Prof. Smarr/Prof. Murai HDTV@JGN2 Symposium 2005

What's Next

• Once again at iGrid2005?

Photos

"i-Visto" Team@Venue and "iHD1500" Team@UW, sorry I forgot to take "iHD1500" Team@Venue....Uhyo and Me!

• Please check kudo's web!

Testing Status

1. CompressedHD(NA3000) Video/Audio: OK UW<->Venue, UW->Venue
2. UncompressedHD(iHD3000) Video/Audio: OK UW->Venue, (DEMUX was broken)
3. DVTS Video/Audio: OK UW<-Venue or UW->Venue
4. Polycom: will not use
5. TelephoneBridge: pending UW<->Venue If you need to call please call my cell +81-90-8850-6823
6. PPT machine: OK
7. UncompressedHD(i-Visto) Video/Audio: OK SFC<->Venue
8. DVTS Video/Audio: OK SFC<->Venue

Network Equipments

RemoteDesktop (WindowsXP Professinal+Office English): 203.178.140.36 nict/jgn, jgn(VNC) (Available on 1/16 10:00 JST)
iPerf@T-LEX: vlan940: 203.178.140.69
iPerf@OSA: vlan940: 203.178.140.70

A/V Input/Output@Venue

Communication Channel

Telephone Bridge@UW:

Telephone Bridge@Venue: +81-6-4803-6357 (Available on 1/16-18)

IRC@US: vps.hasebe.info:4641 #uw

IRC@JP: par.sfc.wide.ad.jp:4641 #uw

Network Connection@Venue

IP88:
Port0/8,vlan940,1000BASE-T
Port0/9,vlan945,1000BASE-T

Summit24:uplink to gs4k.GCO nif 1/7
Port1  VLAN950(WIDE) DVTS-send 10.30.50.80
Port2  VLAN950(WIDE) DVTS-recv 10.30.50.81
Port3  VLAN950(WIDE)
Port4  VLAN950(WIDE)
Port5  VLAN955(UW)   NA3000 203.178.140.35
Port6  VLAN955(UW)
Port7  VLAN955(UW)
Port8  VLAN955(UW)
Port9  VLAN107(JGN2-Internet) uhyo
Port10 VLAN107(JGN2-Internet) kimiyasu
Port11 VLAN107(JGN2-Internet) honda
Port12 VLAN107(JGN2-Internet) hasebe
Port13 
Port14 
Port15 
Port16 
Port17 
Port18 
Port19 VLAN3405(DVTS-Tohoku)
Port20 VLAN3405(DVTS-Tohoku)
Port21 VLAN129(NICT-Hawaii)
Port22 VLAN129(NICT-Hawaii)
Port23 VLAN4001(VoIP)
Port24 VLAN4001(VoIP)
Port25 VLAN107/129/950/955/4001 tagged

IEEAF network configuration

ONS-15454@Tokyo
Usage           Compressed      spare           Uncompress-1    Uncompress-2
UWBR3 address   203.178.140.33                  203.178.140.65  203.178.140.81
Netmask         /27                             /28             /28
Circuit Name    Seattle#1       Seattle#2       Seattle#3       Seattle#4
OC-192 Timeslot 1-24            25-48           49-72           73-96
ML1000 slot     1               1               2               2
POS on ML       pos0            pos1            pos0            pos1
GbE on ML       giga0           giga1           giga0           giga1
BI15000 to SEA  ether5/1        ether5/2        ether5/3        ether5/4
tagged?         untagged        untagged        untagged        untagged
BI15000 IP(*1)  203.178.140.34  198.107.144.118 203.178.140.66  203.178.140.82
VLAN in JP      955             -               940             945
BI15000 to KIX  ether3/1(10G)                   ether7/1(10G)   ether7/1(10G)
JGN Border      ndojima-gs4k-1                  note-gs4k-1     note-gs4k-1
To get JGN      WIDE(*2)        -               direct(*3)       direct(*3)
MTU             1500            1500            9000            9000

