[Chapter-delegates] PacINET 2006 keynote speeches

[Victor Castelo]

Although in a different environment, Research and Education Networks,  
the experience ( that Alex knows very well) using multicast to save  
bandwidth, is impressive. The opera transmitted in real time of the  
Opera Oberta project is a very good example:

       http://opera-oberta.liceubarcelona.com/cas/pcas.html

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El 12/01/2007, a las 23:58, Alejandro Pisanty escribió:

> Franck,
>
> at some point, an entreprenuering, or a socially-minded, soul will  
> separate a low-bandwidth audio stream, the PPT slides, and a few  
> fixed-image captions, and re-broadcast or re-save them, for limited  
> bandwidth situations. Not more than 5% of the useful information  
> will be lost, unless the video is a dance lesson!
>
> Is there any project like that among our chapters?
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
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> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Franck Martin wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:41:56 +1200
>> From: Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org>
>> To: Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com>
>> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] PacINET 2006 keynote speeches
>> Indeed,
>>
>> I used to have the same problems in Fiji. Now we have better
>> connectivity. While this type of product is for high bandwidth  
>> country,
>> you have also to realize that other countries will move towards  
>> higher
>> bandwidth making the video available to all slowly.
>>
>> We work with different media. Now that I have the videos digitally  
>> and
>> on the Internet, I can also put them on a CD, or someone in a country
>> with low bandwidth can grab them and duplicate them on a CD for local
>> participants. Many possibilities, it all depends how badly you  
>> want them.
>>
>> They are kind of promotions about the region to more developed  
>> countries
>> as many in the Pacific Islands do not have enough bandwidth at  
>> home or
>> even at work to simply see them.
>>
>> Finally, I'm curious to see the popularity of these products versus
>> putting them on air on TV. We would have to pay a lot for that,  
>> and we
>> certainly don't have these resources. We have to pay our local TV
>> channel to put community videos and you should see the crap they put
>> because they can't afford better...
>>
>> Well, anyhow, different medium, different aims.
>>
>> Alex Gakuru wrote:
>>> On 1/12/07, Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You may want to share these links with your members and other
>>>> interested parties. It seems that google video and other similar
>>>> sites are a good approach to share local initiatives with the  
>>>> rest of
>>>> the world.
>>>
>>> True Franck, but my google video downloader tells me it will take  
>>> more
>>> than 2 days to complete below for a media story.
>>>
>>> ----abstract----
>>> [Courtesy of Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/]
>>>
>>> Van Jacobson's talk:
>>>
>>> http://video.google.com/videoplay? 
>>> docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu
>>>
>>> Today's research community congratulates itself for the success  
>>> of the
>>> internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams  
>>> are the
>>> One
>>> True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows.
>>>
>>> Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous  
>>> sensors,
>>> content distribution, digital divide, third world infrastructure,
>>> etc., are
>>> all poorly served by what's available from either the research
>>> community or
>>> the marketplace. I'll use various strained analogies and contrived
>>> examples
>>> to argue that network research is moribund because the only thing it
>>> knows
>>> how to do is fill in the details of a conversation between two
>>> applications.
>>> Today as in the 60s problems go unsolved due to our tunnel vision  
>>> and not
>>> because of their intrinsic difficulty. And now, like then, simply
>>> changing
>>> our point of view may make many hard things easy.
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>>
>>> /Alex
>>
>> -- 
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>> Franck Martin
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>>
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