Thanks for the feedback. I would be glad to meet with you in an AVC-enabled venue and demonstrate the functionality.
Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote: > Andrew, > > This sounds like an incredibly useful application! > > I've just installed it on a Personal Node and don't seem to have had any > difficulties. I haven't had a chance to actually use it yet, but am > looking forward to giving it a test drive. > > - Jennifer > > Andrew Patrick wrote: > > We are pleased to announce an initial alpha trial release of the Access > > Grid > > Venue Customizer (AVC). > > > > AVC is a proof-of-concept shared application for customizing AG virtual > > venues. > > The premise is that different AG meetings organized to perform different > > tasks > > should not have the same services and parameters. Instead, some meetings > > may > > require extra services or different parameter settings. > > > > AVC allows meeting organizers to select from a set of common tasks > (e.g., > > business meetings, collaborative work sessions, distance education, > > etc.) and > > then, when participants enter the venue and run AVC in "user" mode, the > > services > > and parameters are customized for the task. AVC managers are also able > > to create > > their own custom tasks. > > > > AVC is a Shared Application that is compatible with AG 2.3 installations > > where > > the Venue Client is running on a Windows machine (i.e., Windows PIGs or > > multi- > > machine nodes with a Windows display machine). AVC is currently not > > working with > > Linux Venue Clients. > > > > In this initial release, AVC is able to control the quality and > bandwidth > > settings of VIC and RAT. AVC has been built, however, to be able to > > control a > > variety of AG services and shared applications, and this functionality > > will be > > added in future releases. > > > > Typical uses for this release of AVC are: > > > > - configure an important business meeting for the highest possible > > audio and > > video quality when all participants have high bandwidth > > > > - configure a distance education event where some students will have > > limited > > bandwidth to give relatively high priority to video (because of the > > visual > > materials being used in the lesson), and relatively low priority to > audio > > > > - scale a meeting to take into account the minimum bandwidth available > > to the > > participants (e.g., someone is connecting from home) > > > > The software and installation instructions are available at > > > > http://iit130033.iit.nrc.ca/AVC/index.html > > > > Please give AVC a try and give us feedback about the software and the > > concepts. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > The AVC development team is: > > > > At the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa > > Andrew Patrick > > Kenneth Emig > > Janice Singer > > Bruno Emond > > Khalil El Khatib > > Stephen Marsh > > Siraj Sabihuddin (student programmer) > > Changhua Wu (student programmer) > > > > At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver > > Brian Corrie > > Todd Zimmerman > > > > At the Communications Research Center, Ottawa > > Sylvie Noel > > > > For more information about AVC contact: andrew.patr...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca > > > -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada E-mail: andrew.patr...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca WWW - NRC: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca WWW - Personal: http://www.andrewpatrick.ca Phone: (613) 991-3374 Fax: (613) 952-7151 Cell/SMS: (613) 277-9211