*1: the IP addresses assigned BI15000 are only for testing.
*2: Hasebe san configured/confirmed the VLAN over WIDE to get Osaka
    203.178.140.62 has been assigned to a Catalyst6500 in WIDE Dojima
*3: access to JGN has been established by a shared 10GE, tagged

the summary of our plan

Monday January 17th
Larry Smarr on HDTV from UW/Research Channel in Seattle to JGN II Symposium
in Osaka

2:00 - 5:00 Studio Rehearsal and prep in Seattle; test all systems to Japan
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner break in Seattle
7:00 - 8:00 Make-up and final preparations at the Research Channel
8:30 - 9:10 Live transmission to JGN II from the Research Channel

JGN II KEYNOTE Live transmission: JANUARY 17 MONDAY 20:30 - 21:10 PST =
1JANUARY 18 TUESDAY 3:30 - 14:10 JST

40 MINUTE SESSION PLAN

A) Stand-by prior to start by showing Research Channel graphic, shot
close-up with HD camera

B) When we're ready to start the formal "session" change camera to wide shot
5 MINUTES -- Welcoming remarks from Prof. Aoyama; Laurin Herr to make
introductions of Larry Smarr and UW/Research Channel people gathered around
a conference table in the Seattle studio. Laurin to pass off to Larry Smarr.

C) Change camera to medium shot focused on Larry Smarr with "over the
shoulder" plasma display in-frame showing his Powerpoint slides.
30 MINUTES -- Larry Smarr's Keynote Speech with Powerpoints

D) At the end of his speech, Larry will invite questions from Osaka. Prof.
Aoyama will coordinate Q&A on the Japan side
4 MINUTES -- Q&A

E) Change camera to wide shot. Larry and others say "Good night from
Seattle" and we end session.
1 MINUTE- Close

ALL TIMES ARE ESTIMATES
------------------------

HDTV BACK-UP PROPOSAL

Natalie and I also had a working lunch today with Mike Wellings and Jim from
UW/Reach Channel in the Bay Area. Face-to-face discussions were very
efficient. We reviewed several options for establishing a practical back-up
architecture to protect the continuity of the "live symposium" in Osaka in
case the 1.5 Gbps primary feed of uncompressed HDTV via Chicago were to
architecture to protect the continuity of the "live symposium" in Osaka in
case the 1.5 Gbps primary feed of uncompressed HDTV via Chicago were to
unexpectedly fail.

First option was to pre-record Larry Smarr on HDCAM tape in San Diego next
week and Fedex the tape to Japan in advance. Unfortunately, this won't work
because of Professor Smarr's tight schedule between now and January 17th.

Second option was to record Prof. Smarr on HDCAM tape in the Seattle studio
during rehearsal early in the day of the 17th and then prepare a compressed
video file for store-and-forward network transfer from Seattle to Osaka.
This turns out to not be practical given the several hours of
post-production and encoding time that would be necessary in Seattle on the
17th, epecially with Research Channel human resources spread thin
simultaneously supporting multiple simultaneous events (the other event is
in Hawaii).

The third option we discussed at lunch today, and which we finally agreed
was the best approach, is to use the MPEG2 HDTV codecs that are already in
Seattle on loan from NTT -- thank you Uose-san and Fujii-san -- to generate
a secondary back-up feed of compressed HDTV. These are the same codecs that
Katsuyuki mentioned in his email earlier today.

The key is to generate the compressed back-up feed on-the-fly, in parallel
with the primary uncompressed HDTV feed. The compressed feed will lag the
uncompressed feed a several frames, maybe even a few seconds, due to codec
latency. But  the back-up feed of compressed HDTV will only be 50 Mbps so we
hope it can be routed straight from Seattle to Tokyo via IEEAF, saving some
transit time compared to the uncompressed feed which must go "long way
around" via StarLight in Chicago to JGN II. In any case, we do not believe
it is necessary for the primary and back-up feeds to be perfectly
synchronized for the JGN II event.

