Research Channel Amy Philipson Asst Vice Provost Executive

Research. Channel Amy Philipson Asst Vice Provost, Executive Director Jim De. Roest Director, Streaming Media Technologies Michael Wellings Director, TV Engineering

The Research. Channel Consortium An intellectual community, we make knowledge available to all by sharing our developments, insights and discoveries with a global audience. We bring together ideas from many of the world’s premier academic and research institutions and disseminate those ideas to the public directly, without interference. We are committed to technological innovation to enable leading-edge exchanges of our resources. Knowledge transfer via Television and Vo. D capitalizing on international next generation networks Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Consortium Members A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University Universidad de Puerto Rico California State University, Sacramento Universidade de São Paulo Duke University of Alaska - Fairbanks George Mason University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University of Hawaii Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Maryland National University of Singapore University of Michigan New York University of Pennsylvania Oregon State University of Southern California Pennsylvania State University of Virginia Rice University of Washington Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University of Wisconsin-Madison Stanford University Medical Center Virginia Tech Texas A&M University Yale University Tufts University Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Consortium Members AARNet National Academy of Engineering Advanced Network Forum National Academy of Sciences AJA Video Systems Inc. National Institute of Nursing CENIC National Institute of Standards and Technology Fujinon National Institutes of Health Howard Hughes Medical Institute National Library of Medicine IBM Corporation National Science Foundation Intel Corporation National Sea Grant College Program Internet 2 Pacific Northwest Gigapop Johnson & Johnson Poznañ Supercomputing and Networking Center Library of Congress R 1 edu. org Microsoft Research SURFnet National Academies Vulcan Northwest Inc. Wisconsin Public Television Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

U. S. Television Distribution 21. 7 million households Dish. Network satellite system • 11. 5 million homes Cable systems • 10. 2 million homes • 35 states Worldwide Internet audience Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Internet Distribution Webcast & Multicast All broadcasts are webcast 24/7, in audio and three video bandwidths (modem, dsl and cable). MPEG 2 multicast at 3 mpbs & DV at 30 mbps. Video On Demand Research. Channel offers a searchable database of over 1500 titles, viewable at modem, dsl, cable and MPEG 2 bandwidths. Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

New Distribution Initiatives: Cable VOD Ideally suited to VOD platform Charter Communications agreement adds 2 million VOD subscribers Launch first quarter 2006 with 15 titles per month Google Video, Open Media Network Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Digital. Well: Grid Enabled Digital Asset Management Project Focus • Easy way to acquire, collect, classify, store , deliver large collections of digital media over IP networks. • Proxy for any type of large data sets but initially focused on video and audio assets – content agnostic • Includes broadcast/Internet Integration • Exploits next generation networking to ensure high quality – Deliver Realism • Easy-to-use Web services-based interface compatible with current Web browsers and computing platforms. • Uses pluggable authentication to ensure security and control access to collections. • Scalable architecture ensures that collections can be built, accessed, searched and shared between disparate networked communities. • D-Lib/Data Grid Interoperation via SRB and OAI for content and metadata sharing. . • Middleware – modular integration model Metadata, DRM/IP, AAI, WSAPI, Grid • Automation – End to End Capture, Describe, Preserve, Deliver Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Grid Enabled Digital Broadcast Acquisitio n Tape Ingest Dub Television Scheduling Broadcast Services Final Cut Edit Suites Digital. Well SRB TSM Metadata Content Distributio n Services Manage Digital Essence Encoding Captioning Services Edit, Transcode, … Automate Metadata Device Acquisition MXF, AAF, SMPTE, MPEG 7, … Archive/Preservation Storage Tape/Disk Services Streaming Vo. D Services Re-purpose, Footage, … Service Flows Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Near-line Archive Data Grid SRB Storage Abstraction 1 st Tier Disk Cache Stage Disk Cache Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

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Data Grid - Digital Library Integration SRB and Digital Libraries • Conduit for sharing metadata and/or content in a federation • Platform for building a preservation environment D-Libs using or considering SRB • • • MIT D-Space - +120 sites Cornell Fedora – +30 sites Research. Channel Digital. Well UCSD TV CDL Data Grids • WUNGrid • PRAGMA Grid Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

