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Video
Conferencing: Telecommunications
and Information Technology Not
long ago, live interactive videoconferencing and distance education
programs between faculty at IU and counterparts abroad had to be
conducted through expensive satellite systems or via multiple telephone
lines at costly international rates.
New developments in Internet telephony are beginning to change
this scenario as technologies improve and bandwidth increases.
At Indiana University, we are witnessing a convergence of data,
telephone, and video services into one basic, integrated digital
transmission infrastructure. Let CIEDA help YOU to put these
technologies and resources to work for your organization! Indiana
University, through a number of recent major developments at the state,
national, and international level, has been able to provide the IU community with unprecedented access to high
bandwidth networks. IU has achieved a position of prominence in
advanced networking through a number of efforts such as
participation in the Internet2 Abilene network, the National
Science Foundation's vBNS
research network, and development of the TransPAC
international research network. Major enhancements to these networks can
be expected to continue over the next few years.
CIEDA,
as a member of the Indiana University community, has access to these
resources and the expertise involved in designing, budgeting, operating
and managing them. Currently,
CIEDA's office is equipped with a modern, interactive compressed video
equipment that carries video/audio signals via satellite, ISDN and POTS
telephone lines to similarly equipped sites throughout the world.
Like the rest of Indiana University, we are also moving to
increased use of the Internet for live, interactive telephony (audio and
video) via Microsoft Net Meeting, Polycom and other Internet
conferencing systems. These
new technologies permit CIEDA to conduct portions of programs or entire
training programs at a distance and in a very cost effective way. In
addition, CIEDA organizes training and technical assistance programs on
the higher education applications of emerging communications
technologies. The use of advanced local, national and international
networks, as well as emerging high performance domestic network
connection technologies such as cable modems, xDSL, satellite and
wireless are transforming the way we work, communicate, learn, retrieve
and store information, and conduct research.
According
to IU's University Information Technology Services Office, examples of
the application of high performance digital networks and distributed
software systems to higher education include: Teaching,
learning, and distributed education - observation and recording
facilities for educational psychology and the scholarship of teaching,
and network mediated collaborative teaching and learning in medicine,
engineering, environmental safety, and business. New
collaboration and communication technologies - spatial
interfaces to large digital libraries, new methods for navigating
virtual spaces, and wireless networks for
interactive collaboration. Sciences
- distributed computational fluid dynamics, remote use of telescopes,
continuous data collection and analysis from large seismic arrays,
remote sensing, Humanities
- archaeological reconstruction, and shared virtual spaces for composing
and playing music. For more information please contact Charles Reafsnyder.
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