To implement this back-up strategy, we request that the networking team in
Japan provision network capacity from Tokyo to Osaka for two (2) parallel
video streams. The primary stream of uncompressed HDTV at 1.5 Gbps will
"terminate" at the iHD1500 client in Osaka and output video as HD-SDI and
audio as AES/EBU. The back-up stream of compressed HDTV at 50 Mbps will
"terminate" at the NA3000 MPEG2 decoder in Osaka and output video as HD-SDI
and audio as AES/EBU. The AV set-up in Osaka should then be configured to
accept either of these pairs of audio/video signals and send one of them
(either primary or back-up) to the HD projector and audio mixer/speakers in
the Symposium hall.

Mike and I think this is a reasonable approach from the "television"
perspective, but we also recognize that what we're proposing might make the
networking and the audio/video configuration  in Osaka a bit more
complicated. So we look forward to discussing in more detail during
Thursday's conference call to confirm feasibility.

RETURN HDTV FEED PROPOSAL

If everyone agrees that our "back-up" proposal described above is feasible,
then we would like to further propose adding a "return feed" from the Osaka
symposium to Seattle via IEEAF, again using compressed MPEG 2 HDTV. Mike can
connect his NA 2000 decoder in Seattle to an HDTV monitor in the Research
Channel studio so Larry Smarr and others can see people in Osaka,
connect his NA 2000 decoder in Seattle to an HDTV monitor in the Research
Channel studio so Larry Smarr and others can see people in Osaka,
more-or-less in real time.  I have heard that there is an HDTV camera
available in Osaka and that Uose-san and Mike Welling both have full sets
each of encoder/decoder units. So it seems like we have the pieces in place.
Again, we look forward to discussing in more detail during Thursday's
conference call to confirm feasibility.

AUDIO DETAILS

Regarding audio, Mike Welling will explain further during Thursday's
con-call, but generally his proposal is to send the audio feed from Larry
Smarr's microphone over the network as embedded audio (audio multiplexed
with video) within the 1.5 Gbps HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M) input to his network
transmission system. The iHD1500 "client" systems that UW/Research Channel
will ship to Tokyo will de-embed (de-mux) the audio and output AES/EBU
digital audio via two short  "pig-tail" connectors (in addition to HD-SDI
video output.)

The back-up compressed feed will also carry embedded audio, I believe. And
the NA3000 in Osaka will do the de-embedding and output AES/EBU digital
audio. (MIKE - PLZ CONFIRM.)

For the audio "return feed" from Osaka to Seattle, to be used for Prof.
Aoyama's welcoming remarks and Q&A,  Mike recommends establishing a
telephone "bridge circuit" separate from all the other video-over-IP paths.
He also recommends everyone in the Seattle studio use IFB audio earphones
instead of studio monitor speakers. In his experience. This set-up reduces
audio latency and echo problems for international exchanges like this.

POWERPOINT DETAILS

Regarding Larry Smarr's Powerpoints for his speech, we're assuming that
there will be a separate Powerpoint display for the Symposium audience, in
addition to the live HDTV display of Larry talking. Please confirm this
arrangement.

Larry's Powerpoints will also be displayed on a plasma screen in the Seattle
studio and this will be included "in-frame" by the HDTV camera shooting
Larry's speech.

The Research Channel team suggests sending Larry's final Powerpoint file to
Osaka just before the live speech, then having the Powerpoints loaded onto a
local computer provided by JGN II/NICT in Osaka which will be connected via
regular Internet to Seattle such that Larry can slave the Osaka computer to
his laptop in Seattle so he can control the timing of his own slides
remotely. I'd like to confirm feasibility on this during Thursday's
conference call, as well.

The notes from Jan 12.

