Re: ANL/NREN Test Beacon

Shelly Deixler (mdeixler@mail.arc.nasa.gov)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:47:11 -0700 (PDT)

This is the latest word from Bob Olsen on pushing the ANL test m'cast to 1
mb/s. I will keep everyone updated.

Shelly

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>Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:30:21 -0500
>To: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov>
>From: Robert Olson <olson@mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: Re: ANL/NREN Test Beacon
>Cc: Robert Olson <olson@mcs.anl.gov>, Joe Burrescia <joeb@es.net>,
> Linda Winkler <lwinkler@anl.gov>,
> Ken Freeman <kfreeman@mail.arc.nasa.gov>,
> Shelly Deixler <mdeixler@mail.arc.nasa.gov>,
> Steve Shultz <shultz@arc.nasa.gov>
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>Hugh --
>
>very cool. I'm more than happy to try high-rate multicast -- this is
>something that I've been wanting to do for some time :-). It's true that I
>haven't closely followed the mbone politics lately ... hence my
>conservative outlook.
>
>I just got JPEG encoding working for CAVEav, and was able to generate a
>1Mbps stream from an O2. Haven't tried the Onyx2 yet, but am optimistic. I
>also just heard that RADvision (?) has a hw mpeg encoder that works with an
>Onyx ... so we should be able to do that at some point.
>
>I'm likely not going to be in the office until next week, so tests sourced
>from my end will prolly have to wait until then.
>
>--bob
>