As a part of Networked Visualization for e-Science symposium live uncompressed HD video transmission was demonstrated. Software UltraGrid was used for streaming live video from The Laboratory of Advanced Networking Technologies to SAGE tiled screen at SARA computer and network center. Both places were interconnected through CzechLight’s, StarLight’s and NehterLight’s high-speed fibre links.

The symposium was organized on the occasion of the visit of prof. Thomas DeFanti to the University of Amsterdam. Prof. DeFanti is well known for his groundbreaking work in computer graphics and visualisation and is one of the inventors of the CAVE.

UltraGrid from The Laboratory of Advanced Networking Technologies (ANTLab) is a software for real-time transmissions of

We took part in another two demonstrations of CoUniverse at Spring 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting held in Arlington, VA. Both demonstrations were medical-oriented. The first demo connected the showfloor with National Library of Medicine in  Bethesda, MD while the second one demonstrated a collaboration with Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. The aim of both demostrations was to showhow a “user” can request a capatbility without understanding the technical details of what needs to be setup and how. We have successfully demonstrated that CoUniverse is able to initialize and handle a Dynamic Circuit Network based infrastructure and setup and orchestrate all the videoconferencing SW and HW (UltraGrid and Polycom devices) on top of such infrastructure.