High-Quality Video Over The Internet

  • Speakers:
    • Jean-Georges Fritsch, VP of Engineering, MinervaSystems
    Mike Moskowitz, Director of Business Development, InstantVideo Technologies
    Kyle Faulkner, Chief Technical Officer, InstantVideo Technologies
  • Date & time: Thursday, 30 September 1999
    • 6:30 PM social hour with refreshments + Equipment Demo
    7:30 PM presentation begins, followed by equipment demos

    Program:

    For years, millions of potential viewers, program providers, and hardwaremakers have dreamed of video on demand (VOD) delivered over the Internet.Are we there yet? Many obstacles stand in the way of routine delivery ofInternet television, including the widespread installation of "fat" pipelines-- e.g., cable and satellite modems, DSL, fiber links, and wireless --and a highly reliable Internet backbone and network resources. Assuminga relatively high installation rate for high-speed Net connections -- 1.5mb/s and higher -- in American homes and businesses in the next few years,what challenges will engineers face in streaming video over the Net reliablyand with consistently high quality?
     
     

    Mike Moskowitz and Kyle Faulkner from Instant Video Technologies (IVT)will discuss the current state of video streaming over TCP/IP networks,and how their "burst" approach maps to true VOD: frame rate, video resolution,encoding rates, and more. IVT's Burstware (tm) manages variable bit-ratedata bursts of MPEG video between a media cache from the server and a clientbuffer -- e.g., on a desktop computer. The "faster-than-real-time" deliverysystem transfers media quicker than its playback speed into client sidebuffers, isolating the client from network-based disruptions. The codec-neutralapproach offers no single point of failure, and operates on major platforms,including Linux, Windows NT, and Solaris.
     
     

    Mike is a veteran in the field of networked video, most recently inSGI's MPEG-2 and broadcast video server product lines. He participatedin SGI's VOD deployments in Orlando and New York. Before that, he did fundamentalresearch in image transmission over high-bandwidth networks at UCSF MedicalCenter. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and a Master's in computerengineering.
     
     

    Kyle has produced more than 20 commercially successful hardware andsoftware products and served as the chief architect and a key contributorto Network Equipment Technologies, Forte Software, Cell Net Data Systems,and Sybase. He is an expert in Object Request Broker Architectures, scalableservers, and distributed computing. He has a degree in electrical engineeringand applied physics.
     
     

    Dr. Jean-Georges Fritsch from Minerva Systems will discuss the currentstate of the art of streaming live, rich media over an intranet and thebroadband Internet. He'll show how Minerva does point to point, point tomulti-point, and multi-point to multi-point one way and two way live streamingvideo over the IP network. Jean-Georges is the Vice President of Engineeringat Minerva. Prior to joining that company's research and product developmentteam in 1994, he headed C-Cube Microsystems' MPEG decoder chip developmentgroup.
     

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