SABRENet is a fibre-optic broadband network linking major Research & Education sites in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia.
SABRENet Launch a milestone performance
Submitted by james on 9 March, 2007 - 04:10.
Federal Education, Science and Training Minister the Hon Julie Bishop today launched SABRENet at Mawson Lakes.
South Australian Premier Mike Rann also spoke at the launch, highlighting the importance of SABRENet in the South Australian Government’s plan to make Adelaide a leading research and education destination for students and researchers from around the world.
The technical capacity of SABRENet was demonstrated at the launch with an Australian-first remote duet by University of Adelaide music students Lydia Sharrad on flute, playing at the University of South Australia’s Mawson Lakes Campus launch site, and Nicolas Storrie on clarinet, playing via the network at Flinders University some 40 km away.
Nic and Lydia played Handel's Sonatina and Lacome's Passepied across two SABRENet fibre connections , each carrying uncompressed high-definition video (HD-SDI) at 1.4 gigabits-per-second. The musicians were able to see and hear each other clearly, and the very low network latency (around 50 milliseconds) allowed the two pieces' complex, interwoven melodies to be performed with no appreciable delay. The performance closed the launch with a level of applause not normally heard an ICT event.
A second demonstration showed one gigabyte of medical imagery data from the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science transferred between the University of South Australia's Magill and Mawson campuses in 10 seconds.
South Australian Premier Mike Rann also spoke at the launch, highlighting the importance of SABRENet in the South Australian Government’s plan to make Adelaide a leading research and education destination for students and researchers from around the world.
The technical capacity of SABRENet was demonstrated at the launch with an Australian-first remote duet by University of Adelaide music students Lydia Sharrad on flute, playing at the University of South Australia’s Mawson Lakes Campus launch site, and Nicolas Storrie on clarinet, playing via the network at Flinders University some 40 km away.
Nic and Lydia played Handel's Sonatina and Lacome's Passepied across two SABRENet fibre connections , each carrying uncompressed high-definition video (HD-SDI) at 1.4 gigabits-per-second. The musicians were able to see and hear each other clearly, and the very low network latency (around 50 milliseconds) allowed the two pieces' complex, interwoven melodies to be performed with no appreciable delay. The performance closed the launch with a level of applause not normally heard an ICT event.
A second demonstration showed one gigabyte of medical imagery data from the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science transferred between the University of South Australia's Magill and Mawson campuses in 10 seconds.
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