VidTrans 2003 Presentations

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The following are presentations that were given at VidTrans 2003, in Austin, Texas, USA.

A - Monday Morning | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Session A1 Keynote Panel: Video Service Users
Gavin Schutz - Ascent Media
Bruce Cowan - CHUM Television
John Honeycutt - Fox Broadcasting
Paul Atwell - Paxson Communications
Session A2, Gopal Garg, Cypress Semicondutor: "Video Transport over WDM and SONET - Using GFP and Virtual Concatenation"
Session A3, Chuck Van Dusen, VideoTele.com: "What's the Story Behind MPEG-4?"

B - Monday Afternoon | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Session B1, Charles Cartwright, Tandberg Television: "Video Compression Choices for IP Delivery"
Session B2, MJ Drouin, D Consulting: "Why Would Broadcasters Transport their Professional Video over IP?"
Session B3, John Trimper, Artel Video Systems: "Transporting Compressed HD Signals - The Physical Layer"
Session B4, Jeff McElreath, Turner Broadcasting System: "Future Directions for Turner Broadcasting's Video Network"
Session B5, Greg Davey, Bell Canada: "Video Network Topologies"

C - Tuesday Morning | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Session C1 Keynote Panel: Video Service Providers
Angela Frost - AT&T
Juan Manuel Ramos - Bell Canada
Paul Dujardin - Genesis Networks
Jan Icyda - Verizon
Alex Cioth - Level 3 Communications
Session C2, James O. Farmer, Wave7 Optics: "Video: By Broadcast or by IP?"
Session C3, Jean Chatel, THOMSON - Nextream: "Television Services over IP over ADSL - System Aspects and Experimental Results"

D - Tuesday Afternoon | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Session D1, Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix: "But it's My Network! - The Pitfalls of Sharing with Others"
Session D2, Ronny Sletteng, Network Electronics: "Building Broadcast Quality Fiber Optic Networks"
Session D3, Amir Geva, Optibase: "Telecom Carriers Go Head-to-Head with Cable Companies"
Session D4, Wallace Murray, SBC/Midwest "Midwest's First Live to Air HDTV Remote - Thanksgiving Day, 2002 - Detroit"

E - Wednesday Morning | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Session E1, Wes Simpson, Telecom Product Consulting: "Hype vs. Reality - Perspectives on Network Capacity, Growth and Utilization"
Session E2, Bart Schade & Luann Linnebur, Path 1: "Results and Measurements for IP Video Transport on Today's Networks"
Session E3, Stan Moote, Leitch, Inc.: "Processing Signals in the MPEG Domain"
Session E4, Pierre Costa, SBC/TRI: "ATM Tutorial"

General Information | Download Zip File | Download Stuffit File

Conference Agenda, as of February 23, 2003
Presentation entitled "VSF Introduction 2-23-03r"
A list of the VSF Officers and Directors as of 2/23/03
Sample questions provided to User Panel Participants
Sample questions provided to Service Provider Panel Participants
A compilation of the Abstracts for the Presentations
A MS-Word Version of the readme.txt file