vidyo for the lhc status update
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CHEP 2013 – Amsterdam – October 14th – 18th 2013. Vidyo for the LHC Status Update. Thomas Baron – AV and Collaboration services section leader Joao Fernandes – Video conference service manager CERN IT department. Chronology Vidyo at CERN: Use cases S cale and infrastructure - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Vidyo for the LHCStatus Update
CHEP 2013 – Amsterdam – October 14th – 18th 2013
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Thomas Baron – AV and Collaboration services section leaderJoao Fernandes – Video conference service managerCERN IT department
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• Chronology• Vidyo at CERN:
• Use cases• Scale and infrastructure
• Integrations• Reporting & Monitoring• Future plans
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CHRONOLOGY4
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• Long experience with videoconference• VRVS/EVO service since the late 90s• Built on the requirements of HEP community• Tender needed in 2008 following the service change of business
model• Setup of a committee with representatives of major user communities• Establishing requirements• Informal market survey• Only two products could cope with specs• Pilot for 6 months
• Selection of Vidyo in 2011• 1st January 2013: end of EVO desktop system support at CERN
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Chronology
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REMOTE COLLABORATION AT CERN
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• Daily work meetings• Typically involves:
• Meeting Rooms and desktops• Around 20 participants
• Frequency:• 250 per day
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USE CASES
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• Collaboration meetings• Typically involves:
• Meeting Rooms and desktops• Around 100-250 participants
• Frequency:• Around 2-4 per month
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USE CASES
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USE CASES• Outreach events
(masterclasses, virtual visits)
• Typically involves:• Meeting Rooms• Around 10 participants
• Frequency:• Around 1 per week
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• Remote Operation Centers
• Typically involves:• Rooms
• 24/7 connection of all institutes involved in control and monitoring
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USE CASES
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• Remote Teaching• 2 dedicated rooms
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USE CASES
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• Job interviews• Typically involves:
• Desktops
• Point 2 point discussions• Typically involves:
• Desktops• Replaces chat or phone
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OTHER USE CASES
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VIDYO AT CERN:SCALE AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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Vidyo@CERN• Service in production since December 2011• Strong points for CERN
• Multiplatform capabilities• Not only desktops but extension to mobiles and tablets
• Integration with H323/SIP protocols• Extensible (several hundreds in a single meeting)• Natural interactions
• very low latency and excellent lip sync • Good A/V quality and resilience/adaptability to poor
network conditions• Simple interface• Good integration possibilities
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CERN Vidyo Service Scale
• 18000 users• 800-1600 simultaneous connections• Up to 168 simultaneous H323/SIP • 11 Phone access points worldwide• 12 simultaneous recordings• 2 VidyoPanoramas (CERN site)
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CERN Vidyo Worldwide Service Topology
2 Portals
20 Routers
10 GWs
Router
Proxy
CERN
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Vidyo: Usage Evolution
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Vidyo: Usage Evolution
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Vidyo: Usage Evolution
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Usage Evolution• Current peaks
• Simultaneous connections: ~750• Number of people in one meeting: 252• Phone usage: 100k minutes in 1 month• More than 3200 meetings per month• More than 5000 distinct users and 3000 Guests
per month• More than 28000 clients have been installed
(mobile and desktop)• Average of 1 million of vidyo minutes per month
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Support Evolution
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22INTEGRATIONS
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Indico Service
• THE CERN hub for event management• Open Source web application• Meeting and conference organization
(schedule, document management, registration, e-payment, etc.)
• Central repository and long-term archive of event-related documents (slides, videos…)
• Meeting room bookings• Collaboration services bookings• Chat interface
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Indico Integration
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Access from CERN Meeting Rooms
Room VC equipment
ThisPC
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Access from non-CERN H323/SIP
2 IVRs available: CERN and Internet2 (US)
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Integrations• CERN users database
• Using LDAP link option on portal• CERN Indico server
• Direct calls to Vidyo web service APIs• CERN Vidyo dashboard
• Direct SQL queries to CDR DB• Infrastructure monitoring interface
• Added Nagios to all servers• Calls to the CDR and Vidyo DB
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REPORTING AND MONITORING
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• Developed in-House• Live web reporting tool for users and managers• Queries to the Vidyo CDR DB• Using Open source tool to analyze web
accesses• Google Charts API for data display
Reporting
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• Developed in-House• Live web infrastructure monitoring for managers• Open Source monitoring framework
• Agents installed in each system component • Proxy server collecting data
• Collects all system data:• Monitoring agents reports• CDR and Vidyo DB queries for usage• Google charts and maps API for data display
• Using Django web framework
Monitoring
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FUTURE PLANS
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Future Plans• October 2013
• New Unified VidyoDesktop client with integrated chat and more• All Platforms• Up to 16 videos and 2 HD displays
• Additional phone access points in CERN collaborating institutes• Recording feature available to all meetings
• Q4 2013 and beyond• Enrichment of UVD 3.0 with more features
• Ultimate goal to merge VidyoPortal with UVD client• VidyoWeb (in browser client)• New VidyoSharing on Ipads
• Provides whiteboard and mark-up capabilities• Infrastructure virtualisation• Scalability tests to pave the way to possible service extensions• SSO/SAML support• Router Proximity
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Vidyo Service at CERN• info:
• http://cern.ch/vidyo• status page:
• http://avc-dashboard.web.cern.ch/Vidyo• contact:
• [email protected]• [email protected]• [email protected]
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