ESnet Collaboration Services

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ESnet Collaboration Services
ECS Staff Oct 12, 2005
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Goal

• To provide state-of-the-art collaboration
  technologies and services that allow our
  customers to meet with geographically dispersed
  colleagues as if they were all in the same room.

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Overview of Current Services

• Web-Based Registration
• Scheduled Audio and Data Conferencing
• 144 ports audio, unlimited data
• Ad-Hoc Video (H.323/H.320) Conferencing
• 180 ports H.323
• Gateway for voice ISDN video
• Streaming (Quicktime and REAL).
• Ad-Hoc meeting email scheduler

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Drudge Work

• All video infrastructure is working at the latest
  code available
• MeetingPlace will be upgraded to latest code
  soon.
• ESnet home-grown registration pages will be
  modified for MeetingPlace

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Production Diagram
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Workshop 2004

• Document Complete
• http//www.es.net/ECS-Workshop-2004-Document.doc

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Requested Items Implemented

• Streaming of Video Meetings
• Quicktime or REAL on the Codian
• Global dialing (GDS) access to an ESnet public
  MCU
• stopped due to lack of GK resources
• H.239 (People and Content)
• Still testing, used for this workshop(?)
• Wiki.
• IN2P3 (Christian Helft) developed a Wiki for ECS
  Collaboration

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Requested Items Implemented (2)

• Real-Time Usage Stats
• TRIUMF (Andrew Daviel) developed code to display
  real-time stats on web
• Test two way audio and video
• VideNet implemented Copy Bird
• Dial 00112971386.
• Increased audio conf size and started overbooking
  to stop scheduling errors

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Requested Items Implemented (3)

• Increased services bandwidth per endpoint to 4
  Mbps on Codian (001134988X) and 784 kbps on
  Radvison (84X).
• Allowed full access for Gnomemeeting and OhPhone
  X clients

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Non-Requested Tasks Completed

• Developed code to track equipment registrations
• Developed an Ad-Hoc Scheduler
• Simply an email that gives all the directions how
  to connect to a meeting. Used for the Workshop.
• Improved statistics gathering code

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Items We Want to Implement in 2005/2006

• Recording and playback (via web) of video
  meetings
• Codian IP-VCR
• VoIP MCU service
• MeetingPlace and Call Manager
• Integrated voice, video, data
• MeetingPlace and Radvision
• Scheduled and/or Ad-Hoc.

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Items We Want to Implement in 2005/2006 (2)

• Distributed (worldwide) Support HELP
• Organize a testing group
• ecs-tech_at_es.net
• Make all services GDS capable
• Discussion topic for Friday(?).
• Put H.239 in full-production

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Advanced Development/Testing

• Testing VoIP using MeetingPlace and Call Manager
  from Cisco
• Interoperability of Call Manager and Rad ECS-500
  gatekeeper.
• Testing integrated voice, video, and data
  collaboration with MeetingPlace and Radvision

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Collab Usage Stats-August 2005

• Total H.323 MCU port hours 4625
• Total Voice port hours 1767
• Total Data port hours 223
• Total equipment Registered 1117
• H.323 901.
• H.320 216

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Usage Stats-H.323 Detail

• Radvision port hours 4315
• Codian port hours 310
• Total MCU port hours 4625
• Gateway port hours 2
• Point port hours 372
• Calls not connected 3977
• Calls connected 12081
• Total Attempted Calls 16058
• Percent not connected 24
• Calls more than 30 min long 3122
• Calls more than 1 hour long 1934
• Calls more than 2 hours long 418
• Calls more than 3 hours long 171
• Calls more than 8 hours long 43

prohibited this with ISDN
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Usage Stats-H.323 Graph
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Usage Stats-Audio Graph
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Usage Stats-Audio Meetings Graph
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Usage Stats-Data Graph
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Equipment Registrations
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Equipment Registrations (2)
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Equipment Registrations (3)
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Equipment Registrations (4)

• Total Endpoints Registered since Jan 2004 1117
• Total H.323 901
• Total H.320 216
• H.323 Endpoints Registered
• PolyCom 584
• Tandberg 33
• Gnomemeeting 30
• OhPhoneX 22
• VCON 15
• VTEL 1
• Sony 6
• Zydacron 9
• Other 201

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Summary

• Progress is being made
• Audio bridge usage is increasing slowly
• Data usage is all over the map
• Registrations of H.323 equip increasing monthly.
• Expect steady or growing H.323 usage even though
  VRVS is growing and other organizations are
  putting in infrastructure

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Questions