WHAT UO students, in a Cyber Café setting, will watch the broadcast-quality television broadcast of rock-star-studded NetAid concerts over the advanced Internet2 network.

WHERE Douglas Hall (in Walton Complex), 1593-1595 E. 15th Ave.

WHO • Joanne Hugi, Director of UO Computing

• Joe Huber, Cisco Systems, Inc.

BACKGROUND

The UO Computing Center will broadcast 14 hours of the international live NetAid concert to more than 150 universities linked to the powerful Internet2 network. NetAid features Sting, Bono, Sheryl Crow, David Bowie, Puff Daddy and other top musicians, in an international effort to help the United Nations end global poverty. The UO-based broadcast could potentially reach an audience of more than a million Internet2-connected viewers, who from their own computers can watch futuristic, broadcast-quality live television over the Internet.

All UO residence hall students can access this broadcast, but the UO is setting up a special Cyber Café in the Douglas Hall. Douglas is the designated Cyber Residence Hall where technology-interested students have elected to live. On Saturday, they can enjoy the live concert broadcast together as well as learn about this advanced technology from experts from the UO Computing Center and Cisco Systems, Inc.

The broadcast will originate via the Oregon GigaPoP–the state’s access point to the powerful fiber-optic network linking all Internet2 universities–which UO has operated since January 1999. Internet2 is a project to develop advanced Internet applications that are not viable using today’s Internet technology. To help drive this kind of innovation, Internet2 often teams with government and industry partners to build and test next-generation Internet applications. Advanced technologies for the NetAid broadcast are being donated by Cisco Systems, Inc.

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