Construction projects for this summer include six classrooms in various buildings. We will bring these six rooms to data display rooms before the beginning of the fall semester. The rooms are in Physics, Engineering Center, Hellems, Fine Arts, and others. Development work has started to identify the video hardware necessary for the four-campus video needs, as part of the TAC, out of the Central offices. Clif Lines, Richard Borkowski, Kate Albers, and Bret Mann have journeyed to Las Vegas to attend the National Association of Broadcasters convention to examine the latest technology for digital video.
Expectations are to purchase new digital hardware to bring their services to present-day standards.
Computer-based video editors, serial digital video routers, and a video server are on their list. We will soon move the test equipment to the Engineering center where we can really put a load on it. So far, tests indicate substantial performance improvements. We hope to get high-level approval and support in late April or early May from the leaders of the participating organizations. The statistics gathered from the router in the stadium show that the sustained errors have not appeared since we disconnected that B-jack.