WORLDWIDE VIDEOCONFERENCE

Sustaining Global Communities through Videoconferencing

Megaconference V Building A Strong Videoconferencing Community:

At least 187 registered institutions in 28 countries participated remotely (with over 100 viewers watching the streaming video) for the fifth annual Megaconference, a 13 hour videoconference held on 10 December 2003. "By all accounts, this was the best Megaconference ever," reported Bob Dixon, chief organizer and founder of the Megaconferences. The Megaconferences have allowed engineers and technicians to develop tools and technologies to establish H.323 Internet videoconferencing communities in education and research around the world. More than a dozen presenters spoke on the theme of Sustaining Global Communities through Videoconferencing and shared the remote stage with over 10 musicians throughout the world. 16 organizations that had participated in all five Megaconferences were recognized with a special award. Vendors donated a total of 34 prizes to participants, and Polycom and Radvision donated upgrades to the Internet2 Commons multipoint control units at the heart of the Megaconference cascade.

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• Video-on-demand archive provided through the H.323 streaming service of the Internet2 Commons

Megaconference V: The Largest Worldwide Videoconference over Advanced Networks