Fwd: Megaconference Press Release (fwd)

Rick Stevens stevens at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Oct 9 12:16:44 CDT 1999



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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:02:05 -0500
From: Robert Olson <olson at mcs.anl.gov>
To: fl-core at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Fwd: Megaconference Press Release 

FYI.

>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:56:52 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Bob Dixon <rdixon at stargate.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>To: CIC Video Working Group <cic_video at anl.gov>
>Subject: Megaconference Press Release
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>OCTOBER 8, 1999
>
>Over 60 national and international research institutions and networking
>organizations will be participating in the Megaconference event scheduled
>for the Internet2 Fall meeting, October 11-13, 1999 in Seattle,
>Washington. The Megaconference is a project of the Video Conferencing
>Subcommittee of the Internet2 Digital Video initiative.
>
>The Megaconference is a permanent, continuous multipoint H.323 Internet
>video conference. The Megaconference event at the Internet2 Fall meeting
>will consist of multiple sites collectively engaging in a live
>demonstration of the capabilities of H.323 video conferencing. Each
>participating institution/organization will have an opportunity to address
>the conference participants, speak to their deployment of H.323, and talk
>about and showcase H.323 applications at their site. The event will begin
>at 9am PST and continue until 3pm PST.
>
>The Megaconference will be the largest H.323 multipoint conference
>conducted to date, and will simultaneously be broadcast on the Internet.
>
>* The Real broadcast is being hosted by The University of Michigan and
>will be available at http://www.itd.umich.edu/umtv/wcfront.html.
>* The QuickTime4 broadcast is being hosted by The University of Tennessee,
>Knoxville and will be available at http://ali.apple.com/events/inet2.
>* The MPEG1 broadcast is being hosted by Penn State University using IBM's
>Video Charger and will be available at
>http://pisces.ctd.anl.gov/IDVn/index.html. (Note that IP Multicast must be
>enabled by your network administrator to receive this broadcast.)
>
>More information on the Megaconference is available at
>http://www.mega-net.net/megaconference.
>





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