1. Internet2 Members Meeting Spring 2002 Getting the Most Out of International Connectivity

2. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Top 10 business school Ranked #5 (Business Week) Ranked #6 (U.S. News and World Report) Global reach Global Executive MBA program Fuqua School of Business - Europe Relationships in Asia and South America Innovation, leadership Educating thoughtful business leaders, worldwide

3. Background Needed to expand global reach through physical presence in Europe Maintain daily operations Marketing Planning Residency support Ensure that new campus feels like it is a part of Fuqua as opposed to a “satellite”

4. Timeline October 1999Cross-continent press conference re: Fuqua School of Business - Europe and plans to locate in Frankfurt, Germany May 2000Opening of offices in Frankfurt August 2000Launch of first Cross Continent MBA class November 2000Telepresence environment online December 2001Telepresence across I2/DFN operational

5. Telepresence High-performance videoconferencing Life-size images Realistic Eye-to-eye contact across participants

6. Value/Use of Telepresence for virtual meetings Day-to-day meetings can occur by simply walking into a room Differences between physical meetings 2 rooms instead of 1 Time zone gap Reduced travel Spontaneous, on-demand meetings Global “connectedness”

7. Fuqua’s Global Conference System Telepresence Environment Telepresence environments/arrays Codec’s Additional audio/video electronics Internet2 access (via Duke University connection) in Durham, NC DFN access in Frankfurt, Germany

8. Partnerships and Team Members Nortel Networks TeleSuite Corporation Litton Network Access Systems Star Valley Solutions Internet2 DFN

9. Views of the GCS

10. Global Conference System Network

11. Current use at Duke/Fuqua Meetings Tutoring Corporate relationships Student projects

12. Future uses Expanded corporate relationship support Career placement services Faculty research and collaboration

13. Telepresence vs. videoconferencing Technology is transparent Talk/interaction is with people not screen or camera Much higher bandwidth required

14. Performance metrics and parameters Bandwidth requirement (MPEG-2) Latency Full-duplex Error rates

15. GCS Performance Graph Max In:27.4 Mb/s (2.7%) Average In:2743.1 kb/s (0.3%) Current In:2023.1 kb/s (0.2%) Max Out:27.4 Mb/s (2.7%) Average Out:4895.7 kb/s (0.5%) Current Out:1102.4 kb/s (0.1%)

16. Technical challenges Bandwidth Requirements Currently @ 12Mbps (Each Codec) QOS Security / Encryption Multicast / Unicast

17. Implications Collaboration Research Business partnerships Travel Connectedness Teaching

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