Internet2 Applications Update (3-20-03)

Internet2 Applications Update

20 March 2003

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Topics

- New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium, March 28 & 29

- NSF Experimental Infrastructure Network Solicitation

- Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training, March 26-27

- Van Houweling to Present at “America Talks Health Care”

- ViDeNet/H.323 Forum: Voice/Video over IP Quality of Service, March 26

- Ohio State University Transportable Satellite Dish on Tour!

- Transcontinental Poetry Reading, April 19

- Talks and Travel: Museums and the Web 2003 and VON

- Internet2 Days and Other Events

- Archives

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New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium, March 28 & 29

Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a two-day event (at the

New World Symphony campus on Miami Beach) to introduce educators and

technicians from major music schools to the power of high-performance

networking for distance education and music collaboration.

The March 28 Internet2 Performance Production Workshop is designed

primarily for technical personnel supporting schools of music and

performing arts departments involved in producing live performances and

music education events over Internet2. The focus will be on performance

production technologies designed to help members create successful

multi-site, interactive, digital video/audio productions. There is a charge

of $125.00 to attend this event and registration is required.

The March 29 Internet2 Music Education Symposium is geared toward deans,

presidents, administrators and faculty of schools of music. Michael Tilson

Thomas, Artistic Director for the New World Symphony, will talk about the

New World Symphony’s experience with distance education over Internet2. To

demonstrate the power and potential of using Internet2 for real time

interaction in music education, live demonstrations will be presented,

including several master classes with remote participants.

There is no charge for this event, but registration is required.

In addition, participants will be treated to an encore presentation of

USC's Integrated Media Systems Center 10.2 immersive audio demonstration

that wowed the audience at the Internet2 fall 2002 performance event. This

demo will feature a previously captured performance by the New World

Symphony streamed over Internet2 networks in better-than-broadcast quality,

high-definition digital video projected on a specially made 30 by 17 foot

screen and 10.2 multichannel immersive audio.

Those attending the March 28 Workshop are welcome to stay for March 29

Symposium. Saturday evening, March 29, all will be treated to a reception

and live New World Symphony concert at the Lincoln Theatre conducted by

Maestro Thomas.

http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html

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NSF Experimental Infrastructure Network Solicitation

NSF has released a solicitation entitled "Experimental Infrastructure

Network" (EIN), with a due date of May 8th for proposal submissions. This

solicitation seeks compelling research and education applications that

require services not available from leading edge production networks such

as Abilene. Abilene, however, could play a role in providing isolated

capacity for separate network paths that could be allocated for

experimental applications. In addition, there are plans for acquiring

lightpaths (i.e., optical links) within the period of this new NSF program

that could be applied toward the goals of the solicitation. We believe this

solicitation is important, as it will help define and motivate the next

generation of end-to-end services and applications that will run across

Internet2 networks.

If you are working on a response to this solicitation, have challenging

applications experiments in mind, and are interested in seeing if your

application could take advantage of Abilene's testbed capabilities, please

contact Ted Hanss at <ted@internet2.edu> and 734.913.4256 or Steve Corbató

at <corbato@internet2.edu> and 734.352.7006. We are open to exploring how

Abilene's capabilities can support proposals involving member universities,

corporations, and affiliates. For example, we could exploit large MTU sizes

(greater than 9K), IP quality of service, and experimental protocols to

enhance application performance.

If you have plans to respond to NSF's solicitation, please contact us by

March 28.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03539/nsf03539.pdf

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Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training, March 26-27

Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training will be held in conjunction

with the SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop in Atlanta on March 26-27. Each

university that wishes to participate in the Internet2 Commons worldwide

videoconferencing service must designate a qualified campus site

coordinator. This training will be taught by nationally recognized

professionals in digital videoconferencing. Hands-on training with

equipment will be included. Some of the training topics include:

- Audio and video basics

- Room/environments conditions for videoconferences

- Operating and troubleshooting procedures common to videoconferencing systems

In addition to the Atlanta training, two international sessions are being

offered. Site Coordinator Training will be held in Singapore on April 5

(following the ARPUNet Distance Learning and the Internet Conference) and

again in Zagreb on May 18 (preceding the TERENA Networking Conference).

