SIP in higher education

[Arthur Gaylord <>]

Hi,

I thought the following might be of interest to some of you and perhaps 
the Internet 2 community.  Sometime between Jan. 26-28 there will be a 
conversation between the deep submersible Alvin on the seafloor and the 
space station. This is in part brought about due the the fact the one of 
our Web programmers is the sister of Sunita Williams who is an astronaut 
on spending 6 months on the space station.  The time is a bit uncertain 
because of the unpredictable schedules on both the space station and 
Alvin.

The conversation will be broadcast by NASA TV (both TV and Web.) 
Unfortunately it doesn't directly use Internet 2 but I still thought you 
might find it interesting.  It certainly presents some extremes in human 
communication. I don't know the exact details of the communications 
methods being used but it is definitely VoIP of some form.

More info can be found at

http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=13252

Art

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Arthur S. Gaylord
Director, Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole MA 02543


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