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Electronic village of Abingdon “91st Day”
Subcommittee MINUTES 28 July, 1999
12:30 PM The
scheduled meeting of the Electronic Village of Abingdon “91st Day”
Subcommittee held in the Johnston Memorial Hospital Cafeteria was opened by
Dr. F. H. Moore, Chairman. There
were eleven participants present. These
included:
The
minutes of the 30 June 1999 meeting were approved with two corrections. Steve Galyean should be shown as
present at the meeting making a total of thirteen participants and Jean Luker
had stated that the Washington County Public School System wished to
participate in the demonstration of teleconferencing. With these two corrections, the
minutes of the 30 June 1999 meeting were accepted. The
next item for review was the status of new connections, including:
Dr. Moore opened the meeting with the hub situation that had arisen as
a problem with Dr. F. H. Moore III and Abingdon Radiology, both connected
through JMH. The problem appeared
to be at least one defective hub at JMH which had been temporarily swapped
pending warranty replacement of the normal unit. David Taverner advised that there was
a problem that occurred with a second hub at the Sprint Central Office the
origin of which was undetermined.
The next item was that of the EVA home page being unavailable to users
outside of the NetAccess system. Bob
Franklin reported that NetAccess had already taken several steps to repair
this problem, but nothing seems to have worked.
The problem appears to be with the DNS setup of the EVA page and may
have to be resolved with Internic. Further
discussion of the EVA page ensued and a Web Team was appointed to review the
materials there. This included
Mathew Matt, John Mongle, Eric Schuler and Chris Edwards.
Al Bradley reported that he had submitted an application to the AOL
Foundation to include EVA in the Rural Telecommunications Leadership Awards
program. The application was
submitted electronically and a signed copy mailed prior to the deadline on 20
July and notification of its receipt has been received. The notification stated that nothing
further would be heard from the program until September.
Al Bradley reported that he and Mathew Matt had begun documenting the
pole routes for the EVA fibers the day before.
This information, including pole numbers, descriptions and some
information of the locations of splice cases and connections had been shown on
a spreadsheet and may be added to the Town's GIS system.
David Taverner began a discussion of some of the details of the
proposed teleconferencing system using standards H.320, H.323 equipment as
offered by the PictureTel Company. EVA
has the built-in bandwidth to easily support use of basic teleconferencing
equipment and with the introduction of some more sophisticated equipment,
interconnection to outside systems. Using
the more basic equipment, two videoconferencing applications may be connected
by IP address across the EVA system or across the Internet. Interconnecting outside systems requires a specialized
gateway for such connections depending upon where the other user is located
and what connectivity that user might have.
There is an even more sophisticated multiconferencing server unit that
would control interconnection of 28 units in many combinations of connections. David also discussed a streaming
server that could prove useful for some applications.
Following David's presentation of the possibilities of this system,
there was a protracted discussion of how deeply EVA should become involved in
this service. Jean Luker proposed
that, for instance, the School System might purchase a basic card, as well as
EVA and Emory and Henry College to demonstrate the ready interconnectivity
that would become available with such systems.
Eric Schuler stated that the library might employ less sophisticated
equipment that fit its budget, but met the standard and accomplish the same
purpose.
It was decided that several basic units could be purchased by any of
the groups previously mentioned and interconnected as desired and that, as
these nodes proliferated and further sophistication were required, more
equipment could be added when and if necessary. There
being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 2:17 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
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Albert C. Bradley,
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