There is a fee of $100 for the training. A detailed agenda and online

registration is available at the following URL:

http://commons.internet2.edu/train/Mar03.html

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Van Houweling to Present at “America Talks Health Care”

At the invitation of Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of

Health & Human Services, Douglas Van Houweling, UCAID President and CEO,

will be among the featured presenters at "America Talks Health Care. This

meeting, which takes place on March 21 in Dearborn, Michigan, is the fourth

in a series of Town Hall meetings with Secretary Thompson. The goal of this

meeting will be to discuss how health information technology and the

national health information infrastructure can improve health care in our

country, the benefits information technology is bringing us now, and what

it can do in the future. Van Houweling’s presentation is entitled,

“Internet2 on New Horizons in Health Care Information Technology.”

http://www.publicforuminstitute.org/activities/2003/mi/index.htm

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ViDeNet/H.323 Forum: Voice/Video over IP Quality of Service, March 26

ViDeNet and the H.323 Forum will present a two-hour videoconference titled

"Voice/Video Over IP Quality of Service" on March 26 at 11:00 a.m. EST

(1600 UTC). The conference will be synchronized with the SURA/ViDe workshop

in Atlanta so workshop attendees can participate. The agenda includes

industry leaders discussing Voice/Video Over IP Quality of Service from the

Standards Perspective: Mike Buckley, Rapporteur for ITU Q.F/16; the ViDeNet

Perspective: Tyler Johnson, the Vendor Perspectives: Cisco and Polycom; and

the Service Provider Perspective: AT&T.

http://www.h323forum.org/news/vid032603.asp

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Ohio State University Transportable Satellite Dish on Tour!

Staff members at Ohio State University will be taking the Transportable

Satellite Internet System (TSIS) on a whirlwind tour from Columbus, Ohio to

Tennessee, Georgia, and back home again. TSIS has been nominated by

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a Computerworld 21st Century Achievement

Award in the Education and Academia category. The program recognizes the

visionary use of information technology and promotion of positive social

change.

During this TSIS roadshow there will be four demonstrations of the TSIS

using H.323 videoconferencing:

March 24 at 4:00 p.m. EST: Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (University

of Tennessee, Knoxville)

March 25 at 9:00 a.m. EST: Distance Education (University of Tennessee,

Knoxville)

March 25 at 4:00 p.m. EST: SURA/ViDe Workshop (Atlanta, GA) March 26 at 3:00 p.m. EST: Medicine and related fields (University of

Tennessee, Chattanooga)

Anyone that would like to join in is more than welcome. To connect: 1. Register your endpoint with a GDS/ViDe enabled gatekeeper 2. Set your speed to 384 KBPS 3. Dial: 0011897001234

http://www.oar.net/index.cfm?PageID=78AF8EEA-577A-11D6-BCB300A0CC271CB6

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Transcontinental Poetry Reading, April 19

The Internet2 Transcontinental Poetry Reading, scheduled for April 19 at

7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 UTC), will be a live multi-site event dedicated to

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)--poet, playwright, and professor at Columbia

University. The event will feature poets across the country, who will be

brought together using videoconferencing over Internet2 high-performance

networks. The event will begin with an across-continent reading of Koch's

work called "Twenty Poems" from his book “Days and Nights.” The second half

of the event will feature the poets reading their own works. Several

Internet2 member campuses are assisting in producing this event, including

Ohio State University; Brown University; Columbia University; University of

California, Santa Cruz; University of California, San Diego; University of

Colorado, Boulder; University of Michigan and Louisiana State University.

Additional participation will be provided by The Summer Writing Program at

Naropa University. The featured poets include David Antin, Andrei Codrescu,

Maria Damon, Kenward Elmslie, Roxi Hamilton, Anselm Hollo, Forrest Gander,

Lisa Jarnot, Ron Padgett, Keith Taylor, and Anne Waldman. Ursula Heise,

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia

University, will serve as MC and host for this event.

http://arts.internet2.edu/poetry-reading.html

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Talks and Travel

Museums and the Web 2003

Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager for Arts & Humanities Initiatives, and

Len Steinbach, Chief Information Officer for the Cleveland Museum of Art,

will present an information session entitled “Internet2 and Museums: New

Potential for Programming, Education, and Outreach” at the Museums and the

Web Conference on March 21 in Charlotte, NC.

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/index.html

VON Enterprise Forum

To encourage coordination between Internet2 member institutions and the IP

telephony industry, five Internet2 VoIP technology leaders will participate

in a panel discussion “Partnering Industry and Higher Education to Advance

VoIP and Integrated Communications” at the VON Enterprise Forum in San Jose

on March 31st. VON (Voice on the Net) is the premier trade show for IP

voice and integrated communications. Panelists include Dennis Baron, Senior

Project Director, Information Systems, MIT; Jeremy George, Director,

Advanced Networking Group, Yale University; Ben Teitelbaum, Program

Manager, VoIP and Integrated Communications, Internet2; Mike Enyeart,

Telecommunication Scientist, Indiana University, and Walt Magnussen,

Associate Director for Telecommunications, Texas A&M University. Enyeart

and Magnussen are co-chairs of the Internet2 VoIP Working Group

(http://voip.internet2.edu/).

http://www.pulver.com/von/

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Internet2 Days and Other Events

SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop -- March 24-26 http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2003/index.shtml

Temple University Internet2 Day -- March 26 http://www.temple.edu/cs/

University of New Mexico Internet2 Day -- March 28 http://www4.unm.edu/internet2

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