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["Lucy E. Lynch" <>]

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Lucy E. Lynch                           Academic User Services
Computing Center                        University of Oregon

                (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:08:47 -0500
From: Jennifer MacDougall 
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To: 

Subject: multicast-events: 3/21 Cerf/Farber Multicast

The University of Pennsylvania will be multicasting this event
tomorrow, Thurs. 3/21 at 4:30 PM (EST). Live questions will also
be accepted from remote viewers using the email form available
at http://www.isc-net.upenn.edu/cerf_farber/.

We will be generating three types of multicast streams for this event.
The primary video codecs used to encode the video are H.261 and MPEG-1
and MPEG-2. You will be able to being testing connections to the
multicast stream starting at 4 PM (EST) on Thursday 3/21.

In SDR the session names will be:

Cerf-Farber MPEG2
Cerf-Farber MPEG1
Cerf-Farber H.261

If you're not using SDR, the session information will be:

MPEG2
video - 233.0.55.16:7772
audio - 233.0.55.17:7774

MPEG1
video - 233.0.55.32:8882
audio - 233.0.55.33:8884

H.261
video - 233.0.55.48:9992
audio - 233.0.55.49:9994

For help with obtaining and configuring multicast client software, see
http://videolab.uoregon.edu/tools/multicast_tools.html.

You can test your multicast connectivity at
http://www.on-the-i.com/mt/index.html

Real Stream

There will also be a live Real Stream broadcast version of this event
(200 streams available). To view the Real Stream broadcast, you will
need Real Player.

The Real Stream is generated by Sure Stream encoder and distributed
using the streaming video server of ISC Networking &
Telecommunications.

The live unicast stream will be available at
http://beansidhe.isc-net.upenn.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/Cerf-Farber

Jennifer MacDougall
Applications Coordinator
MAGPI GigaPoP



------->>>         THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2002             <<<--------

Penn's Information Systems and Computing and School of Engineering
and Applied Science invite you to join Dr. Vint Cerf and Dr. Dave
Farber for a special exclusive talk entitled,

         "The Internet Tidal Wave... is it Inevitable?"
                Dr. Vint Cerf and Dr. Dave Farber

                         Heilmeier Hall
                  First Floor, Towne Building
              Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 4:30 pm

Join two pioneers of the Internet as they discuss its origin
and its future and answer your questions about how we got here
and where we're going next.

Dr. Vint Cerf has been widely heralded as a "father of the Internet"
and is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture
of the Internet. Now senior vice president of Internet architecture
and technology at WorldCom, Cerf is a proponent for the progress of
social and policy issues raised by global networking. For more
background, see http://www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up/.

Dr. Dave Farber has been called "the Paul Revere of Cyberspace" by
Wired magazine and holds appointments in Penn's departments of
Computer and Information Science and Electrical Engineering and at
the Wharton School. He recently served as chief technologist at the
Federal Communications Commission, dealing with issues such as the
convergence of communications and computing technologies and the
infusion of Internet technology into the nation's communications
system. For more background, see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/.

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