Field Trial of Remote Splitting Video Streaming

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Field Trial of Remote Splitting Video Streaming

• Yohei SHIBUYA / IMnet

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Agenda

• Today's Topic
• About IMnet
• About this Field Trial
• Outline of Streaming System
• Announcement
• Brief Demonstration (if possible)

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Today's Topic

• I'm an ISP engineer from IMnet.
• IMnet will make a field trial of Live Streaming
  of APAN Meetings, Fukuoka.
• I'll explain about this field trial and make an
  announcement regarding it.

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What is IMnet?

• IMnet is an academic Internet Service Provider
  (ISP) built for exchanging research traffic among
  research organizations and networks
• running since 1994
• Funded by Japan Science and Technology
  Corporation (JST)
• Various research organizations and networks are
  connected as our customers and partners
• APAN is one of our partners (IMnet is given some
  transit by APAN)
• offering IPv6 connectivity, which is directly
  given by 6TAP via Transpac PVC.

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About this Field Trial (1)

• During APAN Meetings, we will make a field test
  of video streaming in order to evaluate
  robustness and video quality of today's streaming
  system through the IPv6 Internet.
• IPSec will be applied between the global IPv6
  edges for secure data transport.
• Streaming Server and Client themselves use IPv4
  for its video distribution, however, IPv4 over
  IPv6 tunnel is applied between Server and Client

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About this Field Trial(2)

• Following streaming servers are employed in this
  trial
• Helix Producer, Helix Universal Server
  (RealNetworks)
• There are several main components in this
  streaming system
• Video camera, Encoder, Transmitter, Splitter,
  Client
• Encoder will encode the video data from Video
  camera and send it to Transmitter. Those are all
  set here (Fukuoka).
• Transmitter will relay encoded data to Splitter,
  which is set in the IMnet backbone (Tokyo).
• Splitter have an ability to distribute live data
  to many Clients.
• Client can use RealPlayer8 or RealOnePlayer to
  watch the live streaming.

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Announcement

• You can view the live streaming of Room A and
  Room E, APAN Meetings, through the IPv4 Internet
  
• Streaming will be available from 22 Jan. to 24
  Jan. (Today's workshop will also be broadcasted
  while we're tuning the system)
• RealPlayer8 or RealOnePlayer is required as its
  client application
• For detailed information...
• guidance URL
• http//www.imnet.ad.jp/cnoc/stream/index.html
  or
• http//www.imnet.ad.jp have a link to the
  above URL