The brand new idea of Multicast enabled networking rich room

	The Access Grid (AG) is the ensemble of resources that can be used to support human interaction across the grid. It consists of multimedia display, presentation and interactive environments, interfaces to grid middleware, and interfaces to visualization environments. The Access Grid will support large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials and training. The Access Grid design point is group-to-group communication (thus differentiating it from desktop to desktop based tools that focus on individual communication). The Access Grid environment must enable both formal and informal group interactions. Large-format displays integrated with intelligent or active meeting rooms are a central feature of the Access Grid nodes. Access Grid nodes are "designed spaces" that explicitly contain the high-end audio and visual technology needed to provide a high-quality compelling user experience.
	The Collaborative Technologies Laboratory is a networked multi-media studio for real-time interaction, video production, editing, archiving and distribution. The room functions as a collaborative distance learning environment, multi-party video conferencing facility for collaborative presentations, research, and meetings, and a digital classroom for technology enhanced learning. The flexibility of the infrastructure allows for a wide range of potential uses for the room. Current and future research seeks to determine what uses of the technology are pedagogically useful and which are novel (at best), and to provide information to others who seek to create or improve similiar collaborative research.
	The Collaborative Technologies Laboratory is an integrated research center. It is a multimedia hub, digital classroom, and collaborative research center which uses the World Wide Web as a core component of laboratory facilitates, distributed interaction and content distribution.
	The front wall of the classroom is set up for local presentions and for viewing of remote participants. Access Grid (see Access Grid) participants are projected on the right hand screen or screens with the local presenter projecting on the middle screen (if they are using Powerpoint or other computer media) or using the whiteboard. Speakers on either side of the room and mics throughout the room allow local and remote participants to engage in discussion.
	tkMOO-light is an advanced chat client suitable for use with muds and especially MOO systems. The client runs on UNIX, Windows and Macintosh platforms. tkMOO-light is the ideal choice if you're looking for a single chat client which is able to run on different operating systems.
	A powerful built-in text editor can be used for local editing of MOO verbs and properties and for composing MOO-mail messages. The client understands a range of local editing protocols including LambdaCore, MCP/1.0, MCP/2.1, MacMOOSE and Hash-hash (##).
	The Access Grid is an integrated environment that supports group-to-group communication using high-speed networks over the Internet. It provides high-quality audio and real-time video that allow groups at multiple sites to interact simultaneously and share data and scientific instruments.
	Meeting participants (both local and distant) appear in windows projected onto a large screen. The current display resolution at VisLab is 3840 x 1024 pixels. Additionally, data windows from participants' laptop computers can be intergrated into the meeting (eg. display images, movies, presentations, spreadsheets).
	http://internet2.motlabs.com/papers/handhelds_agnode_poster_final_normalpage.pdf HandHeld Devices with AG Nodes
	Wireless Real-Time Streaming Multimedia Demonstration (3M) CVEs are typically enabled through fixed infrastructures and machines with significant computing power. Integrating wireless, handheld devices into such environments could add value to users because of their inherent flexibility. However, although handheld devices can provide value, they still generally lack the power interact independently with CVEs. iPAQ Platform Overview (3M)
	The Abilene Project is named after a railhead established in Abilene, Kansas during the 1860´s. In its time the ambitious railhead of the 1800's staked a claim on what was then the frontier of the United States; the Abilene Project establishes a foothold from which to explore and develop pioneering network technology. The links of last century's railway changed the way people worked and lived. The Abilene Project is transforming the work of researchers and educators today.
	Robust Audio Tool (RAT) The Robust Audio Tool (RAT) is an open-source audio conferencing and streaming application that allows users to participate in audio conferences over the internet. These can be between two participants directly, or between a group of participants on a common multicast group. Robust Audio Tool (RAT) Information Page