HD video projects July 2005 AARNet Andrew Howard - AARNet Coordinating Engineer Advanced Communications Services and International Liaison

Delivering Australian Research and Education to the nation and the world

Develop and deploy advanced media delivery systems capable of utilising the high capacity networks connecting Australian Universities, research and other related organisations Create advanced services such as Voice and Video over IP, Access Grids, Content Streaming, Storage and Indexing and HD video over IP based on standard and bespoke software and hardware. What we do …

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd4 Outline 1.Streaming National Science and Education 2.Credits 3.Supercomputing The Press Release 5.Reducing the Cost

Streaming National Science and Education

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd6 ResearchChannel Australia On-demand and multiple streamed video channels delivered using the AARNet3 network –National Science Festival –Parliamentary TV –ABC Multichannel service (ABC 2) –AARNet Training material –Recordings of presentations and conferences –Contributed material –Sponsored material –Student and special interest radio and television stations National media storage and streaming service for AARNet members and related organisations

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd7 Why are we so interested in multimedia ? Geography Past experiences point the way Astronomical events broadcast in collaboration with CSIRO to a global audience in 2002 and 2003 using Telstra streaming infrastructure –Solar Eclipse from Ceduna20,000 viewers –Transit of Venus40,000 viewers Size of the Internet doubled between events Telstra streaming infrastructure collapsed under load Requests from AARNet members to provide a storage and streaming solution

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd8 World Population

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd9 APAN Regional Groups

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd10 Delivering Australian content to the region

Credits

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd12 Partners University of Washington Pacific Wave AARNet NOC

Supercomputing 2004

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd14 The Plan Uncompressed High Definition video running live at 1.5Gbs between Canberra, Seattle and Pittsburgh for 4 days Serious planning begins 11-Oct-2004 for an 8 th to 11 th Nov 2004 event

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd15 The Logistics Engineer a 10Gb light path between the AARNet Canberra office and Pacific Wave (Seattle) using the northern segment of SXTransport Construct a temporary TV studio and set –Lighting –Audio –HD equipment –Minimise daily “film industry” rental rates Encoding and Decoding systems Content

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd16 10Gb Light path - Australia

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd17 10Gb Light path - TransPacific

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd18 10Gb Light path - Fibre Start connecting fibres –Canberra ICON – Cisco 6509 at AARNet office to secondary ACT PoP TransACT –ACT PoP to Sydney GigaPoP –Sydney GigaPop to Seattle via northern segment of SXTransport –Seattle to Pittsburgh First use of SXTransport path

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd19 10Gb Light path - Equipment Cisco 6509 transported to Canberra office and setup to route to Procket 8810 in Sydney Procket 8810 shipped to PacificWave in Seattle to act as the termination point for Northern SX circuit –Procket held in transit due to customs clearance paperwork –Heroic effort by Jan Evelith, Bill Marr and other PacificWave staff to clear equipment from customs and install in Seattle –Activated 24 hours before “go live” time

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd20 TV studio

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd21 TV studio

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd22 Encoding and Decoding systems Intel dual Xeon PCI-Express bus systems 10Gb network cards not available so dual port Intel GbE adaptors used AJA Xena HD capture and display card –HD-SDI used to connect camera and displays Capture and display software by Matt University of Washington

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd23 Content How do you fill 4 days of live TV ?

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd24 Content The usual suspects

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd25 Content Representatives from our Government funding agency DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training)

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd26 Content

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd27 Content – The B-roll

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd28 The view from Pittsburgh

The Press Release

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd30 Super Computing 2004 Conference At the exhibition floor of the Pittsburgh SC 2004 conference, AARNet and ResearchChannel demonstrated high definition real-time video interaction between Canberra Australia, Seattle and Pittsburgh ~2million pixels per frame; 60 frames per second interleaved; using 1.4Gbps for each stream; video quality amazing During the 30 hours of demonstration, 20 Terabytes of data were transmitted in each direction No custom equipment involved, all off-the-shelf components Equivalent to one DVD being transmitted under the Pacific in both directions every seven seconds

Reducing the cost

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd32 Reducing the Cost Since the SC04 event the cost of HD capture equipment has fallen significantly HDV Blackmagic Design

© 2005, AARNet Pty Ltd33 Conclusion Don't try this at home More time probably wouldn't have helped Customs clearing equipment always takes more time and paperwork than you anticipate Filling days of airtime is really difficult International co-operation and people networks are essential for achieving events like this Thanks for your time

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