Seattle         Tokyo
--------        -------
Wed Jan. 12     Thurs Jan. 13
5:00pm          10:00am

ATTENDING: Bill Mar, Brian Boyd, Akira Kato, Dave Sinn, Dave McGaugh, Dave
Ruddick, Noriatsu Kudo, Katsuhiro Horiba, Geoff Lakeman, Laurin Herr,
Natalie Van Osdol, Noah Pitzer, Jim DeRoest, Kathleen McMonigal, Mike
Wellings, Katsuyuki Hasebe, Jan Eveleth

1) Network paths and configurations

      o IEEAF circuit
      ---------------
4 GbE circuits are configured between Tokyo and Seattle: 2 are for the
uncompressed 1.5Gbps HD; 1 for the MPEG2 compressed HD; and 1 as a backup.
MTU framing (jumbo for the uncompressed HD, standard for MPEG2) confirmed
between these two points as well.

The engineers will exchange information related to IP addressing of
gateways and application boxes on both sides and whose (WIDE or UW)
address blocks to use.

      o JGNII circuit (including pathway from Seattle - Chicago)
      ----------------------------------------------------------
KDDI in LA just got photo from Wiltel: there was an avalanche. The fiber
is not expected to be operable within the next few days. However, JGN
network will be used to carry uncompressed HD from Tokyo to Osaka. [NOTE:
update in email of Jan. 13 from Jin Tanaka that there is some level of
restoration completed of this fiber path, with more details to follow.]

      o Seattle local
      ---------------
Network configurations complete. Waiting on iperf boxes and or application
boxes to be installed/connected at both ends to proceed with testing.

      o Tokyo <--> Osaka <--> presentation venue
      ------------------------------------------
Two GbE for the uncompressed  demo will be carried by JGN to venue.
WIDE will carry the compressed MPEG2 stream on a path independent (except
for the last mile to the venue where fiber is shared).

      o test plans and schedules
      --------------------------
1.5Gbps HD gear expected to be received in Osaka, unpacked and set-up
completed by Friday early morning (Pacific time).

Akira will prepare an iperf host at TLEX using an address from the UW
block so trans-Pacific piece can be tested. He will also request that an
iperf machine be put in place in Osaka as well. Comparable iperf boxes
will be located in Seattle. This testing can begin as soon as there is
confirmation the iperf boxes are set-up.

2) A/V applications

      o 1.5Gbps HD video
      ------------------
        - equipment ship status
        -----------------------
Clearing customs in Narita; being taken to Osaka Friday morning.
Hasebe-san will arrive Friday afternoon (Osaka time).  [NOTE: In Jan. 13
report from Hasebe-san, the equipment has cleared customs and is on its
way to Osaka.]

By Saturday morning Osaka time (late Friday afternoon Pacific)
Osaka-side will be ready to begin testing with video.

        - equipment configuration
        --------------------------
Upon receipt of the equipment in Osaka, the Osaka team needs to do the
following:

o unpack the gear;
o cable it per the enclosed diagram;
o boot the systems;
o configure the IP addresses of the two NICs;
o provide the IP addresses to Mike Wellings and Noah Pitzer.

No other configuration of the equipment should be required.  (Two
identical application systems were provided: one is just for backup.)

Upon receiving the IP addresses of the gear in Osaka, the Seattle team
will log in remotely (vnc) to the boxes and begin the HD application
testing.

The OS of the systems is Windows XP.

      o MPEG2 equipment and configuration
      -----------------------------------

MPEG2 link can be setup and tested as soon as they are set-up in Osaka.
Seattle side will be ready in the afternoon of the 13th (Seattle time). As
soon as the link is established in Osaka and the gear
installed/configured, again send the IP info to Mike Wellings, Dave
Robertson, and Noah Pitzer. Seattle will provide the IP addresses of the
boxes here as well to the Osaka team.

What will the return video of the MPEG2 be? A wide shot. It won't
be shown in Osaka; but it will be for Larry Smarr to see what the venue
looks like.


      o test plans and schedules
      ----------------------------
Seattle 1.5G HD gear will be set up on Friday Jan. 14th. App person (Matt
Hodge) will be online (from Hawaii) again on the 14th late or Saturday the
15th. Will plan to do testing on the Saturday the 15th (Seattle time).

Seattle will be ready to test 1.5G HD Saturday Jan. 15th Mail Mike and cc:
Noah Pitzer.

