AVCC General News

Hi all,

This is a brief announcement to advise you of the upcoming NZ eResearch Symposium on the 26th & 27th October. The symposium is geared towards users and facilitators of grid middleware, high performance computing, data infrastructure and advanced video conferencing.

This is a great opportunity to meet some of the leaders of eResearch initiatives within NZ and internationally and to learn about best-practices and share experiences.

For information on the event, please visit https://www.bestgrid.org/nz_eresearch_symposium_2010

AVCC will be combining with the NZ eResearch Symposium for its annual workshop and will be presenting one of the afternoon workshops. More information on the the AVCC afternoon workshop and the eResearch schedule will be available in the coming weeks.

We look forward to see you there.

Regards
AVCC Team

Hi Everyone,

From August the 6th (Friday) - 9th (Monday) the KAREN Video Bridge will be unavailable to use while it is being moved to its permanent hosting environment, before the official launch.

During this move the Bridge and Scopia Desktop will be unavailable for use so please make a note of this in your calendars.

Once the bridge has been moved it will have a new IP address and 210.7.46.20 will no longer be available. We will alert you all of the new address as soon as we have it confirmed.

The service will resume on Tuesday  morning (10th August).

If you would like more information feel free to contact us:

helpdesk [at] avcc [dot] net [dot] nz - 0800 666 889

Regards,

AVCC Team

Hello Everyone,

As you all know, REANNZ have been providing the AARNet Bridge as a supporting service to the video conference trial while we have been testing the Radvision solution.

Recently AARNet have advised REANNZ that as of July 15th, they will no longer be able to offer this resource due to changing internal commitments. This means that as of 16th July, all video conferencing calls requiring a bridge service will need to take place on the Radvision Bridge.

We realise this situation is not ideal as the Radvision Bridge remains in testing, however we will strive to prevent any disruption to members as they move to this service.

If you are holding regular meetings on the AARNet Bridge, our recommendation would be to begin testing on the Radvision Bridge as soon as possible, providing us with more time as to help you through any potential transition issues.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesisitate to contact either AVCC (helpdesk [at] avcc [dot] net [dot] nz, 0800 666 889) or REANNZ (chris [dot] litten [at] reannz [dot] co [dot] nz).

Happy Video Conferencing
AVCC Team

Hello Everyone,

It has been about a year since we last polled the community on their preferred video conferencing solution.

As of today we have launched the same poll again to see what the current snapshot of AVCC visitors are using for their remote collaboration.

To vote on the poll, head to our front page at http://avcc.karen.net.nz and you will find the poll on the right hand side of the screen.

We will leave this up until 26th April, at which time we will post results in a similar fashion to last year.

For those of you who missed last years poll, attached is a pie chart of the results.

As we stated last year, these polls are in no way intended to produce an accurate reflection of video conferencing use in New Zealand's Universities and CRIs, but they do give us an idea of what the visitors to our website are using.

Regards,

AVCC Team

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick announcement to inform you all that the contract for the KAREN Bridge has now been signed by the relevant parties.

With this now done, we will begin working on a timeline for production deployment next week, which will include dates for the 7.1 upgrade, testing, and launch.

More technical details will also follow next week via our technical announcements. If you are not subscribed to these you can sign up on our announcements page.

AVCC and REANNZ would like to thank you again for your continued support and patience during this project.

Regards,

AVCC Team