Music, Dance

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Music, Dance Others _at_ GARR

• New Users approach to Advanced Network Services

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New Network users

• Music
• education, performance, composition, ...
• Theater
• dance, drama, ...
• Architecture, History
• teleimmersion, rendering, ...
• Cultural Heritage, Museums
• interaction, databases, ...
• Health Science
• remote dignosis, surgery, enhanced reality, ...
• ...

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Approaching Users

• GARR does not differentiate among its users
• same services availalbe to all
• phycists, medical doctors, musicians, computer
  scientist, biologists, sociologists, librarians,
  dancers,... are all GARR users, with the same
  rights, same duties, same services, same support

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Handling Users

• some GARR staff follows more closely ceratins
  users groups
• users groups know a GARR staff reference person
  which they know better than others and supports
  them
• GARR staff supporting a certains users group
  translates into their common terminology and
  understading the GARR services meaning, and
  collects from users their requirements

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Offering Users Services

• tell us how you work approach
• GARR offers the whole set of services to all
  users, but tries also to generate new services
  from users requirements
• Services generated for one users group, become
  common services, adapted and adopted by other
  users
• The same service is translated into specific
  users group language for adoptions and
  understanding

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main GARR Users visible Services

• Security (GARR-CERT)
• alerts, guidelines and best practices
• Domain Names (GARR-NIC)
• handling procedures for it and eu
  registrations
• Certification Authority (GARR-CA)
• issuing users personal certificates
• EduRoam
• mobility
• AAI Federation (GARR-IDEM)
• services unified access

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main GARR Users visible Services (cont.)

• Mirror (GARR-Mirror)
• packages distribution
• Usenet News (GARR-News)
• news feeds and news uploads
• Vconf, and audio/video services (H)DVTS, ...
• Virtual Congress Centre, high end interactive
  services
• GARR.TV
• RE broadcasting channel

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main GARR Users invisible Services

• Dedicated circuits/VPNs
• Guarteed Bandwidth (QoS)
• Multicast
• ...

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Users perspective of audio/video service

• Music
• MasterClasses, remote performances, distributed
  performances
• Theater
• distributed performances, enhanced playspace
• Architecture, History
• virtual presence
• Cultural Heritage, Museums
• virtual close-up interactions
• Health Science
• remote real-time surgery and enhanced reality,
  ...

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Some History - How it all started

• 2001 WIDE releases DVTS
• GARR adopts it as a nice tool for network
  performance testing/loading
• 2002 at Jokoyama IETF DVTS is used to broadcast
  sessions on the LAN to the meeting foyer
• ... impressive quality for a set of bad looking
  speakers!
• 2003 Internet2 and GARR starts experiments with
  it over domestic WAN
• it works, but for which users?
• 2005 GARR and Internet2 try a transatlantic DVTS
• demo at GARR 05 Users Conference boost interest
  in italian music education community

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Examples from the past

• 2005 / 2006 GARR-Internet2-New World Symphony
  MasterClasses
• http//www.garr.it/conf_05/ram/Violista.ram

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Examples from the past

• 2006 and 2007 Italian Spring in Japan

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Examples from the past

• 2007 UbiquiLab
• http//ubiquilab.ning.com/video/1264588Video1262

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Examples from the past

• 2007 Distributed e-music composition

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Examples from the past

• 2007 and 2008 telesurgery at IRCCS workshop

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Examples from the past

• 2008 Ancient Instruments reconstruction via Grids

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Conclusions

• GARR does not operate a strict users
  segmentations and does not have specific groups
  portfolios.
• GARR adapts services and their understanding to
  users environment.
• GARR tries to create new services crossing users
  groups boundaries, and drawing from users common
  practices in their traditional enrironment.

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Questions?

• Thank you!