TechTalks Event
Managing the Convergence of Data, Voice, and Video Streaming�
with guest expert James Jokl of the University of Virginia
December 14, 2000
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Can we manage yet another tidal wave? What does it mean that data, voice, and video are converging? How can our campuses know where to position themselves in order to move in the right directions? Is this clearly an arena where the commercial interests are leading the pack in terms of development? Who on campus is managing these changes? Is this the "killer app" that will bring the faculty fully into the Internet fold? What are the financial consequences of making the wrong decision now?
Guest Expert
James
Jokl is Director of Communications
and Systems within the Information Technology and Communication
Department at the University
of Virginia. He has worked in various central computing and
networking roles at the University since 1986. In his current role,
he oversees the University's central computing and communications
infrastructure. This includes responsibility for the campus data
network and catv systems, central Unix and mainframe computer systems
used for research, general purpose, and administrative computing,
email and scheduling, the telephone system, and centrally operated
NT/2000 servers. He is active on national working groups on Integrated
Communications Strategies and PKI and in state committees on VoIP
and for defining the state's enterprise computing architecture.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is the Executive Director of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).
Together, Howard and Richard will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
One of the very best ways to get background on an issue is by reviewing the audio, transcript, and resource list from any related Tech Talks which have been previously broadcast and are now fully archived. While not directly "on target," the session entitled Networked Digital Video with Joel Mambretti and Bob Taylor may be of interest, as well as a year-old session entitled "IP Telephony with Charles Morrow-Jones and Russell Morrison.
Jim gave a presentation at the Seminars on Academic Computing last August. It's available, along with a lot of other interesting presentations, on line at the website of the Integrated Communications Strategies working group of Net@EDU. He also may refer, during the telecast, to some of the technologies behind the RotundaCam. Jim says that IPxStream has good summaries and links, and that you also may find Protocols.com's VOIP site a useful reference.
In a recent issue of Educause Quarterly, Tech Talk expert James Lynch writes in a viewpoint about Why Broadband Really Matters: Applications and Architectural Changes (pdf). He's a bit cynical about what "convergence" means for higher education.
The Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium is "a neutral, thoughtful forum that integrates a unique diversity of perspectives, spanning a wide range of firm types and academic disciplines." Many of its online resources are available to all in the form of html, Word, or pdf documents.
Convergence News can give you a taste of what "convergence" looks like from a Hollywood-type perspective.
Also, we found these related books: IP Convergence: The Next Revolution in Telecommunications by Nathan J. Muller and Digital Convergence: How the Merging of Computers, Communications and Multimedia is Transforming Our Lives by Andy Covell.
