Internet2 Commons Video and Collaboration Services Bob Dixon Megan Troyer Jonathan Tyman

Recent Video Events Supported by the Internet2 Commons Bob Dixon OARnet and Ohio State University Internet2 Spring Meeting - April 24, 2007, Washington DC

Recent Video Events Supported by the Internet2 Commons Megaconference VIII Collaboranza II ! Gigaconference II Megaconference Junior IV Rutgers Internet2 Day ViDe Conference

Megaconference VIII November 6, Everywhere! World’s Largest Internet Video Conference 360 Locations Worldwide; 5000 People 25 Countries on 5 Continents 12 Hours long; all time zones 26 MCUs cascaded together

Megaconference VIII (cont) 26 Interactions (formerly Presentations) 17 Door Prizes 8 Vendor Presentations

Megaconference VIII (cont) Official Welcome from Ohio State University President Huge and Wonderful China Participation; 50 sites Second Life - Virtual World participation Streaming archives and DVDs available

Collaboranza II ! Dec 4, Chicago Internet2 Meeting Collaboration Tools; Pre-Conference Workshop Presentations and Hands-on Demonstrations by Internet2 Commons Hosting Environment Member Vendors

Collaboranza II ! (cont) EVO (formerly VRVS) inSORS (Access Grid) Marratech Microsoft Conference XP RADVision Click-to-Meet

Gigaconference II High Definition Video Conferencing Special Event What is the current State of the Art? December 5, Chicago Internet2 Meeting and Everywhere. All Internet2 Corporate Member High- Definition Equipment Manufacturers 16 Remote High-Definition Sites Worldwide

Gigaconference II (cont) LifeSize Polycom (MCU and endpoints) Tandberg Codian (MCU) Streaming Video Archive and DVDs Available

Gigaconference Firsts Largest-Ever HD VC. 24 locations. First large-scale use of new Codian MCU First cascade between Polycom and Codian HD MCUs. First large-scale use of Polycom HD recorder

Special Event Special VIP Show of Computer Art and Animation From the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio Supercomputer Center

Gigaconference Results All the endpoints of all these vendors are interoperable. All these MCUs are interoperable. Very high data rates are not necessary for HD VC. All the vendors cooperated and worked together. Recordings and (SD) streaming video available.

Special Thanks Polycom for $5000 LifeSize for $2500 Codian for $2500 Allowed us to rent the high-quality HD projector. Codian, flew in the new special HD MCU from England for this event. Polycom, provided the HD recorder for this event.

Megaconference Junior IV Run by and for students Feb 22, 2007, Everywhere! 170 locations 16 countries 22 presentations Student VJs 12 hours Streaming Video archive available

Rutgers Internet2 Day March 21, locations: 3 at Rutgers University in New Jersey University of Maine DeSales University in Pennsylvania Internet2 Washington Office Internet2 Commons hosted HD Codian MCU for the event

Rutgers Internet2 Day (cont) Rutgers locations used LifeSize High Definition Video 200 attendees at Rutgers Well received by local officials; to be done annually

ViDe Conference THE WHOLE SHEBANG: Converged Communication Technologies in the Campus Information Ecosystem. Are We There Yet? Mar 26-29, 2007, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia

ViDe Conference (cont) Commons provided: Video Connections to remote presenters Streaming Video Archiving of the conference

Internet2 Commons H.323 Services Update Megan Troyer The Ohio State University Arlington, VA

Some Numbers Since The Commons moved to a subscription service October, 2003 Almost 1800 conferences Over 27,000 port-hours of usage Now have 34 current Subscribers Data current as of March 31, 2007

Commons usage by month—not counting the Megas

Internet2 Commons Certified Site Coordinators Now have 436 people who have filled out the SC certification form, 241 have “Approved” Status For the complete list: > Site Coordinators Contact me if your name is missing or your status is incorrect

Site Coordinator Trainings Site coordinator training via H.323 and The Commons aka “VC-by-VC” has been extremely popular Teaching about every 2-3 months to full classes (35 seat maximum in the class) Next class: May 17, registration coming soon!

What MCUs do we have? Old faithful: Radvision viaIP MCU This is the host of the Ad Hoc service Production Polycom MCU Has the highest level of administrator control Special Events Codian Has unique features and connect-ability

What do we have for streaming or archival? Starbak VCG Production live streaming/archival engine Codian MCU Has the ability for live stream of conference scheduled on this MCU Codian IPVCR Ability to archive H.239 as second stream video

What do we have for testing? There are GDS numbers for all three MCUs on the Commons testing website Not on the website (yet): H.239 testing: HD Voice Switched:

What’s new? Codian and Polycom MCUs have H.239 compatibility Polycom MCU has High Definition capabilities for Voice Switched conferences Ad Hoc conferencing capabilities with subscription No streaming or phone bridge Limited support

What else is new? ViDe GDS Update!! Internet2 is now hosting the backup North American Root Gatekeeper gatekeeper.internet2.edu

Pilot Program Administrator-level rights MAGPI, OSHEAN, NIH have administrator or sub-administrator level rights to some of the Commons gear They can start, stop, and/or download their own archives MAGPI has the ability to manage conferences on the Codian

What’s coming? Last October we installed Tandberg Management Suite (TMS) Have been testing permission levels and set-up features Working on Commons-specific help documentation Will Pilot in Summer 07 with the goal to be live Fall or Winter 2007

The Internet2 Commons Mission Jonathan Tyman Internet2 Arlington, VA

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. Work with Internet2 members to create collaboration services that are: easy, reliable, scalable, sustainable

Internet2 Commons: H.323 Service H.323 Service: Polycom, Radvision, Tandberg, Codian Streaming, Archiving, Multipoint bridging, POTS GDS, SIP, H.264, H.239 Help desk support $2,000 for 300 port-hrs 37+ subscribing organizations Collaboration Services : inSORS, Marratech, Click-to-Meet, MSR Conference XP, EVO Trainings: Live/Online “Certified Site Coordinators”

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