Internet2 Demos at the
Broadband Summit 2004

Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting attendees are invited to visit the exhibit area of the Broadband Summit 2004 at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington DC, on 20 April, 5:00-7:00 pm. The Internet2 exhibit booth will feature demonstrations by Internet2 members Microsoft and ResearchChannel. Several other Internet2 members are participating in activities related to the Broadband Summit. An Internet2 press release describes these activities in greater detail.

Note: Internet2 is not providing transportation from the Crystal Gateway Marriott to the Reagan Center. Transportation details are provided at the link below.

Thanks to Our Sponsors!

Internet2 would like to thank the following Abilene Partners for providing connectivity to the Abilene Network for these demos.

Indiana University
Juniper Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications

Special acknowledgement to the following non-Internet2 members for providing generous networking connection contributions for the Broadband Summit.

Gain Communications
Yipes Enterprise Services

Conference XP

http://www.conferencexp.net

Developed at:
Microsoft

Demonstrators:
Chris Moffatt
Todd Needham
Randy Hinrichs

Description:
The Conferencing Experience Project, ConferenceXP, is a research and development initiative of Microsoft Research's Learning Sciences and Technology group. ConferenceXP integrates recent advances in high-performance audio, video, and networking technologies to seamlessly connect multiple distant participants in a rich immersive environment for distance conferencing, instruction, and collaboration. It provides an extensible foundation for interactive collaborative environments and serves as a research platform for designing and implementing distance conferencing and learning applications. The high-speed, multicast-enabled Internet2 Abilene Network is a key component in enabling high-end collaboration solutions that provide both high-quality and low-latency delivery of audio and video.

Delivering Reality: HDTV and Interactive Communication over the Internet

http://researchchannel.org/projects/

Developed at:
ResearchChannel

Demonstrators:
Timothy Lorang
Catherine McConnell

Description:
The ResearchChannel consortium is exploring the frontiers of extremely high quality communication and interaction via Internet technologies through gigabit networks.  The consortium's member research universities and institutions are building applications to both more fully explore the world and to share and discuss that exploration with colleagues, students, teachers and others across the network.  These new applications strive to “deliver realism” by enabling the scientific, medical and educational communities to design and remotely use instruments and equipment of much higher capability because of higher bandwidth connectivity. For instance, these applications enable the exploration of the depths of the ocean to be shared continuously in real time and high definition quality with students, teachers and the public.  And, they may use ResearchChannel high bandwidth interactive applications to discuss this exploration almost as if they were meeting in the same room. To enhance the communication and sharing of research resources on-demand and to build a background for delivering (and storing) realism, ResearchChannel has developed and built a sophisticated digital asset management system.  This “DigitalWell” hosts almost 2,000 video programs freely available on demand, featuring biologists, oceanographers, astronomers, physicians, chemists, economists, and other researchers and scientists..  The following provides a more in-depth description of ResearchChannel applications and demonstrations that use very high bandwidth Internet technologies to “deliver realism”.

1. Internet High Definition Television Desktop Client One of the major goals of the ResearchChannel is to broaden access to HDTV-quality resources over the Internet. The intent can “deliver realism" to the desktop and create opportunities for new learning environments.  This application makes it possible for researchers, students and anyone connected to broadband networks to have access to moving images where high resolution is extremely important.  Some applications could include medical procedures or diagnosis, the study of remote or hostile environments such as the sea floor or the galaxies, or the visual arts.

2. Delivering Reality: Digital Video over IP Add free software ( www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/dvts ) and a mini-DV camera (for about $1000) to your computing environment and you can easily originate a 30 megabit video stream across the Internet.   This demonstration shows the first step in very high quality interaction at a very low price.  Using the DVTS software and the firewire port on a computer, this application can be extended to a very high quality videoconference.

3. Multicast MPEG2 Video over IP
MPEG2 is the format that is considered to be “broadcast quality” by the television and satellite industry.  ResearchChannel is currently multicasting an MPEG2 stream across the Internet. These multicast streams are used to originate high quality retransmissions of the ResearchChannel any where across the globe.

Transportation Details

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Address:  1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW  Washington, DC 20004  
Telephone: 202-312-1300  
Facsimile: 202-312-1310  
Toll-Free: 1-888-393-3306  

Parking: 2,000 covered spaces with direct access to building

Public Transportation from the Crystal Gateway Marriott: The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is located at the Federal Triangle metro station, on the Orange and Blue lines. View the Metrorail map here: http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm

One-way cost: off-peak, $1.20 peak, $1.35

Travel Time: approx. 15 Minutes

WITH TRANSFER: Take the Yellow Line, in the direction of Gallery-Place Chinatown, three stops to the Archives-Navy Memorial station. Transfer to the Blue line, in the direction of Franconia-Springfield, two stops to the Federal Triangle station.

WITHOUT TRANSFER: Take the Blue line, in the direction of Addison Road, nine stops to the Federal Triangle Station.