Equipment+and+Network+Requirements

=IVC Equipment Requirements=

General

 * 1) All equipment will support H.323 protocol.
 * 2) All equipment will support transmit and recieve of: H.263 video protocol, G.711 audio protocol and H.239 content protocol.
 * 3) Audio Inputs: equipment will accept audio input from the house/room audio system. Please specify the standard(s) for your audio input(s).
 * 4) Audio Outputs: equpment will output audio to the house/room audio system. We prefer line level audio on RCA jacks. Please specify the standard(s) for your audio output(s).
 * 5) Video Inputs : equipment should have an incorporated camera and must accept one or more additional video input signals. Composite and S-video video inputs are required at a minimum.
 * 6) Video Outputs: equipment must have composite or S-video outputs for video. If additional video outputs are available, please specify.
 * 7) Content Inputs: equipment must have one analog VGA input for content sources. If addiitonal content inputs are available, please specify.
 * 8) Content Outputs: equipment must have one analog VGA output for content. If additional content outputs are available, please specify.
 * 9) Equipment must be on-site before Thursday, June 21
 * 10) Prefer to have vendor assistance to setup on Thursday, June 21
 * 11) Prefer to have vendor recover equipment on Wednesday, June 27 (after 1:00 pm)

IVC Operations (B310)

 * 1) One desktop IVC unit required for the IVC Ops station.
 * 2) Content (input and output) highly desired (for testing), but not required, for this unit.
 * 3) Equipment should have an integrated display. Additional video input and output desired, but not required.
 * 4) Equipment should have an integrated microphone. Additional audio input and output desired, but not required.
 * 5) Equipment must be available from June 21 through June 27.

Session and Workshop Room (B309, B311)

 * 1) Two room IVC units required
 * 2) Equipment must meet all requirements of "General" above.
 * 3) Equipment must be available from June 21 through June 27.

Questions 1) What requirements do we have for document cameras? VCR players? DVD players? 2) Who will provide this additional equipment?

IVC Forum Meeting (B303)

 * 1) One room IVC unit required
 * 2) Equipment must meet all requirements of "General" above.
 * 3) Prefer a mobile/transportable/cart type system. (This will be moved into and out of a meeting room.)
 * 4) Equipment must be available from Monday, June 25 through Tuesday, June 26.

Questions 1) What requirements do we have for document cameras? VCR players? DVD players? 2) Who will provide this additional equipment?

Mobile IVC (Tuesday)

 * 1) One transportable, wireless IVC unit required (Prefer H.323, but other protocols may be acceptable.)
 * 2) We will be able to provide WiFi access for this unit.
 * 3) Equipment must be available from Monday, June 25 through Tuesday, June 26.

=IVC Rooms Audio, Visual, Computer, etc. Requirements=

IVC Operations (B310)

 * 1) Need one computer (desktop/laptop/Mac/Wintel) connected to the IVC VLAN
 * 2) Need one telephone capable of dial-in and dial-out including national long distance
 * 3) Vendor will supply one desktop IVC unit for IVC Ops

Session and Workshop Room (B309, B311)

 * 1) We will have two IVC units in each of these rooms. Only one will be used at a time.
 * 2) Each IVC unit needs to connect audio in and audio out to the house audio system. Chris suggested using a small audio mixer for this.
 * 3) Each IVC unit needs to connect video out to a house projector. Suggest connecting both units to one projector and using the other projector for the house computer. Will need a video switch to select the IVC output for the projector.
 * 4) Would it be possible to get a single, small audio mixer/video switch combination? Chris?
 * 5) IVC Ops (or the room facilitators) will have to be coached on how to switch between IVC units for events.
 * 6) Do we need a monitor for the local video?

IVC Forum Meeting (B303)

 * 1) This room will have a single IVC event. Possibilities:
 * 2) Self contained IVC unit, projector, audio, etc.
 * 3) IVC unit on a cart, connects to room audio & projectors
 * 4) Setup and take down preceed and follow the single event.

=IVC Network Requirements=


 * 1) Need a minimum of 3 Mbps dedicated (or QoS) Internet access on a dedicated IVC VLAN (May need more if HD IVC is planned by participants.) (Chris Angerame said we would get 5Mbps for the IVC VLAN - April 24, 2007)
 * 2) Need wired Ethernet IVC VLAN drops (10 Mbps is sufficient) in the following rooms:
 * 3) B310 - Operations (2 drops)
 * 4) B309 - Workshop (2 drops)
 * 5) B311 - Sessions (2 drops)
 * 6) B303 - IVC Forum (1 drop)
 * 7) Need 14 static IP addresses, prefer 30 static IP addresses
 * 8) Need some sort of wireless connectivity for Tuesday for the "Connected Georgia" event. We are looking for a mobile H.323 unit or may use a laptop with webcam, microphone, etc. Either system would use WiFi for net access. Don't know the geography/locations where they want to "roam" This will be a short event (30 mins) but we will want to test before.

Question from Chris: Will the wireless IVC system be roaming or stay in one place? The center is concerned about general wireless availability. If we can confine you to 1 space we can dedicate a single AP on your VLAN. If you will be roaming we will need to use the public wifi which we should be able to QOS for you. -Chris Apr 26, 2007

=IVC Service Provider Requirements=


 * 1) Require 8x7 help desk/NOC Eastern daylight time. Prefer 24x7 help desk/NOC
 * 2) Require sufficient bandwidth to Internet1 (commodity Internet)
 * 3) Require ability to bridge three simultaneous conferences to six sites each
 * 4) Require ability to bridge audio, video and content
 * 5) Require ability to transcode (bandwidth, audio and video)
 * 6) Require ability to gateway between IP and ISDN
 * 7) Prefer provision of gatekeeper service (so we can register the NECC endpoints and assign E.164 addresses)
 * 8) Prefer participation in global dialing system (GDS)