# Presentation: 870992

## RCWG Update

- Sheila Cisko, Chair
- Fermilab

- 		ESCC *in Paradise*

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## RCWG Membership

- 	Sheila Cisko,
- 	Chair  	Fermilab
- 	Alan Sill 	Texas Tech University
- 	Andy
- 	Kromphardt	University of Iowa
- 	Art Bray 	SLACCarl Scimeca  	Princeton Plasma 			Physics Lab
- 	Chris Masullo 	Brookhaven National Lab
- 	Christian Helft   IN2P3-LAL
- 	Brooks Collins   	SLAC
- 	Deb Agarwal     	LBNL
-    	Ed Ritenour      	LBNLGheni Abla	General Atomics
- 	Janine Jensen 	Pacific Northwest National 		Lab
- 	Jim Berry 	Sandia National Lab
- 	Joao Fernandes	CERN/VRVS.org
- 	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 	     LBNLReinhard Eisenberg DESY
-       Rich Horwitz           BNL
-       Sabah Salih  	     University of Manchester
- 	Stan Kluz 	     ESnet
- 	Philippe Galvez 	     Caltech/VRVS.org
- 	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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## Topics

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

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## ECS Stats June 07 to Dec 07

- H323 MCUs (ad-hoc)
- Total registrants 1694 (1547 in 7/07)
- Average # of hrs per month: 3331
- Total number of meetings: 13,220
- Average # of mtgs per month: 2203
- No data for # of registered endpoints
- Audio/data MCU (reserved resources)
- Total registrants 746 (672 in 7/07)
- Average ports hrs per month 2049 (3343 4/07 to 7/07)
- Total number of meetings: 5783
- Average # of mtgs per month: 826

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## ECS Status - Infrastructure

- Equipment Upgrades June ‘07
- Smooth transition for most users
- if they read their email
- all three H323 MCUs have same features
- need to advertise 82 & 85 MCUs
- Continued use of original gatekeeper
- ECS & Tandberg working on interoperability and GDS issues with new gatekeeper.
- delay in resolution *may* be related to Tandberg purchase of Codian

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## ECS Status - Operations

- Outsourced to TKO January ’07
- Generally working well
- Recent participation in new technology investigations

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## ECS Status – Operations (cont’d)

- Concerns:
- Recent unscheduled ESnet outages not reported to ECS users by ECS/TKO/ or ESnet Staff
- How to best resolve?
- ECS problems emailed to _[trouble@es.net](mailto:trouble@es.net)_
- RCWG or ecs-tech is cc’d
- trouble ticket status sporadic
- investigate a mechanism for RCWG and users to post trouble, experiences, fixes, questions, etc.
- use web pages, message board, archived emails, wiki or other
- unknown as to which site would host

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## ECS Status – Operations (cont’d)

- Concerns (cont’d)
- No interaction with TKO on R&D
- new tools & applications
- implementation and promotion of existing or future versions of MCU
- example: improved Codian web conferencing
- Open Source Linux and Mac H323 solutions
- audio bridging
- web conferencing solutions
- HD & Telepresence
- meeting tools
- polling, attendance, private or to all IM, etc
- document repositories
- directory services
- presence detection

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## ECS Status – Operations (cont’d)

- Concerns (cont’d)
- As offered at last ESCC Meeting
-  the Fusion Group paid TKO to monitor an important meeting on ECS MCU
- was ~$2K worth peace of mind?
- advertise this service on ECS web pages

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## Recent RCWG Activities

- Future of ECS Architecture Discussions
- Tested Adobe Connect for web collaboration
- allows display of desktop apps
- limited video attendees
- general impression was positive
- requires further testing with multiplatform power users
- Recent guest presentation – Knud Thomsen
- described EFDATV
- 		(European Fusion Development Agreement)
- multipurpose desktop sharing system
- using Java enabled browser or VNC client
- open source code, small management effort required

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Recent guest presentation (cont’d)
- DFNVC and RZG MCU services features
-  directory services – how to contact endpoints
-  presence detection for individual and room availability
-  records presentations
- Neither Adobe Connect or EFDATV integrate phone

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Future of ECS Architecture Discussions (cont’d)
- Indico
- feature-rich _event oriented_ tool for conferences, meetings, lectures
- At CERN is used for all meetings, room bookings
- Future developments will allow convener to start meeting
- makes a connection from room system to EVO, Hermes or ECS
- EFDATV & Indico are complimentary and can provide meeting tools, document repository and remote presentation capability

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## Indico Example: Meeting management

- Currently integrated: VRVS booking
- Planned integration: EVO, HeRMeS, phone conference system				credit:  Thomas Baron

- Video conference integration

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## Indico Example: Meeting management(cont’d)

- One button to rule them all
- if desired, notably at CERN

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Future of ECS Architecture Discussions (cont’d)
- Registration solutions
- Registration agents could be RCWG member, site/room coordinators, technical contacts

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Assisting with migration to EVO from VRVS
- interoperation with ECS MCUs
- tutorials and web instructions created (CERN, FNAL et al)
- EVO review major recommendations
- Switch from VRVS to EVO, terminate VRVS support
- Potential funding sources should add resources for 1st year operations
- Focus near-term on improved user experience and audio performance
- Reevaluate EVO along with other LHC tools in one year

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## Recent RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Members presented at CHEP07
- Steve Goldfarb on LHC Collaboration Tools
- Philippe Galvez on EVO
- Indico@FNAL used for general meetings
- includes meeting minutes and presentation materials

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## Future RCWG Activities

- Outreach to LHC, ILC, Fusion and Particle Astrophysics
- help collaborations select interoperable tools
- Continue to promote ECS H323 MCU features
- H239 (video+data)
- Streaming
- Customizable video displays
- Continued interactions with industry vendors & developers
- including technology investigations
- H323 to SIP MCUs
- HD and telepresence

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)	

- ESnet Consolidated Survey to ECS community or equivalent
- Test, advise ECS with audio/web collaboration upgrade, HiDef MCU
- Assist with ECS infrastructure change to disaster recovery relocation
- Plan next Workshop
- Membership drive
- Create RCWG document repository
- replace ECS workshop wiki
- open to VC users for technical reference

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## Contact Information

- Contact Sheila Cisko _[scisko@fnal.gov](mailto:scisko@fnal.gov)_
- 	for connection information
- RCWG Meetings
- Wednesdays 11amCDT
- _[RCWG@ES.net](mailto:RCWG@ES.net)__  _

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