Campus Video Streaming Project Update

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Campus Video Streaming Project Update

• CHECO Fall 2006
• Chad Burnham
• University of Denver

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Overview of Topics

• Phase 1 Design
• Current Customers
• Upcoming Future Customers
• Vendor Experiences
• Phase 2 Design Options

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Phase One

• Flash Media Server
• Apple Quick Time Server xRAID
• Kasenna OmniBase Server
• Apple G5 Encoding Station
• Various Software Encoding Packages on high end
  workstations

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Current Streaming Customers

• Penrose Library
• Faculty Reserves 67 videos growing!
• Collaborative Digitization Project
• Audio - 939 tracks growing
• Center for Teaching Learning Portfolio
  Project
• 170 Students with Audio recordings Playback
• Center for Teaching Learnings / Penrose
  Library Streamedia streaming video project
• 750 unique students / spring quarter 65 titles
• Lamont School of Music
• Evolution of Rock audio delivery

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Current Customers Cont

• Graduate School of Social Work
• Video delivery - 4 videos distance students
• Foreign Languages Department
• Recording tools (French driven)
• University College
• Languages audio delivery tool - 9 Classes
• Office of Communication Management - Chancellor
  Events, Wind Project media conference, Summer 06
  Commencement
• Daniels College of Business - Test bed
• Video Translations Module

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Upcoming Future Customers

• Penrose Library
• Corporate Collection 200 most common videos
• Oral Histories - Special Collections
• Collaborative Digitization Project
• Video in the near future
• Oral Histories
• Office of Communication Management
• Campus Tour
• Perspective Student Interviews
• Evans Professor event, Etc
• Daniels College of Business
• Ed-Tech - Rich Media Initiative

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Upcoming Future Customers Cont

• Career Center
• Graduate School of Social Work
• Lots of Video to encode, catalog present
• Center for Teaching Leaning
• Portfolio - Allowing students to upload content
  to stream
• Digital Object Repository Application (DORA)
• DORA/DUVAGA 2 application
• Lamont School of Music
• Theory Server

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Upcoming Future Customers Cont

• Faculty Pod Casting
• College of Law
• Digital Media Studies
• Student Video/Media Projects
• Languages and Literature
• Foreign Language Audio Tracks

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Production, Deployment Archival of Content

• Moving target as technology grows
• Support Flowchart needed
• Faculty content CTL / Library
• Archive Who decides?
• Live Events Multimedia service model
• Outsource/Partner the large audience events to
  hosting provider

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Vendor Experiences - Kasenna

• Not happy with Kasenna appliance overall
• Poor support
• Poor/incorrect documentation
• Did not deliver a hands-off OS as expected /
  promised
• EG. security patches, updates broke appliance
• Advised to not do security patches
• Purchased one small appliance to minimize risk
• Wanted to sell us professional services

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Vendor Experiences - Apple

• Training was very useful
• Server product line is limited, but works for our
  scale, expectations, budget
• Phase 1 Storage, an xRAID (DAS), works for our
  scale, expectations budget
• Phase 2 Storage funding makes this more of a true
  SAN model (xSAN / StorNext)
• Deployment enables a clustered file solution that
  can scale to both QuickTime and Flash
• Multiple systems to access the same data
• xRAID is a limited availability (Single
  Controller)

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Vendor Experiences ContAdobe / Flash

• Adobe/Macromedia merger occurred during phase
  one.
• More favorable licensing model
• Happy with Dell hardware
• Leveraging the Flash code platform. Can do more
  than just video audio, web conferencing,
  reporting. Custom media manipulation tools
• Flash code base is now 10 years old

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Vendor Experiences ContV. Brick

• Company has been very generous with two Demo
  Units
• MPEG 4 Part 10 (Not H.264)
• Would like to see H.264 Unit
• Will not tell us when
• Evaluated unit for live events

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Viewcast Niagara Osprey Portable Encoder

• 1st Unit arrived dead / after 3 RMAs
• Lemon Law New unit
• Manufacturer is anxious for success story
• Have had working for 1 week will use for
  internal Peace-Jam broadcast
• WMV, Flash, Real, Today, H.264 Part 10 due out
  4th Qtr

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Problem Disk Space

• Flash server is quickly reaching capacity
• Flash content is growing fast!
• Phase 2 would allow access to the SAN

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Phase 2 Architecture Diagrams

• Possible Storage Options
• With Apple
• Without Apple
• Lower Cost Stand-Alone HA SAN
• Expand Production HA Hitachi TagStore

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Questions?Links

• Videostreaming-tech_at_du.edu
• Videostreaming-inform_at_du.edu
• http//portfolio.du.edu/streaming
• http//www.viewcast.com/pages.asp?pageniagara-GoS
  tream
• http//www.apple.com/quicktime/whyqt/
• http//www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/