Applications

Digital Video

July 2001

Digital Video Equipment

Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production

http://apps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html

Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System

Worldwide video-conferencing service and collaborative environment Web-based system Averages 100 multipoint worldwide sessions each month

Caltech and CERN

http://www.vrvs.org/

ViDeNet

Video and Voice over IP environment Users communicate over IP phone or desktop videoconferencing systems A project of the Video Development Initiative

The Video Development Initiative

http://www.vide.net/

Megaconference

World’s largest videoconference Uses H.323 videoconferencing and a system of distributed MCU’s located around the world

Internet2 Digital Videoconferencing Group

http://www.mega-net.net/megaconference/

On-Demand Video

Allows for live, on-demand transmission of content Working towards a national Digital Video Network (I2-DVN)

Northwestern University, iCAIR (International Center for Advanced Internet Development)

http://www.icair.org/

ResearchChannel

Pioneering new methods for distributing live and on-demand content Building channels to facilitate the communication and research of information

ResearchChannel Consortium

http://www.researchchannel.com/

Public Television: Next Generation Interconnection Pilot

Uses broadband IP video connections Uses Internet2 networks instead of one-way satellite systems

University of Wisconsin and Washington State University

http://ra.doit.wisc.edu:8888/vid.html

Real-Time Tele-Operation of Remote Equipment

Computerized excavation backhoe Remotely operated, used in hazardous situations. Quality of Service is Guaranteed

North Carolina State University

http://CARL.ce.ncsu.edu/

Realistic, Life-Sized, 3D Tele-Immersion

Brings together geographically distant participants and shared virtual objects Tele-immersive recreation of office environment

Advanced Network & Services, Brown University, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/office/