[sldev] Does SL connect into Internet2 ?

[Dale Mahalko]

Hmm, I hadn't thought about OpenSim at all. That could be an interesting use
for the research network, and would also solve the whole adult/teen grid
access problems for educators trying to do things with Second Life.

Internet2 would also allow an OpenSim grid to do high-bandwidth experiments
that would be considered "just right out" for SL on the regular Internet,
such as multiple video streams per parcel, and seeing video across multiple
parcels at the same time.

I wonder how it would work to create avatars where the head is a flat blank
oval and instead shows a 256 kbit video stream of the person's real face
streamed live on the avatar... and you have say 40 of these people wandering
around with a live face-stream all at the same time in a sim (256kb x 40 =
10 megabits). Build a wireless head-mount camera-hat that moves with your
skull, to keep your face centered on the avatar's head when you look around
your office..


It does sound interesting. I'll ask the boss. :-)

- Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Hurliman <jhurliman at jhurliman.org>wrote:

> What about running an OpenSim grid inside the Internet2 network?
>
> John
>
>   On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>   It appears that PK-12 public schools in Wisconsin could connect into
>> the hyperspeed Internet2 project fairly inexpensively.
>>
>> The big problem for me is figuring out how this might be useful for a
>> public school since it is primarily a research network. What exactly are we
>> going to use it for?
>>
>>
>> It would be nice if someday SL could be used in a school computer lab
>> setting, but I've often said on here how this is impossible due to the lack
>> of proxy cache support (e.g. squid) and that due to E-Rate funding we are
>> limited to only 3 megabit of general Internet bandwidth for the entire
>> school.
>>
>> Internet2 would be a way around this. So if SL is demanding 500 kilobit
>> per lab PC for good performance, that is fine -- if SL can come in over I2.
>>
>> Heck, with I2 as a way to get onto SL, we could have 50 megabit per PC out
>> to SL, in a lab of 30 machines and still have no upper bandwidth limit
>> problems.
>>
>>
>> Though I may need to install a new 10 gigabit school network backbone to
>> handle all this, in addition to the normal file server traffic... ;-)
>>
>> - Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
>>
>>
>>
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