UltraGrid
A High Definition Collaboratory

HDTV over IP demonstration at SC2005

The UltraGrid system was demonstrated at the SC2005 conference in Seattle, November 2005, running alternately over the Internet2 best effort service and the hyrbid optical packet infrastructure (HOPI) between Seattle and ISI-East in Arlington, VA. The following pictures show the system in operation (each is a link to a larger image):

Photo of UltraGrid demo at SC2005
Photo of UltraGrid demo at SC2005
Photo of UltraGrid demo at SC2005

Our paper “Experiences with High Definition Interactive Video Conferencing” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Toronto, Canada, July 2006, describes the demonstration, and measurements of network performance in more detail.