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May 3, 2008--Live high quality video streamed in from nine different locations on the RIT campus to fill the 30' of projection screens in the Interactive Collaboration Environments Lab in CASCI, the 104" of LCD panels in the Wallace Library, and seven other locations on campus.
From NTID at one end of campus to CASCI on the other, and from the CS and IT Departments, Center for Imaging Science, IT Collaboratory, and the Library, viewers at any of these sites could see, hear, and talk to all the other sites. One stream even came in from RIT's campus in Kosovo.
Using Access Grid technology, DV camcorders, and Gigabit networks, four ICELab student staff members (Matt Leszczenski, Andrew Ford, Chris Tosswill, and Brent Strong) used multiprocessor Sun and Dell Workstations to send and receive all 10 streams in real time without any degradation of quality.
This advanced network infrastructure will be the basis for an RIT Collaboration Grid connecting all of RIT's academic areas including those abroad. "The next phase will feature High Definition video, run over 10 Gigabit networks, and use touchscreen technology," according to ICELab Director Gurcharan Khanna.
For more information visit http://ICELab.rit.edu.
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