ResearchChannel Visions ’05: Live HD Video Images from the Seafloor via IP Networks Michael Wellings, Director, Engineering TERENA Networking Conference 2006

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. The ResearchChannel Consortium An intellectual community, we make knowledge available to all by sharing our developments, insights and discoveries with a global audience. We bring together ideas from many of the world’s premier academic and research institutions and disseminate those ideas to the public directly, without interference. We are committed to technological innovation to enable leading-edge exchanges of our resources.

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane UniversityUniversidad de Puerto Rico California State University, SacramentoUniversidade de São Paulo Duke UniversityUniversity of Alaska - Fairbanks George Mason UniversityUniversity of Chicago Johns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of Hawaii Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Maryland National University of SingaporeUniversity of Michigan New York UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania Oregon State UniversityUniversity of Southern California Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity of Virginia Rice UniversityUniversity of Washington Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Stanford University Medical CenterVirginia Tech Texas A&M UniversityYale University Tufts University Consortium Members

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. AARNetNational Academy of Engineering Advanced Network ForumNational Academy of Sciences AJA Video Systems Inc.National Institute of Nursing CENICNational Institute of Standards and Technology FujinonNational Institutes of Health Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNational Library of Medicine IBM CorporationNational Science Foundation Intel CorporationNational Sea Grant College Program Internet2Pacific Northwest Gigapop Johnson & JohnsonPoznañ Supercomputing and Networking Center Library of CongressR1edu.org Microsoft ResearchSURFnet National AcademiesVulcan Northwest Inc. Wisconsin Public Television Consortium Members

ResearchChannel Distribution

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel million households (US) DishNetwork satellite system 11.5 million homes Cable systems 10.2 million homes 35 states Worldwide Internet Audience U.S. Television Distribution

Innovations in Technology

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Why? To advance global networking technologies (“Big Networks for Big Science”) To explore new methods of media distribution and sharing for teaching learning and research To further multidisciplinary multinational scientific collaboration Because the consortium is uniquely qualified to do so

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. ResearchChannel is a collaboration among experts in Internet networking, storage/search infrastructure development, emerging streaming media and interactive technologies, digital television engineering, and video production. On the Leading Edge

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Projects First Internet HDTV transmission - iHDTV Digital Asset Management System Development - DigitalWell Automation of multiple format encoding Webcasting (SD and HD over IP in multiple formats) Streaming to handheld devices ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iHDTV – HD delivery iHDTV Explained iHD1500 iHD270 HD to the Desktop

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iHDTV Explained iHD1500 Uncompressed SMPTE 292M 4:2:2 Data rate total approx 1.5 gbps Requires: high-end HD capture cards PCI Express platforms Windows XP

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iHDTV Explained iHD270 (first introduced aug 99) Sony HDCam tm compression SDTI data format 270mbps AJA Xena I/O Requires: AJA Xena-HD capture cards Dual Processor P4 Windows XP Sony HDCam Hardware encoder/decoder

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Sept iGrid San Diego Enhanced HD interactive - USA118: Global N-Way Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing Underwater research using HD from SS Thompson – USA119: 20,000 Terabits Under the Sea Nov SC05 Seattle Enhanced HD Interactive Conferencing/HD Storage and capture using SRB (Storage Resource Broker) Recent Demos

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iGRID 05 – USA118 Sept iGrid San Diego Remote site equipment: 2 RX iHD1500 Hosts (multicast from iGRID) 1 TX iHD1500 Client Central site equipment: 6 RX iHD1500 Clients 2 TX iHD1500 Hosts (Multicast) Evertz HD Video Tile Generator Multichannel mix-minus audio system

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iGRID USA 118 Network Diagram

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iGRID 05 – USA119 Sept iGrid San Diego First ever live HD/ip from a ship at sea to viewers on shore Ku-Band equipment upgrade to SeaTel Uplink Careful RF engineering to design satellite Link-Budget Real-time MPEG-2 encoding Ip gateway Satellite modem 15mbps Used USA118 as the transport vehicle for the live show

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Internet HDTV: VISIONS’05

Engineering HD from the Ocean Floor Visions ’05: Live HD Video Images from the Seafloor via IP Networks

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 Challenges Satellite transmission -location/power/bandwidth -ship's schedule HD underwater camera -viable science, not just pretty pictures -lead time Live TV production at sea -communications

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 Location

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 Insite Zeus+ HD camera

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 R/V Thompson Systems

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 G10R Coverage

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 R/V Thompson Dish

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ’05 R/V Thompson Dish Sea-Tel 2.4m Stabilized -+/- 25 degrees pitch! C and Ku band -feed horn change -40 watt amp for Ku

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 HD Underwater camera

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 HD Camera Dockside Test

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ’05 HD Camera Final Location

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 Production Control

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ‘05 Live HD Production

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iGRID USA 119

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. iGRID USA 119 Network

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Visions ’05 Follow on goals (pending funding) Capture all HD footage to disk in SDTI / HDCam ™ and uncompressed SMPTE 292M formats Create Metadata engine for scientific annotation Use DigitalWell for storage and retrieval Make available to researchers worldwide as a collaborative effort A demonstration project is underway involving several hours of video

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Bringing Science to your Desktop Using the iHDTV software suite ResearchChannel can deliver rich content Uncompressed HD delivery for collaborative environments Uncompressed HD for demanding visual applications Visions ’05 Neptune The Looking Project Others Compressed HD in several formats for desktop and home delivery WMV-HD MPEG2 MPEG4/H.264/AVC

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. High Definition Video to the Desktop FORMATS MPEG2 H.264, ACV, MPEG-4 HDV PLAYERS VLC (subject to license issues) WM9/10 QuickTime / MPEG4 VLC

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. Internet HDTV: VISIONS’05

Think Forward. Think ResearchChannel. For More Information inquires: Michael Wellings Director, Engineering Dave Robertson Broadcast Engineer