| February, 2007 VIDEO The Future of H.323 and How the Industry is Preparing With all the new codecs on the market today H.323 is going in bigger directions. Since video over IP was initiated, (2002) the basic call speed was 256 or 384 kilobits per second (kbps). Today we have units that are High Definition and they call out at 2 megabits per second (mbps) or better for high quality video. Today's producers of codecs seem to all be going in the high def direction. In the future it will be common to have all units with the high def capabilities and we are currently working with Office of Enterprise Technology to develop Quality of Service that range from low to the high bandwidth demands of high def. Listed below are links to product information pages for three of the major vendors.
Polycom - http://polycom.com/products_services/1,1443,pw-185-17131,00.html
Tandberg - http://www.tandberg.net/products/video_systems/tandberg_3000_mxp.jsp
Lifesize - http://lifesize.com/ Video Migration Strategy METNET was the first region to deploy video over IP in 2002. COMET did a more gradual change over and it was completed in 2005. Currently a migration strategy is being developed for both regions that would include similar vendor platforms that would support the current needs of member institutions plus the features of high definition interactive video. METNET's Polycom infrastructure is nearing the end of its supported life cycle (2009) and COMET's Tandberg infrastructure also needs to be updated. Video Conferencing Meetings conducted via IP were:
January - 127
February - 156 E-MAIL E-mail Update
A second Spam filter was recently added o assist in dealing with the ever increasing volume of spam. This is expected to speed up delivery of e-mail. Also implemented was a new e-mail quota warning message. When an account is within 10% of going over the 50 MB quota, a warning screen will be displayed at log in time.
ONLINE LEARNING Breeze Services
On January 31 Breeze was updated to version 6. The product was re-branded in this new release. Breeze Meeting was renamed "Acrobat Connect Pro 6". Breeze Presenter was renamed "Adobe Presenter". Things have been very stable since the upgrade and SSL is again running. This new version also has more support for the Intel Macintosh allowing for application sharing and screen sharing.
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