[AG-TECH] announcing the Access Grid Venue Customizer (AVC)

[Andrew Patrick]

Thanks for the feedback. I would be glad to meet with you in an AVC-enabled 
venue and demonstrate the functionality.

Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> This sounds like an incredibly useful application!
> 
> I've just installed it on a Personal Node and don't seem to have had any
> difficulties. I haven't had a chance to actually use it yet, but am
> looking forward to giving it a test drive.
> 
> - Jennifer
> 
> Andrew Patrick wrote:
>  > We are pleased to announce an initial alpha trial release of the Access
>  > Grid
>  > Venue Customizer (AVC).
>  >
>  > AVC is a proof-of-concept shared application for customizing AG virtual
>  > venues.
>  > The premise is that different AG meetings organized to perform different
>  > tasks
>  > should not have the same services and parameters. Instead, some meetings
>  > may
>  > require extra services or different parameter settings.
>  >
>  > AVC allows meeting organizers to select from a set of common tasks 
> (e.g.,
>  > business meetings, collaborative work sessions, distance education,
>  > etc.) and
>  > then, when participants enter the venue and run AVC in "user" mode, the
>  > services
>  > and parameters are customized for the task. AVC managers are also able
>  > to create
>  > their own custom tasks.
>  >
>  > AVC is a Shared Application that is compatible with AG 2.3 installations
>  > where
>  > the Venue Client is running on a Windows machine (i.e., Windows PIGs or
>  > multi-
>  > machine nodes with a Windows display machine). AVC is currently not
>  > working with
>  > Linux Venue Clients.
>  >
>  > In this initial release, AVC is able to control the quality and 
> bandwidth
>  > settings of VIC and RAT. AVC has been built, however, to be able to
>  > control a
>  > variety of AG services and shared applications, and this functionality
>  > will be
>  > added in future releases.
>  >
>  > Typical uses for this release of AVC are:
>  >
>  >   - configure an important business meeting for the highest possible
>  > audio and
>  >   video quality when all participants have high bandwidth
>  >
>  >   - configure a distance education event where some students will have
>  > limited
>  >   bandwidth to give relatively high priority to video (because of the
>  > visual
>  >   materials being used in the lesson), and relatively low priority to 
> audio
>  >
>  >   - scale a meeting to take into account the minimum bandwidth available
>  > to the
>  >   participants (e.g., someone is connecting from home)
>  >
>  > The software and installation instructions are available at
>  >
>  > http://iit130033.iit.nrc.ca/AVC/index.html
>  >
>  > Please give AVC a try and give us feedback about the software and the
>  > concepts.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  >
>  > The AVC development team is:
>  >
>  > At the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
>  >   Andrew Patrick
>  >   Kenneth Emig
>  >   Janice Singer
>  >   Bruno Emond
>  >   Khalil El Khatib
>  >   Stephen Marsh
>  >   Siraj Sabihuddin (student programmer)
>  >   Changhua Wu (student programmer)
>  >
>  > At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
>  >   Brian Corrie
>  >   Todd Zimmerman
>  >
>  > At the Communications Research Center, Ottawa
>  >   Sylvie Noel
>  >
>  > For more information about AVC contact: Andrew.Patrick at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
>  >
> 

-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada
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