The road show in Adelaide included amongst others, representatives from Flinders University (hosts), The University of Adelaide, The University of South Australia, Carnegie Mellon University and Charles Darwin University.
Mark Legg, IT Director at Flinders University welcomed the delegates and AARNet. James Sankar presented on the results of the SA survey that were conducted as part of the registration process, where many AARNet services were known with positive experiences, however newer services were less well known but will improve on awareness and use. A number of issues affecting greater adoption and use related to products, limited resources, training and acceptance were noted.
Maggie presented an update on the National Video Conferencing Service and the soon to be released Quality Assurance program, whilst Jason talked about telepresence, High Def video and desktop video solutions.
Brett presented on work done in building, supporting and publishing live and on demand streaming content for a number of events that AARNet has supported this year and gave an insight to a soon to start Streaming Media group.
Three keynote talks took place, one from Jason Bell (ARCS, CQU) on Successful Access Grids, another from Leon Li (AARNet) on changes to the VoIP and Gatekeeper services, and a final talk from John Xue on Kedacom, a chinese video conferencing company showcasing video conferencing and recording products. All keynote talks were made available live as Ozeconferences where a number of attendees participated, all talks have been recorded and are available.
Successful Access Grid Use Cases - Jason Bell (ARCS, CQU)
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Changes to AARNet's VoIP and Gatekeeper services - Leon Li (AARNet)
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An overview of Kedacom - John Xue, (Kedacom)
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Special thanks go to Flinders University for hosting this event.
Our next stop is Melbourne (18th Sept)
Please join us via video if you cannot make it to view the keynote talks -
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