Osaka team needs to confirm that the A/V coordinator there has plans
completed for taking the output from 1.5G HD system into the projection
system.  Also needs to confirm that there are microphones and HD camera to
create a feedback video (via MPEG2) back to Seattle.

Polycom will *not* be setup in the Seattle studio.

BACKUP procedures: If the main 1.5G uncompressed link fails, we'll switch
to the compressed MPEG2 HD link. If that link fails, we'll move Prof.
Smarr to the DVTS unit and proceed with DVTS.

      o phone-Audio Bridge (one at each location)
      -------------------------------------------

An open phone connection from Osaka to Seattle will be established so that
questions can be asked to Larry. We need a phone number for the Osaka
venue. Seattle will dial our audio bridge into the Osaka audio bridge.
Hasebe-san will send the phone number by email.

Larry Smarr and Laurin Herr need earphones for phone lines.

Since the phone audio won't go to tape, the questions from the audience
should be repeated by Laurin or Larry so it will be on the tape.

      o powerpoint and remote desktop/VNC
      ------------------------------------

The powerpoint presentation will be on a pc in Osaka and Larry Smarr will
remote-desktop (or vnc) to the machine and run the PowerPoint remotely.
We'll need to get his Powerpoint to the machine in Osaka and then we'll
need the IP address and a login so that we can remotely login to this
machine.

JimD did a remote presentation from Seattle to Halifax: remote-desktop
from JimD laptop and it was displayed in Halifax. Using Windows XP on both
ends. Set-up VNC on both ends and will use this as another option if
remote-desktop doesn't work. Will need IP and password if using VNC.

First draft of powerpoint will be to the translators by end of day on
Friday (Pacific time). Need to get finals to Osaka at the last minute.
Kathleen McMonigal will coordinate having the final
powerpoint made available on an unlinked ResearchChannel website URL so
that the team in Osaka can download it.


3) Production Site details/logistics
      o Seattle
      ---------
Backdrop poster with JGNII logo and a picture of Mt. Rainier looking
through campus. This will be the establishing (still) shot.

      o Osaka venue
      -------------
Until Larry Smarr's presentation, the above still shot will be all that
will be seen.

      o Rehearsal Schedules for the 17th (Seattle) /18th (Japan)
      ----------------------------------------

Arr at 2:00pm on the 17th. Studio rehearsal until 5:00. Short dinner
break. Come back for makeup and be ready for on-air time at 8:30.

The general flow of the live transmission:

Prof. Aoyama in Osaka will welcome the group. Laurin will be in Seattle
and be the Seattle MC. Wide shot of a conference room. At the table will
be Larry, Amy, and Ron Johnson. Laurin will introduce them. Ron may speak
briefly. Then Larry will start his Keynote speech.  Camera will zoom in to
him and the projection screen that shows his laptop powerpoint. On the
HDTV projector in Osaka, they'll see Larry's head and his powerpoint
display. In Osaka will be a second projector with the laptop running the
Powerpoint as well. Allowing 25 minutes for Larry's talk. 5 minutes
remaining: 4 for Q&A; 1 minute for goodbye. Questions will be prepared in
advance and asked in English. Probably time for 2 questions. At the last
minute, mic will go back to Laurin and there will be a farewell shot of
the folks in Seattle to wave goodby to the folks in Osaka.

Podium mic better for Larry to keep him in place. Ron's mic could be a
handheld.

4) Event Day Communications

      o contact list
      ---------------
Jan Eveleth will send out the current version of the contact list.

      o site coordinators and translators
      ------------------------------------

Backchannel line for the crews: Seattle will provide one phone number for
one person in Japan to talk to the producer/director and crew in Seattle.

Noriatsu Kudo and Katsuhiro Horiba will be in the Seattle Kane Hall
control room using IRC (in Japanese) in contact with the Japanese crew
during the for the event.

Jan Eveleth will arrange for UW network access for the visitors that day.

Audio from Osaka to Seattle: question audio will be sent to the phone
bridge and the MPEG2 compressed stream.