New World Symphony Webcast
Submitted by Tom Snook

For the first time in its 19-year history, the New World Symphony will transmit a full-orchestra performance live over both the commercial Internet and Internet2, Sunday, 29 April, 2007, 4:30 PM U.S. EDT.

Michael Tilson Thomas, artistic director, will introduce and conduct Stravinsky's Pétrouchka in front of a live audience of 700 at the Lincoln Theatre, New World Symphony's home in Miami Beach, Florida. Originally written for the Ballet Russes in 1911, Pétrouchka is a masterpiece of 20th-century orchestral repertoire. The music depicts the adventures of a straw puppet that comes to life, similar to the beloved story of Pinocchio.

The performance will be simultaneously transmitted live over the Internet. The links will be available at the New World Symphony's website, www.nws.edu, and the show is expected to run 37 minutes. The webcast, available on RealPlayer and Windows Media for commercial Internet users, will provide a complete view of the conductor and orchestra paired with high-quality audio. Locations connected to the Internet2 network or its international partner networks can access the webcast in multi-cast format at greater bandwidth, providing higher video and audio quality. The NWS website will contain program notes, a performers' blog, and more information about the New World Symphony.

Multicast Addresses
MPEG2 (6Mbps) 233.45.17.245:4444
DVTS (30Mbps) 233.45.17.50:8000

Crystal Gateway Marriott
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia 22202

Spring 2007 will be a pivotal time for the Internet2 community:
the new Internet2 Network, with its 100 Gbps capacity and dynamic wave provisioning service, will be nearing full implementation; a new governance structure will be in place; and major new advanced research and education partnerships and initiatives--encompassing cyberinfrastructure, the TeraGrid, regional health networks, enterprise workflow, and more--will be underway.

The Spring 2007 Member Meeting program will focus on these many and varied activities along with the topics of strategy, policy and federal relationships that are customary at the spring meeting.

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Internet2 Digital Video Initiative (I2DVI) at Spring Internet2 Member Meeting

A meeting of the Internet2 Digital Video Initiative (I2DVI) will be held on Wednesday, April 25 from 11:45 to 1:15 in conjunction with the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington Virginia. The Internet2 Digital Video Initiative is a Special Interest Group of Internet2. This meeting is open to all who are interested in the topic of digital video. 576

The meeting will feature Ted Hanss who is the Director of Enabling Technologies in the Medical School at the University of Michigan and he will be speaking about "Digital Video for Medical School Research, Education, and Administration"; Justin Trieger who is the Internet2 Systems Manager for the New World Symphony and he will talk about the "Virtual Orchestra: DV Applications in Music Education and Performance"; and Bob Dixon who is the Chief Research Engineer in the Office of the CIO, Ohio State University and OARnet and he will speak about the "Megaconference, Megaconference Jr, and the Gigaconference past and Future". The presentations will be followed by short reports from the audience on topics of interest. Lunch will be provided.

Meet Industry Leaders at IPTV World at NAB2007

If you are planning to develop, distribute, sell or market products, services or applications for the IP television industry, then you must attend! Last year we sold out weeks in advance and hundreds were turned away, so don't miss out this year.

Satellite and cable have been battling it out for a decade with industry watchers taking sides and making bets on who will win. With over 70 million cable subscribers and 16 million satellite subscribers in the U.S. market, the telco industry is taking on a huge challenge by deploying pay television services.

IPv6 Multicast Hands-On Workshop

Submitted by Ben Chinowsky, Internet2

Seats are available for the December 12-13 IPv6 Multicast Hands-On Workshop, to be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The lead instructor for this workshop is Stig Venaas of UNINETT, the Norwegian Research Network. UNINETT has deployed IPv6 multicast, and Stig is one of the world's leading experts on the topic. In addition to having given many presentations, tutorials and workshops on IPv6 multicast, Stig is the author of the ssmping multicast tool (http://www.venaas.no/multicast/ssmping/) and is active in the IETF.

See http://events.internet2.edu/2006/IPv6/12-06ipv6multicast/ for details and registration.

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
December 4 - 7
Chicago, IL

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I2DVI Meeting at Fall Internet 2 Members Meeting

Submitted by Larry Amiot

As I am sure you know, the Fall internet2 Member Meeting will be held in Chicago this year. In conjunction with the Member Meeting, we will hold an Internet2 Digital Video Initiative (I2DVI) meeting on Wednesday, December 6 from 11:45 to 1:15. Lunch will be served either in the room or near by. The abstract for the meeting is shown below. I hope to see you there....Larry

The Internet2 Digital Video Initiative is a Special Interest Group on Internet2. This meeting is open to all who are interested in the topic of digital video. The meeting will feature several speakers on various digital video topics. Bob Dixon of The Ohio State University will talk about the Megaconference, the Gigaconference, and the Collaboranza. Erik Dobbelsteijn of Surfnet will talk about GDS and ENUM. David Devereaux-Weber of the University of Wisconsin at Madison will talk about Using VLC- Hints and Tricks. The presentations will be followed by short reports from the audience on topics of interest. 526

Spring 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
April 24 - 26
Arlington, VA

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Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting
Sept 19 - 22
Philadelphia, PA

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Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a hands-on audio/video production workshop. The emphasis will be on real-time experience connecting with remote sites over Internet2, setting up incoming and outgoing audio, creating a multi-camera shoot, placing lights and projectors and operating codecs. This workshop will explore in depth the elements needed to do everything from simple one-on-one interactions to larger scale stage productions via Internet2. The workshop is designed for an audience of technologists responsible for setting up distance learning and remote interactive media events. Administrators, deans and CIOs will find January 24th of most interest, while network and audio engineers and other hands-on technicians will find the 25th and 26th most relevant.

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The Fall meeting of Internet2 Members took place Sept 27th to the 30th in Austin, TX. It was a meeting of Internet 2 people from the top Universities and Research Centers in the nation. Attending from USF was Micheal Koberstein, webmaster for CVPA, who attended a number of meetings focusing mainly on Internet2 video. He met with Bob Riddle of I2 with whom he is developing the DV Guide which will let all member universities publically list their video broadcasts for all to see. Micheal has been invited to do a presentation about the DV Guide at the Spring Internet2 members meeting in May 2005 in Arlington, VA.

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Forum Barcelona is broadcasting a 10Mbps streaming multicast of their International Forum of Cultures with all the dialogues from Barcelona, Spain. It will run through September 26th and you can view the entire meeting using Videolan software. To view it open your Videolan software and click on File, Open Network Stream, UDP/RTP Multicast option and input address: 233.50.241.1 port 1234.

April 20, 2004 - Today the University of South Florida's College of Visual and Performing Arts facultys' original compositions were heard by scientists and researchers at a national meeting of over 200 Carnegie Research Comprehensive universities. Using multicast uncompressed audio technology streaming at 1.44 Mbit/second, CD quality audio was sent flawlessly from the Tampa campus to the conference site and to international sites linked by the very high speed network. The software, developed at the College of Visual and Performing Arts with the assistance of Internet2 project staff at USF, is the basis of an online repository of 10,000 American Jazz albums from the early 20th century. Students and faculty throughout the world will soon be able to access this precious cultural resource from their Internet2 universities. The website to access USF's multicast and unicast streaming jazz is http://tunes.cvpa.usf.edu:7070.