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GPN Annual Meeting
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Call for
Participation
The annual
Great Plains Network meeting will be held jointly, this year,
with MIDnet. MIDnet was originally funded by NSF to connect
researchers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and South Dakota. In September of 1987 MIDnet became
the first of the regional networks to become fully
operational. After several transformations, MIDnet is back in
business, regionally, facilitating the creation and exchange
of network and internetworking-related tools and information
among its membership.
The meeting will be held on April
18 and 19, 2002 at EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. The Program Committee is currently working on a
meeting agenda with several featured speakers, engineering and
applications tracks, as well as an event for CIO
networking.
To make a presentation or provide a
technical demonstration at the meeting, visit the Call
for Participation page. To register for the meeting, visit
the GPN
Meeting Registration page.
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GPN
Joins Internet2 Commons
by Kristen Klaver
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GPN is proud to announce
we are an Internet2 Commons Member and Kristen Klaver is the Site
Coordinator.
The Internet2 Commons is a framework for
collaboration throughout the research and education community that
encourages large-scale deployment of tools for one-to-one,
one-to-group, and group-to-group collaborations. The services
provided by the Commons are available to Internet2 members, Abilene
participants, and their international counterparts.
The
Commons provides registrants with ad hoc and scheduled
(multipoint) conferences, training and support, a large community of
expert users, interoperability with the multicast conferencing
world, and a research and development program. The Commons also
supports multicast conferencing and the interconnection between
various multicast conferencing tools and H.323 through the Virtual
Room Videoconferencing System (VRVS).
The duties of the
Commons Site Coordinator are to train users on how to use an MCU
(see below), provide a local directory of GPN’s users, and assist in
installing and debugging your video conference
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GPN Member Services: Hosting Video-Conference
Calls
Did you know that GPN has our own Multipoint Conferencing
Unit (MCU)? An MCU lets you video conference with more than one
person at a time. If you are interested in using the Great Plains
MCU, go to the GPN Video
Project page and create a user id. Currently, the
procedure used to connect to the MCU is to set your gatekeeper to
164.113.238.34. Simply dial into the conference using number
62111. For any additional questions, contact Kristen Klaver
by email or at (405)
325-5774.
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