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+ | ====== Background for the CoIP project ====== | ||
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+ | A set of events and experiences have let to the decision of starting a conducting-over-ip (CoIP) project. | ||
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+ | * UNINETT has some history in taking initiatives and participate in multi-media related demonstrations and experiments involving the Internet. | ||
+ | * UNINETT has been performing measurement on international connections for some years. Measurement show that the quality of the [[ # | ||
+ | * Department of Telematics has a growing research group investigating [[ | future tele-presence architectures ]], i.e. how an advanced video telephone should operate. Users should have eye contact, see and hear each other in 3D, and ultimately forget all about the technology interconnecting them. | ||
+ | * Music collaboration over the internet is becoming popular, however due to delay constraints professional performers struggle to feel comfortable and perform optimally when online. A number of music collaboration experiments have been completed in the last decade, however the majority of the successful ones have relied on dedicated network resources. | ||
+ | * A church choir helds their performances typically in large church halls where acoustic delay and distortions are very common and indeed a part of the music genre. The choir conductor applies visual cues so conduct the choir. How well a choir can cope with visual delay is not well known. | ||
+ | * One of the conductors of Nidaros Cathedral choir has been on leave of absence in the Berkely, USA. | ||
+ | * Recently technical equipment has become available comencially which should enable high resolution and low delay transmission of realtime video-streams across internet connections. | ||
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+ | These events spiked the idea of putting together a " | ||
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+ | ==== What is the academic internet? ==== | ||
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+ | The over all internet is essentially a network of networks. Tens of thousends of companies, research and academic institutions operate their own IP based networks. They are call //Internet Service Providers (ISP)//. All these ISPs are interconnected, | ||
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+ | Most countries in the world have a dedicated research and educational ISP known as a [[ http:// | ||
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