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SC’ 05 Digital. Well SRB Data Grid Diagram – HD Collaborative Video Demonstration Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Digital. Well Collections Existing, Ongoing, New … +2100 hrs Research. Channel, UWTV +180 Ocean Science uncompressed HD Microsoft Research Lecture Series Multi-University Research Library Forestry Old Growth Satellite Imagery Deep Space Astronomy – WUNGrid Project KEXP Radio Live Broadcasts, In Studio Sessions +15, 000 hrs Ethnomusicology Research Instructional Medical Datasets UW Library Collections Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Delivering Realism i. HDTV: Internet High Definition Television i. HDTV Platforms Explained • i. HD 1500 • i. HD 270 • i. HD-Desktop Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

i. HDTV Explained i. HD 1500 • • Uncompressed SMPTE 292 M 4: 2: 2 Video format 1080 i/60 10 bit Data rate approx 1. 5 gbps Requires: high-end HD capture cards Dual 1 Gige NICS PCI Express PCs Windows XP Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

i. HD 1500 application Latency about 4 frames end to end plus network delay • 4 frames=133 ms or ~ 1/7 sec • Network delay significant (Australia>Philadelphia ~ 250 ms) • Satellite latency about 250 ms per hop • H. 323 devices about 230 ms plus network delay • No significant delay in video equipment Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

SC’ 05 and the i. HD 1500 application Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Software Enhancements i. HD 1500 Enhancements @ SC ‘ 05: • • tile display generated in software Audio mixing in software Audio mix-minus in software Video switching in software SC’ 05 N-Way i. HD 1500 servers now available 24 x 7 • Production uncompressed i. HD video conferencing service • Part of HD video laboratory at University of Washington • Permanent connection via Pacific NW Giga. POP Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

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i. HDTV Explained i. HD 270 (first demonstrated Aug 99) • • Sony HDCamtm compression SDTI data format @270 mbps AJA Xena I/O (Windows version of AJA-Kona) Requires: AJA Xena-HD capture cards Dual Processor P 4 Windows XP Sony HDCam Hardware encoder/decoder Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

High Definition Video to the Desktop i. HD-Desktop FORMATS PLAYERS • MPEG 2 MP@HL • VLC • WMV-HD/VC-1 (720 p/1080 i) • WM 9/10/11 • H. 264, AVC, MPEG-4 • HDV (720 p/1080 i) • Quick. Time/MPEG-4 • VLC Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

i. HDTV: Recent Demonstrations Sept 2005 - i. Grid San Diego • Enhanced HD interactive - USA 118: Global N-Way Uncompressed Interactive Conferencing • Underwater research using HD from SS Thompson – USA 119: 20, 000 Terabits Under the Sea Nov 2005 - SC 05 Seattle • Enhanced HD Interactive Conferencing/HD Storage and capture using SRB (Storage Resource Broker) Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

i. GRID 05 – USA 119 – “Visions ’ 05” Sept 2005 - i. Grid San Diego • First ever live HD/ip from a ship at sea to viewers on shore • Ku-Band equipment upgrade to on-board uplink antenna • Careful RF engineering to design satellite link-budget • Real-time MPEG-2 MP@HL encoding • Ip gateway • Satellite modem 13 mbps on-station at the Endeavour research site 200 miles offshore Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

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Visions ‘ 05 Location – “Endeavour” Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

i. GRID USA 119 Network Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Visions ’ 05 Follow on goals Capture all HD footage to disk in SDTI / HDCam ™ and uncompressed SMPTE 292 M formats Create Metadata engine for scientific annotation Use Digital. Well for storage and retrieval Make available to researchers worldwide as a collaborative effort A demonstration project is underway involving several hours of video Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Bringing Science to your Desktop “Big Networks for Big Science” Using the i. HDTV software suite Research. Channel can deliver realism • Uncompressed HD delivery for collaborative environments • Uncompressed HD for demanding visual applications Visions ’ 05 Neptune The Looking Project Others • Compressed HD in several formats for desktop and home delivery WMV-HD/VC-1 MPEG 2 MP@HL MPEG 4 Part 10/H. 264/AVC Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.

Open Source: Trusted Partnership i. HDTV, Digital. Well • First quarter 2006 • Trusted partnership development group • Soliciting requirements and partners • More information: info@researchchannel. org http: //www. researchchannel. org deroest@researchchannel. org wellings@researchchannel. org Think Forward. Think Research. Channel.