e-Culture Activities in Korea Sanggyun Kim (ANF Secretariat) Dae Young Kim (Chungnam Univ.) eCultureWorkshop 19th APAN Meenting

Agenda  Background  Networks - NRENs in Korea - Global Link  related Activities - DancingQ TF - Museum WG - Koreav6 - Asian DHX Forum - Demos  Future plan

Background  Advanced Network Forum (ANF) - Non-profit organization for R&E network users in Korea - Supporter: KISDI, NCA, KISTI, ETRI, KT - NOC: KOREN NOC, KREONET NOC - Members : Professors, students and institute researchers  Working Groups & TFTs - Network Technology Area: Measurement, IPv6, Multicast, Mobility/Wireless, Lambda - Application Technology Area: Conferencing, HDTV, VoIP, P2P - eResearch Area: HEP, Earth System - User Communities: Museum, Medicine, Game - TFT: IPv6, HDTV, Culture

NRENs in Korea  KOREN (KOrea advanced REsearch Network) - Administration: NCA (MIC) - Operation : KT - 2.5Gbps Backbone(40G b/w Seoul-Daejeon) - Network technology development, next generation advanced application research (  KREONET/KREONET2 (Korea Research Environment Open NETwork) - A & O : KISTI (MIST) ~ 5 Gbps Backbone(10G b/w Seoul-Daejeon) - SuperSIREN (10G infra in Daejeon area) - Supercomputing, Grid, e-Science. (

Global Links  APII (Asia Pacific Information Infrastructure) - KISDI takes care of APIICC. - US Link : 1.2Gbps (622Mbps *2 ) - China Link : 310Mbps (155Mbps *2) - Japan Link : 1Gbps (H-G Link) - Singapore Link : 8Mbps (ends Jan.2005) (  TEIN (TransEurasia Information Network) - Korea(KOREN) – France (RENATER) - 155Mbps - exchange and cooperation between Asia and Europe ( )

Culture Task Force  Digital Culture eXchange activities  DVTS/HDV over IP with KR, JP, US and other partners

Museum Working Group Dr. Yongmoo Kwon(KIST) lead this team.  Researches - Digital Shilla culture realtime streaming Introduced to Shuyukan High School Fukuoka.Japan. - Network Interaction and 3-dimension model interactive system deployment Sharing 3-dimension culture model interactive system among distributed environment users  Events - Thesis on 3 Dimension virtual museum tech. at VSMM 2004 With researchers from Japan, Germany - Co-host of ICAT2004 (Int’l Conf. of Artificial Reality) Demo of network based 3D culture contents (Dec )

DancingQ cyber performance  KMS Dance meets NGI ( ) - Real time DVTS streaming performance (90min) - Broadcasted to Internet2 and other partners

Buddha on the Net  Digital Heritage Collection - HDV scenes on ‘Buddha’s birthday’ (May.2004) - Lotus lantern parade (over 100,000 light bulb) - VOD service (

Culture on Lightpath  International lightpath provisioning for HD270m  GIST-UPC UCLP Network setup(VLAN)  Receiving Forum Barcelona 2004 streams HD270m Receiver New York (MANLAN) ons-toronto UPC CA*net 4 GÉANT Red IRIS i2CAT ons-nyc OPT_1_1 OPT_1_2 CESCA Juniper M20 BC N Juniper M20 Madrid MPLS TUNNEL VLAN 633 L2 OPT_1_3 HD270m Sender ons-daejeon02 ons-gwangju KREONet2 ons-daejeon01 OSR 7609 ons-winnipeg ons-regina ons-calgary ons-seattle Catalyst 4506 GIST

KOREAv6  National strategic project initiated to promote IPv6 sponsored by NCA (National Computerization Agency)  Supporting of project in KOREAv6 - ANF HDTV Task Force : Development of HDTV apps. - ANF IPv6 Task Force : Development of IPv6 network  Distribution of Digital Heritage over IPv6 (VoD: )

KR-JP TV collaboration  TV broadcast by using R&E infra. - Korea-wave contents televised to JP viewers DVTS PSB TNC from 10:30 to 11:40 on 8 th Jan (Sat.) 2005

KR-JP TV collaboration PIFF PlazaKT Busan PSB TNC

KR-JP TV collaboration Real time scene (DVTS PC) Real time scene (Broadcast scene) Demo Equipment in KT busan (DVTS machine, DV converter)

Asian DHX Forum  at Pukyung Nat’l Univ. sponsored by KISDI.  Digitalization of cultural heritage in Asian counties + Several discussions with panel from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam + Discussion about development of DHX Cooperation

Future plan  Researches - Distributed Virtual Museum deployment (Korea-Japan-Europe) - Tangible Tele-meeting environment deployment - Contents Technology collaboration with China  Other Activities - C ontents gathering through Traditional Events - Share contents with partners for research ( VoD over IPv4/IPv6 or Real-time Broadcast ) - Asian DHX Forum 2005

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