High Definition ValleyHDV

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High Definition ValleyHDV

SSVL-OSN to HDV

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SwedishSiliconValleyLink

HighDefinitionValley

HDVIPER

European collaboration between Spain (i2Cat) Poland (Poznań Supercomputing and

Networking Center) Sweden (KTH, KI, Borderlight, Alkit) Etc.

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Global medicine research projects KI today holds conferences with other

medical staffs around the world every week with poor conditions

We hope to better the situation for co-operative research and experiments.

Situation today

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Goal and ObjectiveⅠ

Design and deploy the SSVL network extension • Expand the SSVL network with 10 GbE links

• Kista - Valhallavägen - Solna - Huddinge

• The open-source router • Assess the toolbox • Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM)

Kista

Valhallavägen

Solna

Huddinge

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Goal and ObjectiveⅡ

Evaluate and deploy a videoconferencing service • HDVIPER video conferencing • Capture and encode the video content

Assess potential business and market opportunities

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Goal and Objective Ⅲ

Backstopping and supporting fiber issues of MoRENet project

Methodology

Requirement analysis Background research Design Testing Deployment Maintenance

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Requirement analysis• Key requirements

• High bandwidth network• Open source solution• High Definition video conferencing service

Background research• Recommended tools and technologies

• Fiber optic network• Bifrost router with the corresponding required equipments• HDVIPER solutions

Methodology

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Design and configuration• Key tasks

• Designing the network topology• Estimating the cost• Installing and configuring the software & hardware

components

Testing• Testing the point to point HD video conferencing service

• between two nodes

Methodology

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Deployment :

Methodology

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ValhallavägenC

L

H

L

KistaC

H

Solna Huddinge

CC

L

H

L

H

Phase-1Phase-2Phase-3

M

S

Phase-4Phase-5

C: Capturing & encoding machine L: Full HD display

H: Capture machine S: Switch

M: Multipoint Control Unit

Maintenance• Preparing necessary documents

Methodology

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Contribution Open Source

• Cost effectiveness• Modification• Redistribution

Full High Definition• Telemedicine demands good video quality

10 GE Network Encoding

• H.264, MJPEG,MP3,Speex

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Full HD & SD • Quality and Hardware

High and low bandwidth networks Some common SD & HD formats are given in the graph

Cool Stuff

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Cool Stuff

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Achievements & Challenges

Achievements

• Designed network topology for HDV

• Finalized hardware requirements

• Researched and estimated cost

• Tested real time streaming using VLC, confero

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Challenges

Procuring Hardware Procuring Software

• MCU Reflector • Confero

Making a good test bed Encoding issues

Order hardware Phase 1 Aquire MCU/Confero from Alkit Business analysis of HDVIPER

Next step...

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Available Hardware analysis, Work Package 2 (WP2), HDVIPER High Definition

Report on video codecs, formats and scalable coding formats, Work Package 3 (WP3), HDVIPER High Definition Videoconferencing over IP EnviRonment; Publication date 2008-07-03

Architecture of network services, Work Package 5 (WP5), HDVIPER High Definition Videoconferencing over IP EnviRonment; Publication date 2008-07-21

Videoconferencing over IP EnviRonment; Publication date 9-04-08 HDVIPER homepage. http://hdviper.org/index.html, Last Access Time: 8th Sep

2008. Bifrost homepage. http://bifrost.slu.se/, Last Access Time: 8th Sep 2008.

References

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Thank you for listening

- find more information @http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/csd/projects/0821113/

Questions?

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