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Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting |
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April 9-11, 2003
Arlington, VA |
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Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
Poster Sessions
April 9-11, 2003
Arlington, VA
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| inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc. |
Research Project to Commercial Rollout
ChevronTexaco North America |
Brian Gleason |
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inSORS’ development and integration efforts on the
original Access Grid prototype have resulted in a stable, commercial class
inSORS Access Grid platform that several large companies are currently deploying.
ChevronTexaco North America was looking to increase communications between
remote sites. The inSORS solution proposed to enable high performance demonstrations
to business users within the context of a high value added decision-making
process. Within the scope of this project, the inSORS AG would deliver an
acceleration of that business process through the inclusion of remote experts.
inSORS also took ChevronTexaco through the process attributes that are in
the Access Grid's "Sweet Spot" based on other large customer experiences.
ChevronTexaco now has four complete room based inSORS AG nodes along with
several single node deployments. Their custom Virtual Venue enables private,
secure communications within their corporate firewall. The venue also allows
for lower bandwidth sites to connect, as well those that are not multicast
enabled. Further rollout will include offshore rigs, international sites,
suppliers, and partners. |
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| Lucent Technologies |
Test Development and Test Automation for Multi-service
Switch Verification |
Jeffrey Dunn, Cynthia
Martin |
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Telecommunication equipment design verification requires
a robust mechanism to formulate standardized profile test specifications,
allowing for quick and accurate feature verification, problem reproducibility,
and test coverage that extends to various interworking scenarios. This
poster session will provide an overview of the ISO/IEC 9646 specifications
and it's applications. This test methodology, typically used for asynchronous
transfer mode (ATM) conformance tests, is expanded to address diverse
feature test requirements, including voice over ATM, and to reproduce
customer issues. The software for Lucent Technologies PacketStar multi-service
media gateways is tested and benchmarked according to ISO/IEC 9646 specifications
using a diverse set of automated test tools.
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| Lucent Technologies |
Characterization of the Effects of Physical and Link
Layers on IP QoS |
Jeffrey Dunn, Cynthia
Martin |
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In the traditional Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
network model, Internet Protocol (IP) provided only an unreliable, best
effort delivery service. As a result, the effects of the physical and data
link layers on IP performance were ignored. In the current Internet Service
Provider (ISP) environment, Service Level Agreements (SLA) require that
IP based services provide certain Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. These
guarantees are often based on or enforced through physical and link layer
provisioning parameters, such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Connection
Admission Control (CAC) or Frame Relay (FR) traffic policing. In this poster,
we explore standards based methods for the characterization of the impact
of ATM and FR impairments, traffic policing and inter-working on IP traffic. |
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| RADVISION |
RADVISION's Multiprotocol Videoconferencing: H.323,
SIP, H.320 |
Craig Colin |
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RADVISION is demonstrating videoconferencing using both
H.323 and SIP endpoints in a single conference connected by a RADVISION
viaIP Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU) and Gateway. The multipoint videoconference
will showcase TANDBERG H.323 endpoints and SIP-based Microsoft Windows Messenger
endpoints for videoconferencing. |
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| TERENA |
TERENA Activities in 2003 |
Karel Vietsch |
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TERENA is the association of research and education networks
in Europe. TERENA supports joint European work in developing, evaluating,
testing, integrating and promoting new networking, middleware and application
technologies through task forces of technical experts and collaborative
projects. The association also organises conferences, workshops and seminars
for the exchange of information in the European research networking community,
and promotes knowledge transfer to less advanced networking organisations.
The poster will present some of TERENA's current activities. Printed materials
on TERENA activities and projects funded by the European Commission in the
area of research networking and Grids will be available. |
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| Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) |
Bridging the Digital Divide |
Warren Matthews |
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Last fall, a multidisciplinary group of international experts
gathered for an open round table on "Developing-Country Access to On-line
Scientific Publishing: Sustainable Alternatives". The meeting was sponsored
by: ICTP, ICSU, IUPAP, UNESCO, TWAS and WIF. Among the 10 recommendations
made, one was "To devote resources to monitor in real time the connectivity
of research and educational institutions in developing countries and to
encourage (and devote resources to) the development of the connectivity."
SLAC is working with the ICTP to implement this recommendation using the
PingER monitoring software. This poster details PingER's deployment among
participating ICTP sites and reports on the performance. Furthermore it
discusses the local Internet networking infrastructure and opportunities
for improvement. |
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| VBrick |
Visual Communications for Distance Learning Using
Hybrid MPEG Technologies
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Mike Savic |
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VBrick will present a poster session on video communications
over IP networks. The session will entail a technical description on distributing
high quality video over LANs, the Internet, and Internet2. In order to maximize
the benefit of the Internet2, you must be able to reach organizations not
directly connected to I2. With the use of video compression standards such
as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 and the availability of low cost simple to use video
appliances, schools and other I2 organizations can visually communicate
with anyone, anywhere, on any network. The poster session will include descriptions
of real world applications such as the live broadcast by the University
of California - Davis, of a Smallpox lecture on February 18th, 2003. Demonstrations
of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video compression will be available for attendees to
observe. |
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