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A demo is being put together to try and address both issues. Georgia Tech and Emory are connecting a dedicated point to point 1Gigabit Ethernet connection from the Nichols lab in the Whitehead buidling to the DeWeerth lab in the Whitaker building. A compressionless video application will be used over this high bandwidth connection to help a student at Tech remotely train a student at Emory. The hope is that the two students will not have travel time and this can facilitate more frequent training sessions. We also hope that a 24 hour accessible video connection that is has low jitter and latency will be appealing and lend itself to natural conversational collaboration. It was made clear that sometimes the student only needs a quick question answered to finish an experiment. Supporting a way to interrupt an expert briefly and then move on is highly desired. Once the demo is performed, we would like to not only assess whether the two issues outlined are handled or improved in any way but also how this untraditional network solution performed. Is this the right way to handle these obstacles? Will it becomes transparent to the researchers so that they can focus on their research rather than deal with the technology beneath? We will continue to ask these questions as we observe. Because there are many pieces to this demo, it will be important to look at all of them to see what is successful and what might need improving. There is a network, a cutting edge application, and a change in process in the lab. Is it one of the things, all, or none that make a difference to the research progress? As we learn how to answer that question, with the help of the researchers, we will design a combination that best benefits them. Currently, equipment is ordered and we await installation. A progress report will posted when available. |
