(Fwd) Fwd: First Internet multichannel audio carried on CA*net 3 & Abilene

[Robin Bargar]

Please add my name to this mailing list. 

If anyone has further questions, I am a member of the AES Technical
Committee on Network Audio Systems, and I participated in the planning for
the event described below, and attended the demonstration. 

regards,

Robin Bargar
Research Scientist
Audio Development Group
NCSA

>From: "Loretta Auvil" <lauvil at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:51:53 -0500
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>To: rbargar at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>Subject: (Fwd) Fwd: First Internet multichannel audio carried on CA*net 3
& Abilene
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>Robin,
>
>FYI.... Rick Stevens sent this to the ag-tech maillist.  If you are
already on
>this list and see these messages, then let me know and I won't forward
anthing
>that I think is relative info.
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>-Loretta
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>--- Forwarded mail from Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
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>Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 12:46:14 -0500
>To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>From: Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: Fwd: First Internet multichannel audio carried on CA*net 3 &
>  Abilene
>
>
>>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:15:34 -0400 (EDT)
>>From: CAnet-3-NEWS at canarie.ca
>>Subject: First Internet multichannel audio carried on CA*net 3 & Abilene
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>>For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical
>>Internet program web site at http://www.canet3.net
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>>First Internet real time multichannel audio carried over CA*net 3 & Abilene
>>
>>NYU/MCGILL UNIVERSITY - FIRST REAL-TIME MULTICHANNEL AUDIO INTERNET DEMO
>>FOR 107TH AES CONVENTION
>>
>>NEW YORK, NY: Audio Engineering Society Technical Council Chair Wieslaw
>>Woszczyk (McGill Univ.), and a team of colleagues from the Technical
>>Committee
>>on Network Audio Systems, chaired by Zack Settel (McGill Univ.), have
>>developed two essential real-time demonstrations
>>as companions to the Advanced Networking Workshop [W-13] on Sunday,
>>September 26, at 2:00PM at the Javits Center. Both identical live
>>demonstrations took place at New York University's Cantor Film Center
>>located at 36 East 8th Street, in Greenwich Village at 5:30 and 7:30 PM.
>>
>>The collaborative demos are the first trials of multichannel audio
>>transmission over the internet. They will feature a performance by NYU dance
>>students, who will perform to music provided remotely by a McGill University
>>Swing Band playing live at McGill University's Redpath Hall in Montreal,
>>Canada, under the direction of McGill Prof. Gordon Foote. The music will be
>>acquired as a 5-channel audio signal and streamed to NYU across a
>>high-performance network managed by the Canarie (Canada) and Internet 2
>>(USA)
>>Corporations. Sound reproduction will be in the 300 seat cinema of Cantor
>>Film Center using its 5-channel sound system. Busses will transport
>>attendees
>>from Javits to The Cantor Film Center at 5:00 (no busses at 7:00 PM).
>>
>>"Both demonstrations will be identical, and each will feature two modes of
>>multichanel transmission," Professor Woszczyk reveals. "Level 1 transmission
>>of 48kHz, 16bit, AC-3 compressed (448kbs) audio will make use of existing
>>encoding and decoding hardware provided by Dolby Labs. Level 2 transmission
>>of 96kHz, 24bit, uncompressed (13Mbs) PCM audio will utilize encoding and
>>decoding hardware currently in development by dCS, Ltd. (UK). The underlying
>>software for the demos was developed at McGill University by a team
>>comprised
>>of several members of the AES Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems
>>led by Professor Jeremy Cooperstock. The collaboration of two national
>>networking groups (Canarie Inc. in Canada and Internet 2 Corp. in the USA
>>was
>>essential to creating this first international multichannel live audio
>>transmission over the internet. . The significant investment of time and
>>research by both NYU and McGill University clearly illustrate the importance
>>of advanced networking and its collaborative nature," he concludes.
>>
>>* The Advanced Networking Workshop (W13), chaired by Zack Settel of McGill
>>University (Montreal) and Atau Tanaka, of NetFive Ltd., concentrated on
>>high-performance network engineering, administration, audio streaming,
>>applications development, and live network-based musical performance.
>>
>>zack at music.mcgill.ca
>>Music Faculty, McGill University
>>(1) 514 398 4535 ext. 5633
>>
>>
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>---End of forwarded mail from Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
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	- robin