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IP: Two from Edupage -- INTERNET 2'S KILLER APPS and
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 14:06:09 -0400
PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS AND MCI TO OFFER MULTICAST VIDEO Seattle-based Progressive Networks is forming a partnership with MCI to develop a video multicast capability for distributing digital video programs to as many as 50,000 PC users simultaneously. The project is described as the first phase of a technology that will eventually be able to offer digital television at a quality as good as provided by conventional TV broadcasts. (New York Times 5 Aug 97) INTERNET 2'S KILLER APPS Some of the applications being proposed by Internet 2 participants include "virtual laboratories," where researchers in geographically remote locations can don goggles and data gloves to work together with colleagues using centralized lab equipment, and "tele-immersion," where researchers and students at different universities put on headsets to enter a shared workspace for product or architectural design. Advanced digital libraries could track patrons' interests via "user profiles" kept on centralized computers that then automatically e-mailed digital versions of new books or articles that matched a profile. Music scholars could "jam" with musicians around the country. But one of the most difficult applications, says the director of the project's applications group, will be the development of a traffic-regulating system to provide "quality of service" -- a mechanism that will allow a time-sensitive transmission, such as video from an electron microscope, to be given priority over e-mail. (Chronicle of Higher Education 8 Aug 97)
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