(Fwd) Fwd: First Internet multichannel audio carried on CA*net3 & Abilene

[Richard Coffey]

Wow. It's hip to multicast now!
<imagines a certain coca-cola commercial now...>

Cheers,
Richard ;-)

Robin Bargar wrote:

> 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
> >X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94)
> >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.
> >
> >-Loretta
> >
> >
> >--- Forwarded mail from Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
> >
> >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
> >>Sender: owner-testnet at canarie.ca
> >>Apparently-To: <stevens at antares.mcs.anl.gov>
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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
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>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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> >>Senior Director Network Projects
> >>CANARIE
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> >
> >---End of forwarded mail from Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
> >
> >
>
>         - robin