Global IPv6 Service Launch Event

Launch Event

GÉANT played a key role in the two-day event, which attracted senior European Commission officials and leading experts from the fields of research and business from around the world. The event was designed not only to launch the global IPv6 service but also to demonstrate the benefits of implementing the new Internet protocol, and to highlight different applications which currently make use of it.

National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and GÉANT Demonstration

GÉANT staged its own demonstration which highlighted remote instrumentation using digital video streaming over IPv6. In collaboration with the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the research networks of Internet2 and BELNET, high-resolution digital video images from an intermediate-voltage electron microscope (EM) and a high speed laser scanning multi-photon light microscope (LM) were streamed from UCSD across GÉANT and the collaborating research networks.

These two applications streamed live data, enabling viewers at the event to monitor and manipulate the instruments in real time. Both live data streams depicted biological samples at two different scales of magnification. This demonstration illustrated the work of researchers at NCMIR, who are developing the Telescience Project, which merges technologies for remote instrumentation. Using IPv6 in applications of this kind makes possible remote access to key scientific instruments, thereby facilitating remote microscopy for researchers globally.