Category: Network

Friday afternoon Milwaukee‘s Discover World hosted a live performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra via Internet2. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association is a member of Internet2.

The HD video concert was projected in Discovery World’s Digital Theater which provides viewers with a spectacular 27foot wide high definition image with a 2048×1920 resolution picture.

Early arrival at Discovery World

The Philadelphia Orchestra is the first major orchestra to transmit live concerts to multiple large screen venues such as Discovery World. The live broadcast uses an MPEG 2 compressed stream running at bandwidths exceeding 50 times that of conventional internet video streams. For this concert performance only 20 venues around the world participated.

Indiana University’s Advanced Network Management Laboratory (ANML) highlights the new BoreasNet optical network below. Boreas increases number of facilities managing optical networks in the Midwest.

Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have established networks while Boreas covers schools including Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As defined by ANML advanced networks are a catalyst for high-tech economic development, especially in today’s globalized world. You can view the entire map in acrobat format.

Tags: ANML, optical network, Midwest, Boreas, globalization, network, Milwaukee, economic development, trends