Internet2 2003 Annual Report
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H.323 Beacon Improves Videoconferencing Setup
www.itecohio.org/beacon/
The H.323 Beacon measures,
monitors, and troubleshoots
the performance of an H.323
videoconference. End-users,
network engineers, and conference operators can debug
H.323 application performance
problems from the network to
the host (from end-to-end).
Developed in 2003 by Internet2
and the Ohio Internet2
Technology Evaluation Center
of the Ohio Supercomputer
Center, the H.323 Beacon was
introduced to the advanced
networking community this
fall. After a rigorous test period
in conjunction with the annual
Megaconference, the world’s
largest H.323 videoconference,
the Beacon garnered many
endorsements. It was selected
for use with the Internet2
Commons H.323 videoconferencing
service; it was officially
recommended for performance
troubleshooting by Internet2
Corporate Sponsor Polycom,
Inc.; and Internet2 corporate
member Apparent Networks
highlighted the H.323 Beacon
in a published white paper on
network performance infrastructures.
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