The ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group is made up of members who have experience and expertise in advanced networking infrastructure. The group enables working partnerships with key technology innovators and brings together a substantial repository of high-quality video and high-definition content. The group actively develops, tests, experiments with and evolves the next generation of interactive and on demand applications.

The Working Group is open to all Internet2 members interested in multimedia applications. Current projects include DVTS, interactive HD, streaming applications at all bandwidths from PocketPC to high definition, and multicast technologies. This session includes several demonstrations of applications, and we welcome new project ideas.
We encourage Internet2 participants who are not ResearchChannel members to attend our meetings.

Working Group Co-Chairs
José Conde, University of Puerto Rico
Dave Devereaux-Weber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Working Group Mailing List: wg-RC@internet2.edu
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ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group Goals

• Accelerate the evolution and propagation of technologies, tools, standards and collaborations for the capture, storage, sharing and Web-augmentation of television, HDTV, film and other high-quality, high-bitrate broadcast, unicast, demand, streaming and interactive content

• Exercise Internet2 backbone capabilities to support the teaching, learning and research missions of all members by delivering important and scarce content resources

• Develop and propagate new tools and approaches for broadcast and Internet distribution of high-quality television, HDTV, DVD, CD-audio, multimedia and movie content, including development work and/or pioneering implementations of broadcast head-end automation, on-demand digital archives and storage and access mechanisms suitable for real-time and batch distribution of “broadcast quality” materials

• Collaboratively explore high-end, multimedia, HDTV and film-quality interactive immersive technologies, content and applications

• Develop the “network-aware and adaptive” applications, and the related architectures, approaches and tools needed to achieve pervasive use of high-quality, real-time broadband applications

Objectives

• Share knowledge and experience in implementing various on-demand video and streaming video incarnations

• Work toward the highest quality implementation of video distribution by interacting with vendors and pushing the appropriate network and computing requirements

• Investigate the requirements and potential solutions for the support of distributed-quality video distribution

• Promote the distribution of materials to ensure they can be viewed by a worldwide audience

Projects

• Exploring multicast as an economical method of transmitting high-quality, high-bandwidth streams to be used for retransmission. This is of particular interest to several European, South American and Pacific Rim research and educational networks that have joined the Working Group. ResearchChannel currently multicasts its 24/7 satellite channel on the network at 3.2Mbps (233.0.73.29).

Membership

The ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group is open to all interested representatives of Internet2 members and partner organizations. There are regularly scheduled video conferences to discuss progress and testing results of multicast technologies for interested parties. Please join the ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group mailing list for more information.

Contact Information

For more information about programming, participation and experiments, check the ResearchChannel Web site.

For more information about participation in the ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group, contact us.