Internet2, MAGPI and Advanced IP Video Apps

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Internet2, MAGPI and Advanced IP Video Apps
Super Users Group - IP Video at Penn February 10,
2003

• Jennifer MacDougall, IT Project Leader
• ISC Networking Telecommunications
• jmacdoug_at_isc.upenn.edu

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Internet2 History in a Nutshell

• Born in 1996 by UCAID
• 34 original participants, Penn was a founding
  member
• Today a consortium led by over 200 US
  universities which is recreating the partnership
  among academia, industry and government that
  fostered todays Internet in its infancy
• Mission Develop and deploy advanced network
  applications and technologies, accelerating the
  creation of tomorrows Internet

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Abilene Backbone
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International MoU Map
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Commodity Internet Vs. High Performance
Internet2WHATS THE DIFFERENCE?
Commodity
High Performance

• High congestion
• Unpredictability
• No prioritization
• Low speeds
• Best Effort

• High bandwidth
• Low latency/jitter
• Real-time
• Scalability
• Multicasting
• QoS Guarantees

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Download of The Matrix DVD
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Examples of Select Penn Internet2 Applications

• Teleimmersion
• Digital Libraries
• Digital Mammography

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Digital Video - Dilberts Nightmare or Internet2
Killer App
- Ted Hanss, Director Applications Development
Internet2

• IP Videoconferencing
• Video on Demand
• Live Transmission
• Megaconference

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The International High Performance Distance
Education Project
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Penn Literacy Network/Trinity College Dublin
Project

• Educators in Dublin, Ireland and at Penn
• H.323 Video-conferencing
• At 768 kbps
• Early Childhood Literacy Workshop
• Clearly, NOT your average Internet2 application

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Health Sciences Career Series

• School of Nursing Dare to Be a Nurse outreach
  to K12s
• School of Medicine Pathology faculty presented
  remotely on Telepathology
• All using multi-point IP Video conferencing over
  high speed networks

Dr. Michael Feldman Penn, School of Medicine
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COPD Megaconference
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Access Grid

• Entire rooms of interaction instead of a talking
  head

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Next Up Gates Rhodes, DirectorPenn Video
Network