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INTERNET2(tm) MULTICAST OF INTERNET OPERATORS CONFERENCE 6-8 FEBRUARY 2000

February 2, 2000 -- The Winter 2000 North American Network Operators Group
meeting (NANOG18) to be held February 6-8 in San Jose, California, will be
netcast using Internet2(tm) Multicast technology. NANOG is an educational
and operational forum for coordination of network operations in North
America. NANOG meetings are organized by Merit Network, Inc., a non-profit
Michigan organization and Internet2 Affiliate Member, and are hosted by
Merit and other organizations around the U.S. and Canada. Scheduled
NANOG18 participants include Scott Bradner of Harvard University, Peter
Lothberg of Sprint and Paul Vixie of the Internet Software Consortium.

Video from the event will be available in H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2
formats. The MPEG encoded streaming video will provide TV-quality viewing.

For complete information about NANOG18 and links to the multicast, see:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0002/

Information about, and assistance in, receiving the Internet2 Multicast of 
NANOG18 is available at:
http://videolab.uoregon.edu/

For more information about NANOG, see:
http://www.nanog.org/

For more information about Internet2 Multicast, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/multicast/

Contact:
Greg Wood
Internet2

+1-202-872-9119

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Subject: ResearchChannel Launches Nationwide on EchoStar's Dish 500 Network
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                        Note: ResearchTV/I2 Working Group Mtg info below.

                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2000
                        Contact: Susan Brandt
                        

                        212-414-4672

ResearchChannel Launches Nationwide on EchoStar's Dish 500 Network

-Viewers Gain "Front Row Seats" to the Latest Scientific Reports from
Country's Leading Research Institutions-

Seattle, WA --The ResearchChannel, the nation's first round-the-clock
research television/Internet channel produced by the country's most highly
acclaimed research institutions, is now transmitting its original
programming to public audiences via EchoStar's Dish 500 Network on channel
9400.

Institutions providing high quality programming for ResearchChannel's
premiere include Duke University, Stanford University, Princeton
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Institutes of
Health, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rice University,
University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of California-San Diego,
University of Colorado, University of Hawaii, University of Maryland,
University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas-Austin, University of
Virginia, and University of Washington.  Programming includes public and
exclusive presentations, interviews, and fieldwork featuring leading
researchers and Nobel laureates representing work that runs the gamut of
studies at research institutions across the country.

"The high quality coverage on the ResearchChannel offers research
institutions the opportunity to share a more candid and accurate point of
view of research," said Gene Block, vice president for research and public
service, University of Virginia.  "This exposure can change people's
perspective on the methodological process of science - not through short
sound bites, but through more thorough understanding and more facts." 

Viewers will have the unique opportunity to access information as it is
reported and described by the scientists involved in research endeavors -
from astronomy, medicine, computer science and engineering, and
oceanography to politics, childhood development, arts and literature, law,
criminology, and much more.

"The launch of the ResearchChannel ushers in a new era of public access to
the research that serves as the foundation of our country's development
and prosperity," said Ed Lazowska, professor and chair, department of
computer science and engineering, University of Washington.  "The founders
of the ResearchChannel are to be congratulated for this unprecedented
effort that contributes a significant resource to our national dialogue
and public understanding of research."

The ResearchChannel is an initiative established in 1996 by a consortium
of leading research institutions with the goals of creating direct access
to public audiences with information about the plethora of research and
development activities in progress across the country - and to experiment
with new technologies to make this possible.  

In addition to traditional satellite distribution technologies, programs
are available through ResearchChannel's website as regular webcasts and
searchable on-demand video.  The ResearchChannel uses its experiments to
ensure the highest quality distribution of better-than-broadcast quality
video over the Internet, and continues to break ground in areas such as
video transfer over the "next generation" Internet.  Generous support for
ResearchChannel's experiments and development is made possible by the
participation of corporate research centers including Sony Electronics,
Inc. and IBM Corp.

                                ***

To receive the ResearchChannel via satellite: EchoStar's DISH 500 Network,
1-800-333-DISH.

To receive the ResearchChannel webcasts and on-demand
video:  www.researchchannel.com

I2/ResearchTV working group meeting - March 8, Rice University, Houston.
Contact Elizabeth Campbell 

 or 206-616-5082 for more
information.

Visit the ResearchChannel in booth 122 at the AAAS Annual Meeting and
Science Innovations Exposition in Washington, DC, Feb 17-22
www.aaas.org/meetings/2000/



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