Internet2 Members Meeting Spring 2002 Getting the Most Out of International Connectivity
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Top 10 business school Ranked #5 (Business Week) Ranked #6 (U.S. News and World Report) Global reach Global Executive MBA program Fuqua School of Business - Europe Relationships in Asia and South America Innovation, leadership Educating thoughtful business leaders, worldwide
Background Needed to expand global reach through physical presence in Europe Maintain daily operations Marketing Planning Residency support Ensure that new campus feels like it is a part of Fuqua as opposed to a “satellite”
Timeline October 1999Cross-continent press conference re: Fuqua School of Business - Europe and plans to locate in Frankfurt, Germany May 2000Opening of offices in Frankfurt August 2000Launch of first Cross Continent MBA class November 2000Telepresence environment online December 2001Telepresence across I2/DFN operational
Telepresence High-performance videoconferencing Life-size images Realistic Eye-to-eye contact across participants
Value/Use of Telepresence for virtual meetings Day-to-day meetings can occur by simply walking into a room Differences between physical meetings 2 rooms instead of 1 Time zone gap Reduced travel Spontaneous, on-demand meetings Global “connectedness”
Fuqua’s Global Conference System Telepresence Environment Telepresence environments/arrays Codec’s Additional audio/video electronics Internet2 access (via Duke University connection) in Durham, NC DFN access in Frankfurt, Germany
Partnerships and Team Members Nortel Networks TeleSuite Corporation Litton Network Access Systems Star Valley Solutions Internet2 DFN
Views of the GCS
Global Conference System Network
Current use at Duke/Fuqua Meetings Tutoring Corporate relationships Student projects
Future uses Expanded corporate relationship support Career placement services Faculty research and collaboration
Telepresence vs. videoconferencing Technology is transparent Talk/interaction is with people not screen or camera Much higher bandwidth required
Performance metrics and parameters Bandwidth requirement (MPEG-2) Latency Full-duplex Error rates
GCS Performance Graph Max In:27.4 Mb/s (2.7%) Average In: kb/s (0.3%) Current In: kb/s (0.2%) Max Out:27.4 Mb/s (2.7%) Average Out: kb/s (0.5%) Current Out: kb/s (0.1%)
Technical challenges Bandwidth Requirements 12Mbps (Each Codec) QOS Security / Encryption Multicast / Unicast
Implications Collaboration Research Business partnerships Travel Connectedness Teaching
Q & A Discussion