Server: Netscape-Commerce/1.12 Date: Tuesday, 26-Nov-96 00:07:12 GMT Last-modified: Thursday, 15-Jun-95 00:40:28 GMT Content-length: 3326 Content-type: text/html TELEMEDIA, NETWORKS, AND SYSTEMS GROUP
hardware and software - of the pending transition from computation intensive applications to media and network intensive environments. While our interests extend to audio and graphics, much of the effort is focused on full motion video, which represents the medium with the most demanding through-put requirement. Specifically, the project investigates the design and deployment of distributed video systems. This project is integrating Desk Area Network (DAN) technology, under development within Aurora, with a very software intensive approach to the capture, editing, transmission, storage, and display of full motion video sequences.

Aurora's main objective is the exploration and evaluation of technologies that support operation at or near gigabit per second bandwidths. Our contributions to Aurora, which are mostly related to gigabit endworking, include work on local distribution, host interfacing, and end system protocol software.

Aurora is one of five networking testbeds funded by the Corporation for the National Research Initiatives under a grant from the National Science Foundation and ARPA. This collaboration involves MIT, IBM, Bellcore, and the University of Pennsylvania. The project has already commissioned a wide area network, through which the four partner sites are linked by several 600 Mb/s trunks.