October 2005 Thomas Baron – CERN-IT 1

CERN response to RTAG

Vision shared, with a somewhat different scope• CERN as focus but not sole responsible

(other centers have their own resources, expertise and support)

• At CERN: scope wider than only the LHC experiments

October 2005 Thomas Baron – CERN-IT 2

ACTIONS: 2005 (I)

March: new AVC section regrouping:• Audiovisual activities• Videoconferencing activities• Webcasting• Event management softwares (CDS Agenda, Indico)• Other collaboration tools (email; instant messaging;

network; VoIP; phone conferencing ) in separate sections with specialised skills, but close collaboration

AVC Section personnel and materials plan prepared for mgmt (taking account of RTAG12)

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ACTIONS: 2005 (II)

August: • SMAC prototype installed – centralised infrastructure

for automating the recording of lectures in CERN conference rooms

• Consolidation on one event management tool: CDS Agenda->Indico migration started

• Webcast possible in Council Chamber and IT Auditorium in addition to Main Auditorium – Portable AV production+webcasting equipment purchased

September: • Alcatel eDial automatic audioconference system in

beta-test: http://audioconf.cern.ch

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ACTIONS: 2005 (III)

October: • start standardisation process of desktop/rooms

videoconference equipement with CERN stores• start restructuring of the CERN Videoconference web

site. More documentation (FAQs…) will be added in the future

November: • New MCU service starts hosted by the Lyon IN2P3

centre de calcul. Collaboration between IN2P3, CNRS, INSERM and CERN – 2 Codian MCUs (total 52 ports) + 1 ISDN gateway

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ACTIONS: 2006

Start refurbishing CERN videoconference roomsProvide a unique web interface/portal to fully

organise meetingsNew Webcast server

– Helix Unlimited universal license Indico using Grid certificate and/or personal

certificatesConsolidation of the Indico server infrastructure

• Better reliability, speed, availabilityDevelope the synergies between the existing

audio/video conference systems