Optivision Inc. Monday detailed a multi-location music video recording session using real-time streaming video over Internet2 networks.

Linking five major university campuses with its live streaming video servers and receivers, Optivision participated in a real-time music video recording session between musicians located thousands of miles apart, which included professionals from groups that back major performers, such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, N Sync, Christina Aguilera and CeCe Winans.

Profiled and broadcast on CNN on Saturday, November 4th at 1:30 p.m. EST, the national event showcased the immediately deployable communications power that the Internet2 infrastructure will bring to thousands of universities.

Led by over 180 US universities working with industry and government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy.

"We are proud to help enable an event that shows educators and the music and entertainment industry what they can expect to see from the future broadband Internet," said Michael Liccardo, chairman, president and CEO of Optivision. "Today was just the start of a major revolutionary step in real-time entertainment, communications and learning."

"Optivision went out of their way to ensure a successful collaboration among five campuses that produced a compelling CD done in a compelling way," said Ann Doyle, manager of Arts & Humanities Initiatives for Internet2. "The audience was blown away that musicians and engineers from multiple cities recorded a CD in one evening and the audience was there to witness the live recording session. As important as the equipment being used was the expert staff Optivision provided to each of the campuses involved. They were integral to the success of this event."

Campuses participating in the event included New York University, University of Southern California, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Miami and the University of Georgia School of Music. To produce the event, Optivision connected its NAC-3000 live streaming video servers at each campus with a VS-Pro playback system located at the University of Georgia School of Music, all linked over Internet2 networks. pWith the Optivision products streaming broadcast MPEG-2 video and dual channel audio, all the musicians were simultaneously connected for the performance via timing tracks to a mixing board where the signals were merged into a final, recorded song. As a result, musicians from geographically remote locations were able to collaborate in this recording session.

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