HD projects in Europe

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HD projects in Europe

• Coordinating efforts around the globe
• Egon Verharen
• Innovation manager, Advanced Services
• SURFnet
• Egon.verharen_at_surfnet.nl

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Coordinating effortsaround the Globe
RC/Internet2 bigvideo
TF-VVC HD wg
APAN HD-wg
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HD projects in Europe

• TERENA (Trans European Research and Education
  Network Association)
• Taskforce Video, Voice and Collaboration (TF-VVC)
• HD over IP activity area
• HD forum (Wiki)
• See Jesus Alcobers (i2CAT) presentation!
• SIP framework for signalling HD transmission
• HQ VC Streaming workshop
• Fall 2005, follow up from june 2001
• Development work
• Peter Holub (Masaryk Univ CESNET)
• VideoLAN HDV drivers (FreeBSD)
• Colin Perkins (Univ Glasgow) (with USC ISI)
• Uncompressed HDTV transport

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HD _at_ SURFnet

• Goal use in high-end visualisation and remote
  monitoring and -control apps (Medicine High
  Energy Physics)
• Status technology assessment projects and demos
• Experimentation
• DV over IP, HD over IP
• State of the art report
• VC room
• Demos
• User conference (dec. 2004)
• HDSDI (HDcam in SMPTE SDTi) HD from
  ResearchChannel
• MPEG-2 TS HD from GIST, Korea
• MPEG-2 TS WM HD from own Streaming server
• VIOLA workshop (apr. 2005, Berlin)
• MPEG-2 HD to workshop in Berlin
• Together with i2CAT, CRC (Canada)
• UCLP (user controlled lightpaths)
• Opening regional net (jun. 2005, Zeeland)
• All but uncompressed (from partners head
  office, to location)
• World exhibit presentation (aug. 2005, Aichi,
  Japan)
• Interactive uncompressed HD (SMPTE 292)