferenceXP for instance? Wave3 could fit under SIP and also under Collaboration Tools……I vote for its (Wave3’s) removal, with a verbal mention.

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The Internet2 Commons Videoconferencing Service

Goals:•Accelerate adoption of Remote Collaboration

•Respond to member input•Promote open-standards•Make it sustainable, scalable, and affordable

The mission of the Internet2 Commons is to promote and facilitate remote collaboration throughout the Internet2 research and education community by means of standards-based, integrated Internet technologies.

• Make it EASY for the user• Train 100+ site coordinators• Make it all work…for 10cents/port minute…

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H.323 Multipoint Videoconferencing

Commons H.323 service offers:mature technology, accepted standards, multiple vendors, installed base

•Advanced features in multiple MCUs•Ad hoc/scheduled conferencing •Streaming/archiving of conference•Display options galore•Firewall traversal•Diagnostic tools, and… •Help! when you need it…and before.

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Next steps for the Commons

VRVS –

about Communities…

…and bringing them together tcyun

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Communities and Technologies VRVS

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VRVS

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Communities and Technologies Access Grid

Access Grid Access Grid

• Vic.rat• Groups• venues

sense of common place

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Communities and Technologies Access Grid

Access Grid – sharing spaces

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Communities and Technologies MPEG2

•Quality Videoconferencing

•Low latency•Mature•Free clients•P2P or•Multicast

Michael Tilson Thomas, NWS - Ann Doyle

photo by R. Andrew Lepley

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H.323 via the Internet2 Commons (Interactive 768k)       

VBrick Appliance (Multicast 6MB)       

HD streaming MPEG2 (20MB)       

VBrick Stream Player (Multicast 5MB)       

Windows Media (Unicast 512k and 3Mb)       

inSORS Access Grid (Multicast)       

Quicktime (Multicast)

DVTS (30mbps)

NID Innovative Integration of Internet Technologies

www.internet2.edu