[AG-TECH] [announcement] AG Connector release

[NamGon Kim]

Dear all,

I am a member of GIST NML ACE team.
We are working on the Access Grid and we've just released 'AG
Connector', a new multicast connectivity tool for AG that was presented
at the Access Grid Retreat.

AG Connector uses UMTP to restore multicast connectivity in disjoint
multicast networks. Each tunnel endpoint receives multicast data in its
network and relays it to the other tunnel endpoint. The receiving tunnel
endpoint re-multicasts relayed data locally. It consumes less network
bandwidth and with AG Connector, vic and rat do not need to be restarted
(as they do when using the integrated unicast support).

For this release, AG Connector has been developed as a shared
application. You can download the latest version from
http://ace.netmedia.gist.ac.kr/AG_Connector/ <http://ace.netmedia.gist.ac.kr/AG_Connector/> 

It also includes instructions about installing and running AG Connector.

AG Connector is still in development. It might have problems.
Please try AG Connector and send me comments or bug reports.
Any comments will be appreciated.

Lastly, I should say thanks to Tom, Eric and Susanne of AG Team, Argonne
National Laboratory for giving valuable comments and help during
development.

Thanks.

- Namgon Kim (ngkim at netmedia.gist.ac.kr)
   Networked Media Lab. GIST, Korea