# Presentation: 870991

## RCWG Update

- Sheila Cisko, Chair,
- Fermilab

- ESCC

- S. Cisko - RCWG Update - ESCC

- July 19, 2007

## 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 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
- 	Thomas Uram 	     ANL/Access Grid
- 	Terry Schalk	     University of California – 			     Santa Cruz

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## ECS Stats

- H323 MCUs (ad-hoc)
- Total registrants 1547 (1400 endpoints in 7/06)
- After 12/06 scripts previously used to provide utilization stats not available
- Tandberg gatekeeper not yet into production
- Tandberg Management Suite (TMS) to provide stats
- Audio/data MCU (reserved resources)
- Total registrants 672 (500 in 7/06)
- Average ports hrs 3343 Apr-June (2000 in 7/06)
- Continued observations of port utilization

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## ECS Status - Infrastructure

- Equipment Upgrades –June ‘07
- Codians replaced Radvisions
- 3 video MCUs = 120 ports
- feature rich: streaming, customized video display, transcoding, H239 (video+data)
- Continued use of original gatekeeper
- ECS & Tandberg working on interoperability and GDS issues with new gatekeeper.
- All hardware moved to production VLAN
- new POTS/ISDN gateway with 2 PRIs

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## ECS Status - Operations

- Outsourced to TKO January ’07
- Generally working well
- TKO learning ECS user community and RCWG members
- TKO = 1 project engineer and 1 lead engineer
- responsive and timely audio & video registration process

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## ECS Status - Operations(cont’d)

- Concerns:
- Fusion community asks for improved ECS support services
-  ECS used in two ways
- Scheduled meetings
- up to 40 attendees at 3 to 4 sites
- Ad-hoc meetings
- up to 10 attendees at 2 to 3 sites
- use of ISDN gateway
- ECS reliability and responsivity are critical
- On rare occasions of problems email support is problematic when urgency is required
- Need to get system status quickly

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## ECS Status - Operations(cont’d)

- Concerns (cont’d)
- suggested ways to improve:
- upgrade service to on-call business hours of Pacific, Central or Eastern time
- phone or IM support
- provide mechanism to specify urgency of service request
- provide IM chat rooms associated with meetings for negotiating connection problems among participants
- provide support through ESnet operations phone support line

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## ECS Status - Operations(cont’d)

- suggested ways to improve (cont’d):
- allow RCWG member (or select power users) web access to view meetings on video MCUs
- provide real time status of ECS infrastructure
- improved web documentation for testing, troubleshooting
- use ESnet Consolidated Requirements Survey to express future services and support
- No interaction with TKO on R&D
- new tools & applications
- Open Source Linux and Mac H323 solutions
- audio bridging
- web conferencing solutions
- HD & Telepresence

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## Recent RCWG Activities

- Tested MCUs, gatekeeper, gateway
- Assisted with rollout of same
- Testing EVO (replaces VRVS) with MCUs and gatekeepers
- Outreach to Fusion community, especially for Global Dialing Scheme (GDS)

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## RCWG Future Activities

- Distribute ESnet Consolidated Requirements Survey to ECS community
-  with emphasis on user video, audio & web collaboration communication needs
- Methods:
- members @ DOE labs contact site coordinators
- members @ US & non-US institutions contact PIs, co-spokespersons, project leads
- email survey to ecs-info list (all registered ECS users)

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)	

- Presentations at CHEP07 (2 members)
- Assist with transition to EVO from VRVS
- continue interaction & interoperations with EVO
- Plan next Workshop
- RCWG instead of ECS
- will ask ECS/TKO to attend and provide input
- likely to be “virtual”
-  all by video, phone, stream and web
- date tbd
- Membership drive
- Create RCWG document repository
- to replace ECS workshop wiki
- open to VC users for technical reference

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Outreach to LHC, ILC and Fusion
- 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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## 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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