# Presentation: 887926

## RCWG Update

- Sheila Cisko, Chair
- Fermilab

**ESCC**

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- July 23, 2008

## Topics

- RCWG membership
- ECS stats
- ECS status
- Recent activities
- Future activities
- Contact Information

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## RCWG Membership

- 	Sheila Cisko,
- 	Chair  	Fermilab
- 	Alan Sill 	Texas Tech University
- 	Andy
- 	Kromphardt	University of IowaCarl Scimeca  	Princeton Plasma 			Physics Lab
- 	Chris Masullo 	Brookhaven National Lab
- 	Christian Helft   IN2P3-LAL
- 	Deb Agarwal     	LBNL
-    	Ed Ritenour      	LBNLGheni Abla	General Atomics
- 	Janine Jensen 	Pacific Northwest National 		Lab
- 	Jim DeKock	University of Wisconsin
- 	Jim Berry 	Sandia National Lab
- 	Joao Fernandes	CERN/EVO
- 	Josh Stillerman 	MIT
- 	Karl Pommer 	Los Alamos National Lab

- 	Kars Ohrenberg 	     DESYKnut Bjorkli	     CERN
-       K. Estelle Dodson   NASA Ames Research 			     Center
-       Margaret McMurray UTexas-TACC     Martin Jara 	     LBNL
- 	Paul Domagla         ANLReinhard Eisberg    DESY
-       Rich Horwitz          BNL
-       Sabah Salih  	     University of Manchester
- 	Stan Kluz 	     ESnet
- 	Philippe Galvez 	     Caltech/EVO
- 	Steven Goldfarb     University of Michigan
- 	Thomas Baron 	     CERN
-       Tom Hayden          ANL HEP
- 	Thomas Uram 	     ANL/Access Grid
- 	Terry Schalk	     University of California – 			     Santa Cruz

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## ECS Stats Jan08 to June08

- H323 MCUs (ad-hoc)
- Total registrants 1852 (1694 12/07)
- Average # of hrs per month: 4308 (3331 12/07)
- Total number of meetings: 12,881
- 							(13,220 12/07)
- Average # of mtgs per month: 2113 (2203 12/07)
- No data for # of registered endpoints
- Audio/data MCU (reserved resources)
- Total registrants 818 (746 12/07)
- Average # of ports hrs per month:2585 (2049 12/07)
- Total number of meetings: 5093 (5783 in 12/07)
- Average # of mtgs per month: 849 (826 in 12/07)

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## ECS Status - Infrastructure

- Updated Radvision gatekeeper & server
- Dev. Tandberg gatekeeper + GDS issue
- required outage to MCU1 w/ minimal or no impact to users
- All systems operating normally

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## ECS Status - Operations

- Generally working well
- Responsive to need for upgrades
- due to high port utilization
- FNAL using for collaboration-wide strategy meetings
- EVO connections
- introduction of HD endpoints
- higher density MCU will replace multiple MCUs
- Tandberg gatekeeper=TMS for stats

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## ECS Status – Operations (cont’d)

- Concerns
- Need for proactive discussions with TKO on technology investigations
- new tools & applications
- Open Source Linux and Mac H323 solutions
- audio bridging
- web conferencing solutions
- meeting tools
- polling, attendance, private or to all IM, etc
- document repositories
- directory services
- presence detection

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## Recent RCWG Activities

- Ongoing registration discussions
- EVO in full production
- VRVS shut down April 15th
- Outreach to DFN
- HD Codian used for LHC CMS Operations Centre at CERN connected with ROCs @ FNAL, DESY

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Tandberg Meets RCWG
- new gov’t sales rep & sys engineer
- Codian 8000MCU due 1Q09
_**Key Differentiators**_
- All blades, power supplies and fans are hot-swappable
- AC or DC power inputs and multiple power supplies
- MCU, ISDN GW and VCR blades in the same chassis
- Up to 360 MCU video or 720 audio ports, 90 IP VCR ports,or 72 ISDN PRI ports in a single chassis
- Current technology same as MCU 4200 Series
- Scheduled and managed through TMS 11.8+
- credit: Erik Werner Tandberg

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## Future RCWG Activities 

- Guest & member presentations
- CSP: DFN
- User community: ITER rep
- Vendors: _Codian_/Tandberg, Vidyo, D-Link
- Membership: EVO tools, SNL Red Team
- Outreach to LHC, ILC, Fusion and Particle Astrophysics
- help collaborations select interoperable tools

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Continue to promote ECS H323 MCU features
- H239 (video+data)
- Streaming
- Customizable video displays
- Assist ESnet Site Coordinators, PIs, etc. with
- 	ECS issues for ESnet Consolidated Requirement  Survey and ESnet Requirements Workshops

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## Contact Information

- Contact Sheila Cisko _[scisko@fnal.gov](mailto:scisko@fnal.gov)_
- 	for connection information
- RCWG Meetings
- Wednesdays _1pmCDT (new time)_
-  _[RCWG@ES.net](mailto:RCWG@ES.net)_

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