Campus Video Streaming Project Update CHECO Fall 2006 Chad Burnham University of Denver

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Overview of Topics  Phase 1 Design  Current Customers  Upcoming & Future Customers  Vendor Experiences  Phase 2 Design Options

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Phase One  Flash Media Server  Apple Quick Time Server & xRAID  Kasenna OmniBase Server  Apple G5 Encoding Station  Various Software Encoding Packages on high end workstations

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Current Streaming Customers  Penrose Library –Faculty Reserves – 67 videos & growing!  Collaborative Digitization Project –Audio tracks & growing  Center for Teaching & Learning – Portfolio Project –170 Students with Audio recordings & Playback  Center for Teaching & Learning’s / Penrose Library ”Streamedia” streaming video project –750 unique students / spring quarter 65 titles  Lamont School of Music –Evolution of Rock audio delivery

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Current Customers Con’t  Graduate School of Social Work –Video delivery - 4 videos – distance students  Foreign Languages Department –Recording tools (French driven)  University College –Languages audio delivery tool - 9 Classes  Office of Communication Management - Chancellor Events, Wind Project media conference, Summer ’06 Commencement  Daniels College of Business - Test bed –Video Translations Module

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Upcoming & Future Customers  Penrose Library –Corporate Collection – 200 most common videos –Oral Histories - Special Collections  Collaborative Digitization Project –Video in the near future –Oral Histories  Office of Communication Management –Campus Tour –Perspective Student Interviews –Evans Professor event, Etc…  Daniels College of Business –Ed-Tech - Rich Media Initiative

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Upcoming &Future Customers Con’t  Career Center  Graduate School of Social Work –Lots of Video to encode, catalog & present  Center for Teaching & Leaning –Portfolio - Allowing students to upload content to stream –Digital Object Repository Application (DORA) –DORA/DUVAGA 2 application  Lamont School of Music –Theory Server

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Upcoming &Future Customers Con’t  Faculty Pod Casting  College of Law  Digital Media Studies –Student Video/Media Projects  Languages and Literature –Foreign Language Audio Tracks

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Production, Deployment & Archival of Content  Moving target as technology grows  Support Flowchart needed: –Faculty content – CTL / Library –Archive – Who decides? –Live Events – Multimedia service model –Outsource/Partner the large audience events to hosting provider

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Vendor Experiences - Kasenna  Not happy with Kasenna appliance overall  Poor support  Poor/incorrect documentation  Did not deliver a “hands-off OS” as expected / promised –EG. security patches, updates broke appliance –Advised to not do security patches  Purchased one small appliance to minimize risk  Wanted to sell us “professional services”

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Vendor Experiences - Apple  Training was very useful  Server product line is limited, but works for our scale, expectations, & budget  Phase 1 Storage, an xRAID (DAS), works for our scale, expectations & budget  Phase 2 Storage funding makes this more of a true SAN model (xSAN / StorNext) –Deployment enables a clustered file solution that can scale to both QuickTime and Flash –Multiple systems to access the same data –xRAID is a limited availability (Single Controller)

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Vendor Experiences – Con’t Adobe / Flash  Adobe/Macromedia merger occurred during phase one.  More favorable licensing model  Happy with Dell hardware  Leveraging the Flash code platform. Can do more than just video; audio, web conferencing, reporting. Custom media manipulation tools  Flash code base is now 10 years old

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Vendor Experiences – Con’t V. Brick  Company has been very generous with two Demo Units  MPEG 4 Part 10 (Not H.264)  Would like to see H.264 Unit… –Will not tell us when  Evaluated unit for live events

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Viewcast Niagara Osprey Portable Encoder  1 st Unit arrived dead / after 3 RMAs –Lemon Law – New unit  Manufacturer is anxious for success story  Have had working for 1 week – will use for internal “Peace-Jam” broadcast  WMV, Flash, Real, Today, H.264 Part 10 due out 4 th Qtr

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Problem: Disk Space  Flash server is quickly reaching capacity  Flash content is growing fast! –Phase 2 would allow access to the SAN

CHECO Fall Conference Chad Burnham Phase 2 Architecture Diagrams – Possible Storage Options:  With Apple  Without Apple: –Lower Cost Stand-Alone HA SAN –Expand Production HA Hitachi TagStore

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