The International Grid (iGrid) special event at this summer's INET 2000 Conference in Yokohama, Japan, July 18-21, will showcase the latest in technological innovations and application advancements supporting global community networking.

iGrid 2000 will highlight how scientific collaborators are now taking advantage of global connectivity to empower collaborative solutions to complex problems. Through advanced networking techniques, researchers can access distributed computing, remote storage, and visualization/virtual-reality display devices more efficiently than ever. Indiana University, in cooperation with corporate and university partners, is providing digital video services at iGrid 2000 designed to facilitate researcher collaboration and provide global dissemination of the iGrid 2000 demonstrations. IU is providing:

1) in cooperation with Wire One Inc; H.323 videoconferencing systems at the iGrid venue and to selected researchers at their home base to provide globally distributed researchers interactive access to their collaborators at the iGrid 2000 site.

2) in cooperation with Litton Network Access Systems and University of Washington; CAMVision-2 MPEG2 over IP codecs to provide broadcast-quality interactive and streaming video from the iGrid floor, including multicast to Internet2 sites that have the Litton equipment and the first live IP- based trans-Pacific distribution to commercial cable reaching television audiences in the Seattle area and rebroadcast on the ResearchChannel reaching direct broadcast satellite viewers across the country.

3) streaming video of the demonstrations, utilizing IBM Content Manager VideoCharger high-quality 1.5Mbps multicast MPEG1 and commodity-quality webcast using Real technology. Details regarding how to access the streaming video broadcasts are at http://www.indiana.edu/~video/igrid2000/.

High-quality broadcast video delivered over high-performance research and education networks serves an important role in the dissemination of information, education, and outreach regarding research activities. Interactive videoconferencing facilitates and unites the activities of geographically distributed research collaborations. Digital video services are a tool to empower the global research community.

Contact:
Karen Adams
kadams@ovpit.indiana.edu

For more information, see the following Web sites:
iGrid 2000 Video Services

INET 2000/iGrid

STAR TAP iGrid 2000 News