TechTalks Event
Video Over IP Networks: Where, When, How, and Why?
with guest experts Bob Dixon and Jill Gemmill
October 18, 2001
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This is the link about ViDeNet that was mentioned in the audiocast and that several listeners requested be shared, referring to it as "Jill & Bob's Web Page." It's where you will find info about the open MCU, or "public zones."
Guest Experts
Bob
Dixon is a Senior Systems Developer/Engineer at OARnet, and
the Chief Research Engineer for the Office of the CIO at Ohio State
University. Dixon holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering
from UWM, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State
University.
Dixon has been with Ohio State since 1972 serving in a variety of positions including Senior Research Engineer of the Emerging Technologies Group, Director of the Advanced Technology Group, Director of Academic Computing Services, and Assistant Director of the Radio Observatory, to name a few. Dixon has also worked as a Microwave Engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute, and has been a Faculty Fellow for Project CYCLOPS and Project OASIS (SETI systems design project) at NASA/AMES Research Center in California.
Jill
Gemmill is Assistant Director, Academic Computing in the Office
of the Vice President for Information Technology, the University
of Alabama at Birmingham.
She received her Bachelors Degree ( B.A. History) from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; her MS degree in Computer and Information Sciences from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is presently completed an MSEE in Electrical Engineering.
From 1983 to 1985 she provided computing support for the UAB Vision Science Research Center, as Programmer II and Systems Analyst I.� From 1985 to 1997 she founded and managed the Neurobiology Research Center�s Three Dimensional Imaging Facility, as Senior Systems Analyst, Technical Services Manager, and Information Systems Specialist III. From 1997 to 2000 she became Senior Network Applications Specialist for UAB Telecommunications and Network Services.
Ms. Gemmill is currently Chair of ViDe, the video development initiative and has been appointed to the Internet2 Health Sciences Leadership Team. more
Bob and Jill are both members of ViDe, the Video Development Initiative.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is the Executive Director of CREN.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
The best background for full appreciation of a CREN Tech Talk is often to listen to (or read the transcript of) a previous Tech Talk on a related topic. Available for you in our archives are the following:
- On January 21, 2001, guest expert Bob Taylor spoke about Streaming Video Applications: Planning and Delivery;
- On December 14, 2001, guest expert James Jokl was interviewed about Managing the Convergence of Data, Voice, and Video Streaming;
- On February 3, 2000, Joel Mambretti and Bob Taylor shared insights on Networked Digital Video.
Montgomery County Community in North Carolina is putting video over IP to practical use.
Jill would like you to know about the Internet2 Commons, a fledgling set of interactive working group tools which is focusing at the moment on services related to videoconferencing; and also has links to other interesting things such as the VidMid, the Video Middleware working group of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative.
Bob shared this link to information about the recent Megaconference.
More resources from Jill include information about ViDeNet and the Eureka! web site. We've been having some difficulty getting into the latter site this week.�
Additional ViDeNet Info:
- ViDeNet: IP Network for Global Voice and Videoconferencing A Case Study by Radvision August 2001 (PDF); and�
- Internet2
Adopts ViDeNet Architecture for Internet2 Commons Radvision Case
Study August 2001 (PDF) And a resource contribution from Howard
about
a Polycom product.
The TERENA Portal Initiative, in the Netherlands, offers a set of potential useful links to related resources.
The first OSHEAN WAVE, Workshop on Applications of Video in Education, will be held soon in Rhode Island.
Digital Video: Internet2 Killer App or Dilbert's Nightmare? by Ted Hanss, who has been a guest on Tech Talks in the past, is an excellent article recently published in EDUCAUSE Review.
